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Lucy Letby trial: diary notes show private anguish at what was said of her, court told

Notes contain phrases: ‘I killed them. I don’t know if I killed them. Maybe I did’.

18 Apr 2023
Safe staffing: ward that can’t recruit nursing staff could remain closed for months

Efforts to attract nurses to NHS community hospital inpatient ward fail, forcing patients

18 Apr 2023
Nurses warned they won’t get a better deal after rejecting latest offer

Downing Street rules out reopening talks but nurses’ leader Pat Cullen

17 Apr 2023
Nurses brace to escalate strike action as they tell ministers 5% pay offer is not enough

College names dates for escalation of NHS strike action, with emergency, intensive ca

14 Apr 2023

Voting was open to all college members, even those not on Agenda for Change contracts, but

14 Apr 2023
Nurse ordered to be struck off after refusing to take English test

Colleagues raised concerns that nurse’s poor English put patients at ri

14 Apr 2023
Only hours left for nurses to have their say on revised pay offer

RCN ballot on pay offer for members in England closes at 9am on 14 Apri

13 Apr 2023
Experienced overseas nurses forced to take entry-level roles in NHS

Dashed hopes of career progression mean many with decades of nursing ex

13 Apr 2023

Sam Moynes was collecting her daughter but swung into ‘work mode’ when Geof Turner went in

12 Apr 2023
Big rise in nurses trying to take their own lives due to burnout

Hundreds of nurses were driven to ‘point of no return’ last year due to

12 Apr 2023

Head of nursing education and recruitment at Swansea Bay University Health Board hopes the

12 Apr 2023
Failed pay talks leave nurses no closer to new deal

Nurses in Northern Ireland left in limbo as talks stall and parity with

11 Apr 2023

An NHS trust has received praise from nurses and other staff by providin

11 Apr 2023

Nursing Standard readers share their views on the proposal, with many suggesting the benefi

07 Apr 2023

Choir made up of health staff worldwide, formed to raise spirits amid CO

06 Apr 2023

Caroline Taylforth, who manages Rossendale Nursing Home, had pleaded guilty to two counts o

06 Apr 2023

The promise of sweet treats for performing quick patient discharges drew fire on Twitter, w

06 Apr 2023

Controversial anti-strikes Bill could see nurses face fitness to practis

05 Apr 2023

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