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Deputy charge nurse Mark Harding with WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the Geneva event

Choir made up of health staff worldwide, formed to raise spirits amid C

06 Apr 2023
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Nurse Lucy Letby, who denies multiple counts of murder and attempted murder of infants in her care

Neonatal nurse is accused of attempting to murder baby boy – her last of her 17 alleged vi

04 Apr 2023
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Child O’s death was partly due to injuries similar to those caused by a road traffic colli

30 Mar 2023
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Chancellor Jeremy Hunt talks about funding for the NHS pay offer to MPs on the Commons treasury committee

Chancellor tells MPs the Treasury has not discussed with health department how NHS pay off

30 Mar 2023
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Photo of someone counting £10 and £20 notes in their wallet: the NMC has frozen its registration fee to £120 for another year

Registration fee will be frozen for ‘as long as possible’ to ensure affordability amid cos

30 Mar 2023
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Photo of striking nurses with placards alongside pay ballot voting information:

Frustration as RCN website is overwhelmed by nurses trying to vote on the opening day of t

28 Mar 2023
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Nurses voice their anger about former prime minister’s evidence to parliament about pandem

23 Mar 2023
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Photo of nurse Lucy Letby who is on trial: she is reported to have described caring for infants who did not require critical care as ‘boring’, her murder trial was told

A senior nurse has said that Lucy Letby, who is on trial for murder, was reluctant to work

21 Mar 2023
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Health and social care secretary Steve Barclay says funding for nurse pay offer will be ‘a matter for the chancellor’

Government will not increase its spring budget to pay for it, raising concerns the money w

17 Mar 2023
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Smiling woman holds baby’s feet as she gazes at the infant – IFS research found female nurses in more male teams take less maternity leave, and career progression slows after motherhood

Female nurses’ careers slow once they become mothers.

06 Mar 2023
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RCN Nurse of the Year 2022 Alison Bunce (centre), with RCN general secretary Pat ​Cullen (left) and comedian Judi Love, who hosted the awards ceremony

Nominations for the UK’s top nursing awards are now being accepted, wit

27 Feb 2023
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Nurse Michelle Cox, who won a tribunal case against NHS England on the grounds of discrimination

Judgement finds against NHS England after nurse Michelle Cox experienced racism from her t

24 Feb 2023

Ms Letby appears visibly upset as doctor recounts condition of a twin boy born prematurely,

17 Feb 2023

Parliamentary group says failure to offer nurses support and compensation, and provide fund

14 Feb 2023

Nurses and students debate whether replacing practice hours threshold with competency syste

10 Feb 2023

Amendments to NMC education programme standards include more simulated practice learning, a

24 Jan 2023

Nurses at trusts across England brave freezing conditions to stand on pi

18 Jan 2023

Nursing degree courses accepted 3,200 fewer students in 2022, a drop bla

08 Dec 2022

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