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Staff need reassurance about winter pressures and not to be held responsible for back

05 Dec 2023
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Sign for NHS Fife premises with blue sky and partial street scene in background. Hospital in NHS at centre of patient information breach

Woman got as far as helping staff deliver patient care, and left with documentation on mor

01 Dec 2023
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Nurses on strike outside Northern General Hospital, Sheffield

The code of practice for nurses who wish to strike, approved by MPs, gives employers discr

30 Nov 2023
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Two nurses look at a laptop screen together amid the bustle of a ward around them

The NMC has recorded a record rise in UK-educated registrants, but there has also been con

30 Nov 2023
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Scene at a busy hospital with medics engaged in various tasks as a trolley with a patient on it is pushed past

Despite ‘political’ recruitment target being met there are nurses on ev

30 Nov 2023
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RCN general secretary looks serious during visit to nurses' picket line outside Leeds General Infirmary in December 2022. Behind her, striking nurses hold signs with messages about staffing and pay. Everyone is dressed for winter weather

Nurses’ leader tells minister profession’s ‘inadequate’ pay is a sexual equality issue thr

29 Nov 2023
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Nurse with her back to the camera appears to feel isolated as union and care sector call on government to act against exploitation of foreign care staff in the UK

Union and care sector providers call on government to prevent unethical international recr

28 Nov 2023
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Photo of nurse staffing rota on ward computer

Scottish Government considering reforms to Agenda for Change contracts, which also include

28 Nov 2023
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NHS pay offer for medical consultants has left nurses feeling more undervalued because it&

27 Nov 2023
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Data given precedence over nursing judgement for strategic staffing decisions, a

24 Nov 2023
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Photo of the back of a nurse's head as she looks down a hospital corridor

Nursing leaders warn of an impending mental health crisis after alarming rise in reports o

24 Nov 2023
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Marsha de Cordova reads out nursing students’ survey responses during a Westminster Hall debate

A student's account of financial struggles was heard by MPs in Westminster Hall; other hea

23 Nov 2023

The smart scrub tunic, in an array of colours with one for nurses and ot

23 Nov 2023

Investigation will also look at claims of sexism and of a culture of fea

22 Nov 2023

Critics point to £1.7bn hole in NHS finances and say lack of new funding will lead to ‘even

22 Nov 2023

Lady Justice Thirlwall, who will lead the Letby inquiry, wants NHS staff to complete an ano

22 Nov 2023

RCN also says the ‘provocative, draconian new law tries to stop nurses from speaking up for

21 Nov 2023

Nurses with long-COVID ‘doubly let down’ as government fails to follow occupational di

20 Nov 2023

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