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RCN president election: college members have been urged to use their vote

Four nurse candidates in the running for key figurehead role designed to speak up for nurs

21 Nov 2022
Health secretary labelled ‘deluded’ for his lack of urgency over nurse pay talks

Unions respond to Steve Barclay’s BBC interview and his ‘inability to see the urgency of t

21 Nov 2022
Nurses’ strike plans suspended after pay talks get off to a ‘positive’ start in Scotland

Union and Scottish ministers enter negotiations to avert industrial action in Scotland's N

21 Nov 2022
Lucy Letby: wire may have caused significant bleed before Child E’s death, trial hears

A consultant has ruled out possibility of ‘innocent explanation’ for Child E’s gastrointes

18 Nov 2022

Acute care nurse asks followers for top tips as he prepares to take a third-year student u

18 Nov 2022
Autumn budget: failure to address nurses’ pay crisis prompts five-day warning from RCN

RCN will announce strike dates and locations if government fails to come to the table for

17 Nov 2022
Unions slam call for NHS body to consider UK debt in 2023 pay award

Health and social care secretary is ‘in denial’ of unrest over nurses’ current pay offer,

17 Nov 2022

High-pressured workplace stress, as well as unkindness and incivility, can lead to loss of

17 Nov 2022
Inflation-busting pay rise for nurses would come at a cost to the wider NHS – minister

Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay brands nurses’ pay demand unrealistic as he

16 Nov 2022
Nurses face real-terms pay cut of at least £1,500 next year, says TUC

Prime minister Rishi Sunak told to stick to pledge to fund services and drop plans for mer

16 Nov 2022

Manchester Crown Court hears of neonatal nurse’s WhatsApp conversation with a colleague on

15 Nov 2022
Nurses’ well-being worries NHS senior managers as they brace for winter of discontent

Nurses’ strikes, low morale and short-staffing are top of health service leaders’ long lis

15 Nov 2022

Nurses who ‘depart from established procedures’ during a challenging winter are unlikely to

15 Nov 2022

Steve Barclay says he is ‘saddened’ by nurses choosing to vote for strike action, and adds

14 Nov 2022

The Amin Abdullah RCN Foundation grant will make annual awards of up to £1,000 to nurse-led

14 Nov 2022

Employers forced to flout spending limits on fees for agency nurses at a time when minister

11 Nov 2022

Hospital staff shortages have curtailed or delayed placements, while students at Birmingham

11 Nov 2022

More than 96% of members who voted at one trust responded in favour of industrial action, b

10 Nov 2022

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