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Pensive nurse using her phone. Inset, mugshot of serial killer nurse, Lucy Letby, whose crimes are cited as reasons why nurses seek mental health helpline’s support

Mental health helpline takes record number of nurse calls with bullying at work, cost of l

12 Mar 2024
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A line of people with suitcases queuing to show their documents at an airport

Huge jump in nurses quitting to seek jobs in Australia, New Zealand and

11 Mar 2024
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Photo of nurses on busy ward, illustrating story about nurse pay and retention

Nuffield Trust also highlights a nurse-doctor pay gap that is one of the largest in econom

08 Mar 2024
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Photo of nurses on busy ward, illustrating story about NHS Staff Survey results

Latest survey reveals under-staffing, burnout, time pressures, sexual harassment and dissa

07 Mar 2024
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt holding up the red budget briefcase

NHS Pay Review Body is told budgets on spending are ‘extremely constrai

06 Mar 2024
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Nurses calling for action by Somerset NHS Foundation Trust on parking issues facing staff

Call for action letter signed by 2,000 staff and local residents, with

05 Mar 2024
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RCN Scotland members protesting over pay and staffing, illustrating story about benefits for nurses under pay agreement

A 30-minute reduction in the working week for NHS nurses will be implemented in April 2024

04 Mar 2024
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NMC headquarters brass plaque showing its name and logo. A nurse who looked up medical records with no legitimate reason was suspended by the regulator

School nurse with a history of inappropriately accessing records will be unable to practis

01 Mar 2024
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Image from NHS trust's anti-violence campaign, featuring nurse Yvonne Ihekwoaba

Essex NHS trust's No Abuse, No Excuse campaign includes body cameras and red card bans to

28 Feb 2024
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Nurse Sharon Woods with Caroline Swan, whose life she helped to save following a stroke

Nurse Sharon Woods acted swiftly when her stroke ward colleague Caroline Swan experienced

26 Feb 2024
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Joanne Froggatt in the tv drama Breathtaking

ITV series described on social media as an authentic depiction of the p

22 Feb 2024
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Photo of Martha Mills, who died from sepsis in 2021. Failures in her care inspired Martha's rule, which will be rolled out in April 2024.

Nurses will be part of independent critical care teams patients and families can contact f

21 Feb 2024

Nursing regulator said 48 people under suspicion of gaining fraudulent access to the UK reg

20 Feb 2024

Three quarters of survey respondents did not raise a race concern as they believe nothing w

19 Feb 2024

Predictable rosters and sensitively spaced days off boost staff retention and morale – but

16 Feb 2024

NMC fitness to practise panel hears of mental health nurse Declan Carroll’s behaviour towar

15 Feb 2024

CQC says failures included inadequate nurse staffing levels and compromi

14 Feb 2024

Nursing leaders call on government to act over surgeries’ salary increases, as almost half

13 Feb 2024

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