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Photo of RCN senior nurse Linzi McIlroy with cadets on RCN Prince of Wales Nursing Cadet Scheme

Scheme aims to tackle nursing shortages by offering a chance to study and gain hands-on ex

09 Nov 2023
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A close-up of a hand-made placard held up by a nurse on a picket line saying 'The NHS is flatlining just like our wages'

A comparative report on global healthcare ranks the UK as low for nurses’ wages and hospit

09 Nov 2023
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Photo of the King delivering his speech at State Opening of Parliament

Unions and others also criticise omission of safe staffing legislation, social care and me

08 Nov 2023
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RCN members on strike and holding placards outside Bexley Wing at St James’s Hospital, Leeds

Unions have criticised a government plan to let agency nurses provide strike cover, despit

08 Nov 2023
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Nurses from India and Botswana who have joined the workforce at Royal Stoke University Hospital

An international recruitment programme, which is due to end in December, has seen 352 over

07 Nov 2023
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Nurse wearing gloves holding syringe and taking COVID-19 vaccine from vial

GP nurse tells fitness to practise panel she wanted to save lives rathe

07 Nov 2023
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Photo of nurses striking for better pay, illustrating story about one-off payment for nurses being extended

Nurses delivering NHS services at councils and charities in England will also receive the

06 Nov 2023
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Former prime minister Boris Johnson standing at a podium with Hands Face Space written on it during the COVID-19 pandemic

COVID inquiry reveals government's misogyny and reckless approach to lives of older people

03 Nov 2023
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Graphic with details of Nursing Live

Get your free ticket to our celebration of nurses and nursing – Nursing Live is a unique e

03 Nov 2023
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A nurse monitors a child’s pulse and blood pressure as they lie in a hospital bed

A new standardised early warning system for nurses scores children’s risk of deterioration

03 Nov 2023
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Photo of nurse Jimmy Cooper, still working as he approaches 80

Intensive care nurse Jimmy Cooper, who retired and then returned, says ‘keeping up’ with y

03 Nov 2023
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Two nurses discuss a file that one of them is holding

Nursing shift handovers for such patients are hugely varied, lack struc

02 Nov 2023

New national period and menopause policy follows survey showing many nurses feel unabl

01 Nov 2023

Survey also finds many worried about their mental health, staff shortages and burnout – as

01 Nov 2023

Unified approach on patient information across hospital, community and s

31 Oct 2023

Newly qualified nurses and students among those most at risk from colleagues’ or managers’

30 Oct 2023

Sexual harassment at work has been seen as ‘part of the job’ because most nurses are women,

27 Oct 2023

Health Foundation analysis prompts calls for urgent action after ‘a decade of underinv

27 Oct 2023

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