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Toll of high-pressure court work means many nurses quit – or intend to

Learning disability nurses say demands of Court of Protection work is putting them under i

05 Sep 2024
Nurse used funds from patient activity budget to pay for staff party

Mental health nurse Marcia Harding, who was trying to raise staff moral

04 Sep 2024
Nursing job profiles: nurses won’t know review outcome until 2025

Band 4-6 role profiles review to be published at the start of next year following further

03 Sep 2024
Band 8 revamp boosts incentive for nurses to take the step up

Changes to Agenda for Change band 8 pay scale mean nurses in senior leadership r

02 Sep 2024
Develop your career or help fund your degree with an RCN Foundation grant

RCN Foundation grant applications now open to help fund post-registration qualif

27 Aug 2024
Nurses in Scotland to vote on latest pay offer: will it be enough?

The Scottish Government has made a 5.5% pay offer to NHS healthcare staff on Agenda for Ch

21 Aug 2024

Nurse Ian O’Connor has been handed a 12-month suspension order by the Nursing and Midwifer

20 Aug 2024
Patient deaths remain raised when temporary nurses plug staffing gaps

A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the r

19 Aug 2024
Recruitment crisis: what would make nursing degrees more attractive to students?

UK nursing student enrolments on to nursing degrees courses are down, as a nursing academi

15 Aug 2024
Mary Seacole statue defaced in ‘disgraceful act of vandalism’

Statue of pioneering black nurse Mary Seacole outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London is&nbs

14 Aug 2024
Hospital reviews nursing staff numbers in ED after woman is found dying under her coat

Coroner accepts emergency department (ED) was excessively busy but orde

13 Aug 2024

RCN opens online consultation from today (8 August) until 16 September t

08 Aug 2024

Updated RCN guidance states staff may withdraw care where they feel threatened, but only af

07 Aug 2024

Denise Balanza falsely claimed pay for ten shifts after facing ‘financial pressures’ a Nurs

06 Aug 2024

Terrified Filipino nurses were pelted with stones as they travelled to w

05 Aug 2024

After five-year battle to get their roles moved up from band 5 to 6, job evaluation process

31 Jul 2024

Nursing leaders seek views on backdated Agenda for Change pay award

30 Jul 2024

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