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03 Apr 2023
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A smiling nursing student at the bedside of an older patient: paid placements might encourage more people into the profession, say nurses

Better pay, fee-free training, paid placements and summer holidays for students would boos

31 Mar 2023
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Someone using a lateral flow test for COVID-19: such tests will no longer be needed for symptomatic nurses in England, unless they work with more vulnerable patients, from 1 April

Lateral flow tests will no longer be needed for symptomatic nurses in England unless they

31 Mar 2023
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Nurses in a hospital corridor, a smiling nurse facing the camera

Campaigners want NHS employers to trial a 32-hour, four-day week, which

31 Mar 2023
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Child O’s death was partly due to injuries similar to those caused by a road traffic colli

30 Mar 2023
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt talks about funding for the NHS pay offer to MPs on the Commons treasury committee

Chancellor tells MPs the Treasury has not discussed with health department how NHS pay off

30 Mar 2023
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Photo of someone counting £10 and £20 notes in their wallet: the NMC has frozen its registration fee to £120 for another year

Registration fee will be frozen for ‘as long as possible’ to ensure affordability amid cos

30 Mar 2023
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Striking RCN nurses on a picket line in Cardiff – as RCN continues with pay talks

Bank staff in Wales will be locked out of unconsolidated, one-off payment that formed part

29 Mar 2023
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Student on a placement

Leaked plan reports ‘major concerns’ over reliance on overseas and agency staff and advoca

29 Mar 2023
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Photo of striking nurses with placards alongside pay ballot voting information:

Frustration as RCN website is overwhelmed by nurses trying to vote on the opening day of t

28 Mar 2023
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Strikers at Royal Hallamshire Hospital in Sheffield Picture: John Houlihanv

Union members to have their say on improved offer wrung from ministers

28 Mar 2023
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Photo of sunny swimming pool in Saudi Arabia, just one of the benefits of a nursing role at a new hospital

Staff can apply for posts at a new hospital that promises good money as well as plent

28 Mar 2023

Uptake of financial support scheme for health workers’ dependents lower than pandemic death

27 Mar 2023

Nurse relieved to be granted exemption from tunic-only dress code as she struggled with hot

27 Mar 2023

British Summer Time begins at 1am on Sunday, so check with your employer about pay, and rea

24 Mar 2023

Mental health nurse Michael Turner also locked his colleague in a room and gave her medicat

24 Mar 2023

Nurses voice their anger about former prime minister’s evidence to parliament about pandemi

23 Mar 2023

Senior doctors resisted nurse’s return to her duties unless CCTV cameras were installed at

23 Mar 2023

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