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Junior doctors’ strike: do nurses have to pick up the workload?

A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to impact nursing workl

04 Jan 2024
Nursing apprentices celebrate as their programme’s first cohort to qualify

Two-year programme was set up by independent healthcare provider to boost nurse numbers, r

04 Jan 2024
NHS staff fork out £46.6m to park at work as fees soar by 830%

The government has been criticised for not fulfilling its pledge to crack down on unfair h

03 Jan 2024
Unions would rally behind nurses sacked under ‘toxic’ new strike law, says TUC

Right to strike will be defended in the face of ‘toxic’ new law on enfo

03 Jan 2024
Letby inquiry: former head of nursing named as core participant

Alison Kelly is one of four former senior managers at the Countess of Chester named as cor

02 Jan 2024
Nurses need to push ministers further over pay, says RCN’s Pat Cullen

RCN general secretary says College would back nurses to strike again fo

02 Jan 2024
The nurses recognised in the 2024 new year honours list

Nursing professionals working in dementia, cancer and learning disability and autism care,

29 Dec 2023
NHS pay: delay to next deal looks likely as minister emphasises need for ‘affordability’

Health and social care secretary tells NHS pay review body to think of ‘affordability’ as

21 Dec 2023
50,000 extra nurses pledge met mostly via overseas recruitment

Only 3,500 of those in government’s target figure came from domestic retention or rec

21 Dec 2023
Doctor who sexually harassed two nurses avoids suspension

An appeal by the GMC failed to gain a suspension of Nour Rezk, with a High Court judg

20 Dec 2023
Boost to nursing workforce as student places double in ten years

1,000 new nurses and midwives are set to qualify in Northern Ireland as student places inc

19 Dec 2023

RCN Scotland says retention strategy has been ‘much slower than needed’ and urges governme

18 Dec 2023

Catherine Hudson was convicted of drugging two patients on a hospital st

14 Dec 2023

Any pay deal decided will not be ready by next April, with health and social care secr

14 Dec 2023

Framework aims to support health trusts to prevent and learn from attacks on nursing and ot

13 Dec 2023

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has issued guidance for nurses on

13 Dec 2023

Child killer did not contest move to strip her of her registration, after perpetrating crim

12 Dec 2023

Checks are legally required when working with vulnerable people but nurs

12 Dec 2023

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