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Nurse suicides, racism, fitness to practise backlog and safeguarding concerns means NMC ne

08 Jul 2024
UK general election: meet the three new nurse MPs

Former nursing leader Pat Cullen, adult nurse Kevin McKenna and mental health nurse Sojan

05 Jul 2024
Test centre fraud: NMC strips seven nurses of their registration

Individuals sat competence tests at overseas centre, but have been removed from Nursi

04 Jul 2024
Racism row forces NMC to appoint second CEO in less than a week

Helen Herniman is now in post as nurse regulator’s chief executive after previous interim

03 Jul 2024

An NHS trust has been accused of attempting to employ ‘highly skilled nursing staff on the

02 Jul 2024
Lib Dem leader’s pledge to improve cancer care and push for emergency health budget

Sir Ed Davey wants to provide a specialist nurse for every cancer patient if his party is

27 Jun 2024
Strike action: longer day shifts tip exhausted theatre nurses over the edge

Longer days shifts compel 50 ‘chronically overworked’ theatre nurses at Guy’s and St Thoma

26 Jun 2024
Speakers and hoodies for nurses in £850,000 gratitude scheme

Trust initiative aims to promote staff well-being, with colleagues able to award ‘hea

21 Jun 2024

Some nursing associate adverts promise band 5 status, clinical leadership and other respon

20 Jun 2024
Ward celebrates 12 months of zero falls using nurse-led improvement strategy

Nursing team eliminated falls with injury through commitment to enhanced bay nursing, chan

19 Jun 2024
Are you working beyond your band? In one part of the UK you can now ask for role review

Nurses can apply for banding review if they believe their role has outgrown the scope and

18 Jun 2024
Online learning sites offer ‘nurse prescribing course’ from £9

Concern over online course that claims to cover highly specialist areas but can be ta

14 Jun 2024

NMC registrant suspended for six months after fitness to practise panel found she did not u

13 Jun 2024

Sole nurse on a night shift at private hospital failed to show leadership in emergency, NMC

12 Jun 2024

The decisive action of final-year nursing student Karen Cochrane after witnessing a heart a

11 Jun 2024

Health service employers’ bills for filling roster gaps rocket as union calls for long-term

06 Jun 2024

Gareth Thomas tells RCN congress that support from sexual health nurse e

05 Jun 2024

NMC fitness to practise panel finds that agency nurse Chidinma Uzoma Onwuasoanya failed to

04 Jun 2024

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