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UCAS website

UCAS figures show rise since last year, but college calls for more

28 Nov 2019
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Boris Johnson sits around a table talking to nurses at West Cornwall Hospital

Staff at West Cornwall Hospital grill prime minister on financial hardship and nurse

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration of a nurse writing on a staff rota board, with healthcare assistant and nurse numbers recorded

Health Foundation says HCAs and nursing associates are filling recruitm

28 Nov 2019
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Nurses looking for a job

RCN employment survey finds pressures and lack of management support are often to blame

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration showing a clockface with a person resting on one of the hands. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation supports nurses napping on breaks during long shifts as a safeguarding principle.

Trust encourages nurses to treat breaks as critical rest time, particularly on n

26 Nov 2019
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Scales of justice in the foreground, a gavel in the background

Nurse Colleridge Bessong accuses Pennine Care Trust over service user’s violent assault&nb

26 Nov 2019
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Prime minister Boris Johnson speaks at a podium, holding aloft the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto

Conservatives have resisted calls to reinstate the nursing student bursary in England

25 Nov 2019
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Brittany McArthur

Brittany McArthur recognised by university for demonstrating compa

25 Nov 2019
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Aileen Coomber

Aileen Coomber, RCNi’s 2017 Bank Nurse award winner, was part of the NHS at 70 celebration

22 Nov 2019
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young woman sits a written test

Regulator plans to abolish time limit on nursing and midwifery qualifications taken in Eng

21 Nov 2019
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St Bernards Hospital

West London NHS Trust admits nurse sustained back injury due to defective c

20 Nov 2019
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RCN activists protest against the removal of the nursing bursary. They are holding banners saying '#BursaryorBust'

Parties’ parliamentary candidates compete for nurses’ votes ahead of 2019 general ele

20 Nov 2019

Fellow university students and local nursing staff offer support af

19 Nov 2019

Jean Higgins ran an early nurse recruitment agency set up for the benefit of the NHS

15 Nov 2019

Inspirational leader Jean Saunders praised for improving healthcare access for asylum

15 Nov 2019

Walkout will be the first in RCN history – as Unison members plan industrial acti

14 Nov 2019

Nursing teams keep patients and each other safe during flood crisis

12 Nov 2019

Hundreds of messages of condolence left for nurse described as passionate about mental

12 Nov 2019

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