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Five nursing students stand in semi-circle. They watch as one handles IV line – NMC is to review undergraduates clinical learning requirements

Nursing and Midwifery Council will examine proposals that will be based on independent res

11 Jan 2024
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A nurse writes in a grid on a hospital white board with the word 'discharge' in capital letters above it

Action on staffing shortage needed urgently as cost of delays tops £1.2

11 Jan 2024
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Solving staff shortage key to cutting NHS waiting lists, says jobs expert as union insists

10 Jan 2024
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Nursing associate works with seated patient's IV line – the band 4 role is being considered for Wales’s NHS

Ministers considering the registered band 4 role for the NHS in Wales, but RCN warns they

09 Jan 2024
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Striking nurses at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital in January 2020

Nurses will join in day of industrial action over failure to implement

08 Jan 2024
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Ward manager who worked bank shifts at her NHS trust displayed ‘serious dishonesty’ – and

08 Jan 2024
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A nurse wearing a blue face masks talks to a patient who is sitting up and is also wearing a face mask

NHS receives calls to reintroduce personal protective equipment as per WHO advice in respo

04 Jan 2024
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Doctors on a picket line at St Thomas’ Hospital in London

A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to impact nursing workl

04 Jan 2024
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Two-year programme was set up by independent healthcare provider to boost nurse numbers, r

04 Jan 2024
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A nurse in uniform using a car park ticket machine

The government has been criticised for not fulfilling its pledge to crack down on unfair h

03 Jan 2024
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Striking nurses in Harrogate in May 2023

Right to strike will be defended in the face of ‘toxic’ new law on enfo

03 Jan 2024
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Alison Kelly, former head of nursing at the Countess of Chester Hospital (left) and Lucy Letby

Alison Kelly is one of four former senior managers at the Countess of Chester named as cor

02 Jan 2024

RCN general secretary says College would back nurses to strike again for

02 Jan 2024

Nursing professionals working in dementia, cancer and learning disability and autism care,

29 Dec 2023

Health and social care secretary tells NHS pay review body to think of ‘affordability’ as u

21 Dec 2023

Only 3,500 of those in government’s target figure came from domestic retention or recr

21 Dec 2023

An appeal by the GMC failed to gain a suspension of Nour Rezk, with a High Court judge

20 Dec 2023

1,000 new nurses and midwives are set to qualify in Northern Ireland as student places incr

19 Dec 2023

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