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Chief nurse urges former NHS staff and students to join COVID booster teams

England's chief nurse Ruth May urges former nurses and nursing students to take part in th

17 Dec 2021
Protected nurse title: ‘petition helped put the issue on the agenda’

Despite not hitting its target for online signatures, the petition calling for protection

17 Dec 2021
NMC reports rise in discrimination against black and minority ethnic staff

Nursing and Midwifery Council reports increase in discrimination against black and minorit

17 Dec 2021
Unions join forces to call for judicial review of ‘unfair’ NHS pension charges

Millions of NHS workers have been overcharged for pension contributions since 2015, when r

16 Dec 2021
Nurse struck off for trying to sell cannabis oil to a patient

NMC fitness to practise panel finds agency nurse Eliska Neuzilova used hospital records to

16 Dec 2021
Hundreds of nursing staff who joined NMC’s COVID-19 temporary register never contacted

Nursing and Midwifery Council set up the COVID-19 temporary register in March 2020 so nurs

16 Dec 2021
COVID 19: calls to prioritise front-line staff as supplies of lateral flow tests run low

Nurses have reported difficulties sourcing lateral flow tests since government guidelines

15 Dec 2021
MPs back compulsory COVID-19 vaccinations for front-line NHS nurses

Government’s Plan B restrictions include mandatory vaccinations for nur

15 Dec 2021
Nurses exhausted and critical care close to capacity, matron warns MPs

Critical care matron Elaine Thorpe tells MPs that nurses and healthcare staff are struggli

14 Dec 2021

The government has brought forward the target for giving every adult in England a COVID bo

14 Dec 2021
Body found thought to be missing nursing assistant Petra Srncova

Formal identification of body found in Camberwell, London has not been made, say Metropoli

13 Dec 2021
Loneliness and mental health struggles at Christmas: staff urged to seek support

For nurses, winter pressures, shift schedules and workloads c

13 Dec 2021

Health Education England chief nurse describes increased numbers as a major milestone, but

10 Dec 2021

Strategy to limit spread of Omicron includes mask-wearing in most public indoor venues

10 Dec 2021

Paul Grayson, who worked at the Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield, has been char

09 Dec 2021

A team from Nottingham Trent University is designing safer, more comfort

09 Dec 2021

University’s return to practice course seeks to boost local NHS wor

08 Dec 2021

Occupational health nurse Toyin Oladotun administered COVID-19 vaccine for two months befor

08 Dec 2021

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