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NHS pensions: changes could risk greater opt-out among lowest paid

Rises in contribution rates could prompt greater levels of pension opt-outs and disproport

16 Jan 2024
Crisis in the emergency department: 12-hour trolley waits soar in 2023

Government accused of running NHS emergency departments into the ground as undignified 12-

15 Jan 2024
Fair pay: call for evidence on new separate pay spine for nurses

A new pay spine could reward career progression and address gender disadvantages, says the

12 Jan 2024
70-year-old nurse cycles more than 300km to raise money for Cavell

Ian Clifford, who has been nursing for more than 50 years, cycled around north-east E

12 Jan 2024

Programme’s funding will end in March, which draws fire from nursing leaders who warn that

12 Jan 2024
Undergraduates’ practice learning: NMC to review nursing students’ evolving needs

Nursing and Midwifery Council will examine proposals that will be based on independent res

11 Jan 2024
Delayed discharge figures prompt fresh worries over community nurse staffing shortage

Action on staffing shortage needed urgently as cost of delays tops £1.2

11 Jan 2024

Government says new measures seek to ‘recognise social care as the skilled profession it i

10 Jan 2024
You’re in one of the UK’s most in-demand jobs – but are you feeling valued?

Solving staff shortage key to cutting NHS waiting lists, says jobs expert as union insists

10 Jan 2024
Nursing associates must not be used to strip out the nurse workforce, union warns

Ministers considering the registered band 4 role for the NHS in Wales, but RCN warns they

09 Jan 2024
Nurses to strike over lack of pay parity in Northern Ireland

Nurses will join in day of industrial action over failure to implement

08 Jan 2024
Struck off: the ward manager who claimed band 7 pay rate for working band 5 bank shifts

Ward manager who worked bank shifts at her NHS trust displayed ‘serious dishonesty’ – and

08 Jan 2024

Steven and Stevie-Leigh Jewell qualify as mental health nurses within weeks of each other a

05 Jan 2024

Calls to NHS 24 Mental Health hub regarding psychotic symptoms increased by 100% in two yea

05 Jan 2024

NHS receives calls to reintroduce personal protective equipment as per WHO advice in respon

04 Jan 2024

A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to impact nursing worklo

04 Jan 2024

Two-year programme was set up by independent healthcare provider to boost nurse numbers, re

04 Jan 2024

The government has been criticised for not fulfilling its pledge to crack down on unfair ho

03 Jan 2024

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