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Scene at a busy hospital with medics engaged in various tasks as a trolley with a patient on it is pushed past

Despite ‘political’ recruitment target being met there are nurses on ev

30 Nov 2023
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RCN general secretary looks serious during visit to nurses' picket line outside Leeds General Infirmary in December 2022. Behind her, striking nurses hold signs with messages about staffing and pay. Everyone is dressed for winter weather

Nurses’ leader tells minister profession’s ‘inadequate’ pay is a sexual equality issue thr

29 Nov 2023
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Nurse with her back to the camera appears to feel isolated as union and care sector call on government to act against exploitation of foreign care staff in the UK

Union and care sector providers call on government to prevent unethical international recr

28 Nov 2023
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Photo of nurse staffing rota on ward computer

Scottish Government considering reforms to Agenda for Change contracts, which also include

28 Nov 2023
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NHS pay offer for medical consultants has left nurses feeling more undervalued because it&

27 Nov 2023
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A mental health nurse taking notes and talking to a patient sitting next to her

RCN says nurses could be at risk of breaching Code, but NHS England den

27 Nov 2023
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Data given precedence over nursing judgement for strategic staffing decisions, a

24 Nov 2023
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Photo of the back of a nurse's head as she looks down a hospital corridor

Nursing leaders warn of an impending mental health crisis after alarming rise in reports o

24 Nov 2023
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Marsha de Cordova reads out nursing students’ survey responses during a Westminster Hall debate

A student's account of financial struggles was heard by MPs in Westminster Hall; other hea

23 Nov 2023
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Two uniforms displayed on mannequins - a female one in royal blue and a male one in deep purple dark purple

The smart scrub tunic, in an array of colours with one for nurses and o

23 Nov 2023
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Nursing and Midwifery Council chief executive Andrea Sutcliffe

Investigation will also look at claims of sexism and of a culture of fe

22 Nov 2023
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Photo of chancellor Jeremy Hunt delivering his autumn statement, illustrating story about no new money for NHS in budget

Critics point to £1.7bn hole in NHS finances and say lack of new funding will lead to ‘eve

22 Nov 2023

Lady Justice Thirlwall, who will lead the Letby inquiry, wants NHS staff to complete an ano

22 Nov 2023

Christine Keenan has told of multiple attacks by patients during an inquiry into mistreatme

21 Nov 2023

RCN also says the ‘provocative, draconian new law tries to stop nurses from speaking up for

21 Nov 2023

Nurses with long-COVID ‘doubly let down’ as government fails to follow occupational di

20 Nov 2023

Nurses with FtP processes pending face continued delays as NMC reports jump in referrals, a

20 Nov 2023

Government consultation on removing trade union regulations denounced as a ‘provocation’, a

17 Nov 2023

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