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Strikes (Minimum Service Levels Act) could be a legal breach, say unions and other groups

06 Dec 2023
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A nurse puts her hand on the back of an older woman to support her as she walks with the help of a walking frame

Ban on bringing family members will discourage migrants, adding to work

05 Dec 2023
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Staff need reassurance about winter pressures and not to be held responsible for back

05 Dec 2023
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Sign for NHS Fife premises with blue sky and partial street scene in background. Hospital in NHS at centre of patient information breach

Woman got as far as helping staff deliver patient care, and left with documentation on mor

01 Dec 2023
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Photo of Norma Newcombe celebrating her retirement with colleague Sharon Swift

School nurse Norma Newcombe is ‘humbled and proud’ to have worked in NHS, and colleagues s

01 Dec 2023
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Photo of Dame Elizabeth Anionwu, who features in story about shortage of sickle cell nurses

Sickle Cell Society report also finds low morale and burnout among staff, with the charity

01 Dec 2023
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Nurses on strike outside Northern General Hospital, Sheffield

The code of practice for nurses who wish to strike, approved by MPs, gives employers discr

30 Nov 2023
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Two nurses look at a laptop screen together amid the bustle of a ward around them

The NMC has recorded a record rise in UK-educated registrants, but there has also been con

30 Nov 2023
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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

NHS pay offer for medical consultants has left nurses feeling more undervalued because it&n

27 Nov 2023

Data given precedence over nursing judgement for strategic staffing decisions, at

24 Nov 2023

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

24 Nov 2023

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

23 Nov 2023

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

23 Nov 2023

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

22 Nov 2023

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