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UCAS figures show 10% decrease from last year's record-breaking number of candidates

17 Feb 2022
NHS pay ballot: have nurses moved one step closer to taking industrial action?

Will resounding RCN ballot result move nurses one step closer to industrial action vote, a

15 Feb 2022

More than 24,500 apprentices training in 178 different programmes across the NHS in 2020-2

14 Feb 2022
Tax relief for nurses: you may be eligible to claim for washing your uniform at home

Survey finds many staff do not know about tax rebate of £125 a year – a welcome saving in

11 Feb 2022
Lockers, what lockers? How workplaces fail to offer safe storage for your bags and bikes

Hospital workplaces that lack secure lockers or cycle storage mean nurses feel forced to c

09 Feb 2022
COVID vaccines for NHS staff: it’s your duty to be jabbed, chief nurse tells workforce

Chief nurse Ruth May joins Chris Whitty in multidisciplinary appeal to unvaccinated nurses

09 Feb 2022

Suspension of pension abatement rules extended until October in Scotland

08 Feb 2022

Staff recount ‘embarrassing’ situations that could be avoided, and the RCN joins the call

07 Feb 2022
Pandemic exposed over-stretched health and care system’s nursing shortage

Nurse workforce had no spare capacity even before COVID-19 – which is

07 Feb 2022
Sheffield theatre nurse pleads guilty to 17 sexual offences, but denies a further three

Paul Grayson admitted charges including sexual assault and voyeurism against patients and

04 Feb 2022
Lack of on-site changing forces nurses to wash uniforms at home despite infection risk

A study reveals that nurses and healthcare staff are unable to wash their uniforms to NHS

03 Feb 2022
MMR vaccine: call for nurse-led catch-up drive as uptake among children lowest in decade

RCN also wants public education to tackle vaccine hesitancy among parents as more than one

02 Feb 2022

Nurses react to report on Downing St parties, saying Boris Johnson and h

02 Feb 2022

Nursing staff penalised by COVID-19 vaccine mandate should get compensation and their

01 Feb 2022

Milder Omicron and worries over staff shortage convince government to pu

31 Jan 2022

Nurses facing torment of fitness to practise proceedings can feel left in limbo for years b

27 Jan 2022

Analysis by Nursing Standard shows dramatic disparity when comparing cur

27 Jan 2022

Nursing and Midwifery Council removed nurses who have misled the regulator in past five yea

25 Jan 2022

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