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NHS 75: vital role of nurses since the birth of the health service

As the NHS celebrates its 75th birthday today it faces an urgent need f

05 Jul 2023
NHS at 75: ‘nurses will fight for its survival – but they and it deserve more’

Dedication and commitment of nurses is what sustains the health service, says RCN chi

04 Jul 2023

Care home provider’s flexible policy has given nurses a better work-life balance, as

04 Jul 2023
‘Where are the magic new staff coming from?’: nurses react to NHS workforce plan

Some air skepticism on social media about how expanded undergraduate nursing education can

03 Jul 2023
NHS workforce plan: can it boost nurse numbers without proper focus on retention?

Despite pledge for significant increases to nurse training places, the NHS Long Term Workf

30 Jun 2023
How empty student accommodation is being turned over for use by NHS nurses

Accommodation is essential to help trust recruit and retain nurses, many of them from over

30 Jun 2023
Lucy Letby: claim of targeted attack on baby boy ‘completely unrealistic’

Accused nurse’s defence barrister tells trial jury in his closing address there is no evid

29 Jun 2023

RCN survey finds two-thirds of nursing students have considered leaving their course due t

29 Jun 2023
Welcome to the UK: trusts join forces to help nurses from overseas settle in

Support package is designed to ease foreign nurses’ transition to working and living in th

29 Jun 2023
‘Shocked, angry and deflated’: nurses react to ballot after losing strike mandate

Social media posts show a profession let down by punitive trade union laws – and a continu

28 Jun 2023

The poet and broadcaster will discuss his near-fatal COVID-19 experience and the care he r

28 Jun 2023
Lucy Letby: defence sums up by rounding on ‘poor’ scientific evidence

Nurse’s barrister tells murder trial jury the research paper used by the prosecution

28 Jun 2023

Large majority of nurses in RCN ballot voted to push ahead with further walkouts, but numbe

27 Jun 2023

July strikes have been paused as Welsh Government agrees to discuss the non-pay elements of

27 Jun 2023

RCN’s Rose Gallagher also tells UK COVID-19 Inquiry that government failed to consult nurse

27 Jun 2023

Far more nurses educated in the UK move to practise in Australia and New Zealand than the o

26 Jun 2023

Poor working conditions and corridor care are driving some registered nurses to take l

26 Jun 2023

RCN members vent their frustration on social media at papers not received or received too l

23 Jun 2023

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