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A group of nurses dressed in various uniforms

As the NHS celebrates its 75th birthday today it faces an urgent need f

05 Jul 2023
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Dedication and commitment of nurses is what sustains the health service, says RCN chi

04 Jul 2023
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Illustration showing nurses choosing shifts from timetable

Care home provider’s flexible policy has given nurses a better work-life balance, as

04 Jul 2023
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Staff at nurses’ station and walking along hospital corridor

Some air skepticism on social media about how expanded undergraduate nursing education can

03 Jul 2023
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Nurses working on a busy ward: the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan has not properly addressed training capacity or retention strategies

Despite pledge for significant increases to nurse training places, the NHS Long Term Workf

30 Jun 2023
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Student accommodation in Stoke on Trent, which will be part rented by NHS nurses

Accommodation is essential to help trust recruit and retain nurses, many of them from over

30 Jun 2023
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Accused nurse’s defence barrister tells trial jury in his closing address there is no evid

29 Jun 2023
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Photo of woman looking concerned about bill, illustrating story about nursing students' financial worries

RCN survey finds two-thirds of nursing students have considered leaving their course due t

29 Jun 2023
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Nurse from Nigeria Virginia Enyidede shows her bus pass app on her phone

Support package is designed to ease foreign nurses’ transition to working and living in th

29 Jun 2023
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RCN members on a picket line on May Day 2023 in Exeter, Devon: nurses have expressed their frustration after a bid to secure further strike action came to an end

Social media posts show a profession let down by punitive trade union laws – and a continu

28 Jun 2023
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Photo of Michael Rosen, who will speak at Nursing Live event

The poet and broadcaster will discuss his near-fatal COVID-19 experience and the care he r

28 Jun 2023
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Court sketch shows Lucy Letby being questioned by her defence counsel

Nurse’s barrister tells murder trial jury the research paper used by the prosecution

28 Jun 2023

Large majority of nurses in RCN ballot voted to push ahead with further walkouts, but numbe

27 Jun 2023

July strikes have been paused as Welsh Government agrees to discuss the non-pay elements of

27 Jun 2023

RCN’s Rose Gallagher also tells UK COVID-19 Inquiry that government failed to consult nurse

27 Jun 2023

Far more nurses educated in the UK move to practise in Australia and New Zealand than the o

26 Jun 2023

Poor working conditions and corridor care are driving some registered nurses to take l

26 Jun 2023

RCN members vent their frustration on social media at papers not received or received too l

23 Jun 2023

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