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NHS pay review body branded 'outdated' as unions asked for feedback

NHS pay body exists in a vacuum, no longer works and risks disastrous r

14 Jun 2023
800 extra overseas recruits fail to reverse NHS workforce decline

4,000+ nursing posts are still vacant despite NHS Scotland recruiting additional health st

14 Jun 2023
Lost nursing student places saved by outside funding

Dublin pledges backing for 200 Northern Ireland university places in de

13 Jun 2023

Glasgow Royal Infirmary brings back penalties for parking in the patient zone for longer t

13 Jun 2023
NHS staffing crisis is harming care and creating tensions with patients, survey suggests

Nursing staff describe how inadequate pay and poor staff retention combine to create high-

13 Jun 2023
Nurses fear speaking up at work could put their jobs in jeopardy

More nurses feel raising concerns at work is risky and futile, accordin

12 Jun 2023
Pay is unfinished business, insists Pat Cullen in revealing podcast interview

RCN leader admits winning a further strike mandate will be a ‘tight call’, and opens up ab

12 Jun 2023
House of Lords votes to protect nurses’ jobs from ‘bad’ anti-strikes bill

The House of Lords voted in an amendment to the government’s strikes bill restoring nurses

09 Jun 2023

Think tank sets out measures to address the ‘deep workforce crisis’ in the NHS, which also

09 Jun 2023

Lucy also completed her nurse training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, so its chapel was

09 Jun 2023
We can’t afford to recruit: major London trust imposes jobs freeze as it battles debt

Imperial NHS trust in London – where spending in agency and bank staff topped £89 million

08 Jun 2023
Lucy Letby denies ‘rooting in bin’ for resuscitation notes for baby boy

A paper towel used to record the drugs given to Child M, who the nurse is alleged to

08 Jun 2023

Online petition calls for all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts to get the full 2022

08 Jun 2023

Don’t be bullied back to work, RCN leader tells nurses in Wales as they return to picket li

07 Jun 2023

Cases of long-COVID have led to extended periods of absence for many NHS

07 Jun 2023

The accused nurse agrees that unprescribed insulin was deliberately added to intravenous fl

06 Jun 2023

RCN members are staging a 12-hour walkout after rejecting the Welsh Government’s latest pay

06 Jun 2023

NHS nursing staff are battling for better pay and working conditions, with unions in each p

06 Jun 2023

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