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Flexible nursing degree: montage of woman in four contexts – home learning, parenting, on clinical placement and attending university lecture

A new flexible nursing degree enables students to fit their studies and clinical placement

22 Apr 2025
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UK nurse emigration: nurse carrying a suitcase stands on top of a globe with international destinations marked with pins

Number of nurses in the UK hoping to move abroad to work more than doubled in one year.

25 Mar 2025
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Nursing school closures: students attending a lecture. UK nursing school closures come despite chronic nursing shortage

University nursing school closures highlight the pressures on undergraduate nurse educatio

25 Feb 2025
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Remote nurse prescribing: a nurse providing patient care remotely sits, wearing a headset with a microphone, as she works on a desktop computer

A nurse has been struck off by a Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) fitness to practise p

28 Jan 2025
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Nurse regulator role: illustration of a large hand holding a magnifying glass above a nurse caught in a spotlight, suggesting the NMC scrutinising what nurses do

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has been told it cannot act like the ‘nurse police’ and

10 Dec 2024
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The RCN hs proposed newly registered nurses start on Band 6.  Illustration of a nurse moving from Band 5 to Band 6

The RCN has proposed that newly registered nurses (NRNs) start their NHS careers on band 6

22 Oct 2024
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A nurse holds up her hands showing she wants something to stop. Nurses have a duty of care to patients but also need to consider their own safety

After riots across the UK in summer, the RCN updated guidance to remind nurses of the circ

23 Sep 2024
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Nurse choosing extra shifts

Nursing staff are being asked to do extra shifts to help clear the NHS backlog in England,

16 Aug 2024
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Illustration showing an outstretched hand catching three floating squares bearing a heart design, suggesting a show of appreciation

Staff at an NHS trust can award colleagues ‘hearts’ they can exchange for gifts

19 Jul 2024
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Revision of Agenda for Change bands is long overdue, but the jury is out on whether change

21 Jun 2024
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Illustration of weighing sometimes conflicting interests in nursing care of patient choice against harm prevention shows scales with one frowny face on one side outweighed by multiple, smaller smiley faces

Offering care home residents caffeine-free drinks as default helped reduce falls – as well

17 May 2024
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Nursing’s regulator has pledged millions of pounds to resolve its growing FtP investigatio

18 Apr 2024

A nurse suspended for inappropriate conduct was under stress due to personal issues.

26 Mar 2024

Agenda for Change doesn’t reflect the complexity of nursing roles, say unions.

23 Feb 2024

The historic decision to strike in December 2022 led to a hard-won pay deal, but nurses say

14 Dec 2023

Essential paperwork that’s standardised across healthcare settings could make information-s

22 Nov 2023

Instant messaging makes communication so seamless it might be easy to breach patient confid

24 Aug 2023

Staff shortages means nurses find themselves being redeployed to unfamiliar wards or depart

21 Jun 2023

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