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Nurses at Nursing Live, which returns on 23-24 October 2024

Nursing Live takes place at the ACC Liverpool on 23-24 October and will feature inspi

07 Oct 2024
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Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting has opted to announce pay awards to NHS staff as early as possible, after years of delays

Wes Streeting has triggered the NHS pay review process in a bid to get the pay award timin

01 Oct 2024
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Strikes over pay: RCN chief urges government to value nurses as she calls for a higher starting salary for new nurses

Newly qualified nurses should start their careers on band 6 of the Agenda for Change pay s

30 Sep 2024
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Photo of Kevin Fong giving evidence at the COVID-19 inquiry

Former national clinical adviser tells COVID-19 inquiry of the trauma experience

26 Sep 2024
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Nurse understaffing on surgical wards has a negative effect on patient recovery; picture shows a nurse smiling at a woman in a hospital gown who is sitting up in a hospital bed

Nurse understaffing on surgical wards has been linked to a higher risk of pressure ulcers,

25 Sep 2024
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Nursing staff tell RCN 5.5% pay award for the NHS is not enough

Nurses and support staff in England’s NHS tell their union, the RCN, in an online con

23 Sep 2024
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Newly registered nurses (NRNs) are finding it difficult to secure NHS nursing jobs and are

20 Sep 2024
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A total of 23,800 nursing students have been accepted onto courses across the UK, down by one fifth since the peak in 2021. A stressed student looks at some documents

Slump in degree course acceptances prompts call for urgent action on nursing student finan

19 Sep 2024
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Former chief nurse for England Dame Ruth May gave emotionally charged evidence to the COVD inquiry 

Former chief nurse tells COVID-19 inquiry abolition of NHS nursing student bursary was to

17 Sep 2024
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A brass plaque at the entrance to the NMC. An FtP panel finds 77 charges were proved, ten were not proved and on 14 there was no case to answer​​​​​​​

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise (FtP) panel heard nurse X

16 Sep 2024
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Image depicts a nurse sitting on a pile of coins with arrows pointing to a 5% figure in the background. The NHS Pay Review Body (RB) recommendation of a 5.5% pay rise has been accepted by the Welsh Government

The Welsh Government’s acceptance of the Pay Review Body recommendation

11 Sep 2024
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Learning disability nurses say they are struggling to cope with pressures from Court of Protection work

Learning disability nurses say demands of Court of Protection work is putting them under i

05 Sep 2024

RCN Foundation grant applications now open to help fund post-registration qualifi

27 Aug 2024

A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the ra

19 Aug 2024

RCN opens online consultation from today (8 August) until 16 September t

08 Aug 2024

Stark NMC report reveals 25% surge in number of nurses leaving the regis

18 Jul 2024

Nursing Live takes place at the ACC Liverpool on 23-24 October and will celebrate all thing

16 Jul 2024

Nursing union names its next general secretary as Nicola Ranger, who says new government mu

10 Jul 2024

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