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NHS nurses taking strike action in London, an online petition calls for all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts to get the full government pay deal

Online petition calls for all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts to get the full 202

08 Jun 2023
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Striking nurses holding strike banners and RCN leader Pat Cullen on picket line in Cardiff

Don’t be bullied back to work, RCN leader tells nurses in Wales as they return to picket l

07 Jun 2023
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Staff at a hospital emergency department during the pandemic

Cases of long-COVID have led to extended periods of absence for many NH

07 Jun 2023
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The accused nurse agrees that unprescribed insulin was deliberately added to intravenous f

06 Jun 2023
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Photo of nurses on the picket line in Cardiff

RCN members are staging a 12-hour walkout after rejecting the Welsh Government’s latest pa

06 Jun 2023
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Line of nurses on strike in RCN pay dispute hold protest banner outside Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham

NHS nursing staff are battling for better pay and working conditions, with unions in each

06 Jun 2023
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Pat Cullen with striking nurses at St Thomas’ Hospital, London in December 2022

Nursing is treated differently in ‘bullyish’ negotiations because profession is 90% female

06 Jun 2023
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RCN general secretary looking serious – she warns of collapse in health and care services

As government’s NHS workforce plan continues to stall, nurses’ leader issues grave warning

05 Jun 2023
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NHS workforce plan to plug staffing gap with fast-track training could backfire with burno

02 Jun 2023
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Photo of Unite members striking outside Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust in London

Eligible staff on Agenda for Change contracts get 5% pay rise, while nurse members of Unit

01 Jun 2023
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Nurses' station of a busy hospital ward

A workforce emergency remains despite a rise in the number of nurses in

01 Jun 2023
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A nurse in Nigeria where there have been reports of healthcare services struggling due to international recruitment of nursing staff

UK should suspend recruitment from vulnerable countries and ‘move towards self-sufficiency

31 May 2023

Proposal to curtail three-year nursing courses seen as risky move that r

31 May 2023

Despite constructive meeting with RCN’s Pat Cullen last week, health sec

30 May 2023

Nurses discuss potential dangers and risk of burnout when they are forced to cover for staf

30 May 2023

A far cry from Call the Midwife, but just as uplifting, a new BBC fly-on-the-wall documenta

26 May 2023

Unite members to walk out at Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust as union puts pressu

26 May 2023

Trust says it is making positive changes after inspectors raised concern

26 May 2023

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