Editorial

NHS bank pay and jobs freezes: how are spending squeezes affecting your work?

Recruitment freezes in the NHS, and plans by some employers to suppress NHS bank nurse spe

29 May 2025
17 Apr 2025
Datix denial: when safety incidents are reported in your workplace, is anyone listening?

Nurses say the safety incident reporting system Datix is widely misused by senior managers

26 Mar 2025
What’s in the name ‘nurse’? When it comes to professional respect, everything actually

‘Nurse’ title can be, and frequently is, used in job titles where the individual is not a

26 Feb 2025
Whistleblowers feel forced to quit because they become targets of NMC referral threats

Nurses who speak out about care concerns too often find managers use the threat of referra

29 Jan 2025
The public understands nurses’ value – pay needs to catch up

Nursing Standard’s annual investigation into gifts given to NHS nursing staff attests to t

20 Dec 2024
NHS pay, who negotiates it and why recent awards prove ‘no change’ is not an option

Nursing unions RCN, Unison and Unite have told England’s health and social care secretary

28 Nov 2024
Misleading job titles: 3 reasons we must protect the word ‘nurse’

The title of nurse is being misused in proliferating job titles in the NHS.

29 Sep 2024

NHS nursing staff have been offered a 5.5% pay award for 2024-25. The RCN, along with

23 Aug 2024
Why NMC must stop short-changing you and transform its own fitness to practise – fast

Nurse regulator’s reputation has taken a bruising after independent Afzal review found org

23 Jul 2024
NHS pay award: why it must be top of the next health and care secretary’s agenda

NHS pay award for 2024/25 is running late, so whichever party wins the election needs to m

24 Jun 2024
Why this general election matters to every nurse in the UK

Nurses in the NHS and social care know the impact politicians’ promises (and whether they

28 May 2024

With bitesize modules, enhanced search tools and a learning dashboard to track progress, RC

21 Apr 2024
31 Mar 2024

Writing up notes is a fundamental nursing task, and getting it wrong can become a fitness t

22 Mar 2024

If behaviour intimidates, belittles or offends it should not be happening – and should not

27 Feb 2024

NMC requirements can be daunting, but we have webinars, events, modules and a vast array of

24 Jan 2024

In the build-up to the UK’s next general election, daily safety breaches in the NHS need to

02 Jan 2024

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