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End fees, pay for placements and give students holidays: a nurse-led recruitment plan

Better pay, fee-free training, paid placements and summer holidays for students would boos

31 Mar 2023
Free symptomatic COVID-19 testing in hospitals and care homes set to end from 1 April

Lateral flow tests will no longer be needed for symptomatic nurses in England unless they

31 Mar 2023

Tribunal rejects six of Dave Dawes’ complaints against the college, which followed his sus

31 Mar 2023
Nurse retention: will 4-day week on same pay prevent staff quitting NHS?

Campaigners want NHS employers to trial a 32-hour, four-day week, which

31 Mar 2023
Lucy Letby trial: baby had extensive haemorrhaging from ‘impact-type’ injuries to liver

Child O’s death was partly due to injuries similar to those caused by a road traffic colli

30 Mar 2023
NHS nurse pay offer: key talks on how to fund award haven’t even started yet

Chancellor tells MPs the Treasury has not discussed with health department how NHS pay off

30 Mar 2023
NMC keeps registration fee at £120 to ensure affordability

Registration fee will be frozen for ‘as long as possible’ to ensure affordability amid cos

30 Mar 2023
NHS pay rise: bank nurses will lose out on some of the money to be paid in salaries deal

Bank staff in Wales will be locked out of unconsolidated, one-off payment that formed part

29 Mar 2023
Staffing crisis: NHS needs to recruit 23,000 more nurses per year, says leaked report

Leaked plan reports ‘major concerns’ over reliance on overseas and agency staff and advoca

29 Mar 2023
Nurses report trouble voting on pay deal as they ‘break the internet'

Frustration as RCN website is overwhelmed by nurses trying to vote on the opening day of t

28 Mar 2023
Voting opens: have your say on nurses' new pay offer

Union members to have their say on improved offer wrung from ministers

28 Mar 2023

Staff can apply for posts at a new hospital that promises good money as well as plent

28 Mar 2023

Uptake of financial support scheme for health workers’ dependents lower than pandemic death

27 Mar 2023

Nurse relieved to be granted exemption from tunic-only dress code as she struggled with hot

27 Mar 2023

British Summer Time begins at 1am on Sunday, so check with your employer about pay, and rea

24 Mar 2023

Mental health nurse Michael Turner also locked his colleague in a room and gave her medicat

24 Mar 2023

The impact of menopause on mental health is being underestimated with sometimes life-threat

24 Mar 2023

Nurses voice their anger about former prime minister’s evidence to parliament about pandemi

23 Mar 2023

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