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RCN Nursing Awards 2022, a chance to showcase practice that makes a difference, now open

Categories cover the diversity of nursing, with RCN Nurse of the Year t

24 Jan 2022
Mental health: helpline’s highest number of calls from nurses

A fifth of more than 800 calls to Our Frontline support service made during pandemic

24 Jan 2022
NHS staff absence and critical COVID cases down, but do you feel pressure lifting yet?

Nurses remain under intense pressure with absence from work still high, and no prospect of

20 Jan 2022
One-off pay rise for ‘superhuman efforts’ of Northern Ireland nurses

Additional payment for pandemic work is welcomed by staff, but the RCN wants to see ‘meani

20 Jan 2022
Nurse tells of ‘insurmountable’ pressure to get jab or lose job

From 1 April, all patient-facing NHS staff must have had both COVID-19 vaccine doses

19 Jan 2022
Compulsory COVID-19 jabs for nurses: stark rules on redeployment or dismissal set out

NHS England sets out guidance for employers to redeploy or fire patient

18 Jan 2022

College says Scottish Government announcement implies students on clinical placements

17 Jan 2022
Shorter self-isolation time gets you back to work sooner – but is it worth extra risk?

COVID-19 rule change designed to ease nurse staffing crisis as NHS and social care service

17 Jan 2022

Isolation period for people testing positive in England reduced to five days from 17 Janua

13 Jan 2022
Mandatory vaccinations for nurses would be ‘sabotage’ amid staffing pressures, says RCN

College joins demands for delay in making COVID-19 vaccinations compulsory for front-line

13 Jan 2022
Struck off: mental health crisis nurse’s actions contributed to woman’s death, said NMC

Patrick McKee’s actions contributed to death of Hull 22-year-old Sally Mays, Nursing and M

12 Jan 2022
Military medics plug NHS staffing gaps in COVID-hit hospitals

COVID-related nursing staff absence – against backdrop of chronic nurse shortage – forces

07 Jan 2022

Unions say there is ‘something fundamentally wrong with British society’ following the publ

07 Jan 2022

Christian nurse was treated unfairly by Croydon NHS trust when she felt forced to quit her

06 Jan 2022

Lack of government plan to tackle record waiting lists, says former health secretary

06 Jan 2022

Healthcare staff, asymptomatic despite positive lateral flow test, to no longer wait for of

05 Jan 2022

National vaccine workforce lead and nursing lecturer who developed suicide prevention progr

31 Dec 2021

In England the number of days fully-vaccinated people who have tested positive need to stay

22 Dec 2021

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