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Could breaking away from Agenda for Change really unblock your access to higher pay?

Opinion divided over whether breaking away from AfC banding would give nurses access to hi

19 Jan 2024
Struck off: care home deputy manager who made false claims about dying patient’s care

Hidden camera showed care home resident died distressed and alone despite home’s&nbsp

18 Jan 2024
Pay parity and safe staffing: nurses' views from the picket lines

Nurses in Northern Ireland took to picket lines today amid failure

18 Jan 2024
QNI grant will help community nurses severely affected by UK flooding

Queen’s Nursing Institute grants available to community nurses after storms made it diffic

17 Jan 2024
Sepsis death: district nurse shortage could cost more lives, coroner warns minister

District nurse staffing found to be factor in death of woman with sacral ulcer, promp

16 Jan 2024
NHS pensions: changes could risk greater opt-out among lowest paid

Rises in contribution rates could prompt greater levels of pension opt-outs and disproport

16 Jan 2024
Fair pay: call for evidence on new separate pay spine for nurses

A new pay spine could reward career progression and address gender disadvantages, says the

12 Jan 2024
70-year-old nurse cycles more than 300km to raise money for Cavell

Ian Clifford, who has been nursing for more than 50 years, cycled around north-east E

12 Jan 2024

Programme’s funding will end in March, which draws fire from nursing leaders who warn that

12 Jan 2024
Undergraduates’ practice learning: NMC to review nursing students’ evolving needs

Nursing and Midwifery Council will examine proposals that will be based on independent res

11 Jan 2024
Delayed discharge figures prompt fresh worries over community nurse staffing shortage

Action on staffing shortage needed urgently as cost of delays tops £1.2

11 Jan 2024

Government says new measures seek to ‘recognise social care as the skilled profession it i

10 Jan 2024

Solving staff shortage key to cutting NHS waiting lists, says jobs expert as union insists

10 Jan 2024

Ministers considering the registered band 4 role for the NHS in Wales, but RCN warns they m

09 Jan 2024

Nurses will join in day of industrial action over failure to implement a

08 Jan 2024

Ward manager who worked bank shifts at her NHS trust displayed ‘serious dishonesty’ – and i

08 Jan 2024

Calls to NHS 24 Mental Health hub regarding psychotic symptoms increased by 100% in two yea

05 Jan 2024

NHS receives calls to reintroduce personal protective equipment as per WHO advice in respon

04 Jan 2024

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