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A review of nurses shift patterns to ensure better work-life balance and tackle recruitment and retention is underway in Scotland

A review of flexible working for the NHS nursing workforce in Scotland will consider chang

14 Feb 2025
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A job ad raised concerns about nursing associates being used to replace registered nurses at hospital trusts and GP practices

An NHS trust has drawn criticism over a job advert for a nursing associate whose duties wo

13 Feb 2025
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Patient death linked to lack of repositioning: patient in bed is tended to by nurse

Coroner's prevention of future deaths report says Cynthia Gilbert developed pressure

12 Feb 2025
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Dawn Butler, Labour MP for Brent East, made the case for new legislation to protect the ‘nurse’ job title in a private members bill in the House of Commons

A new bill to protect the ‘nurse’ job title by law has passed its first stage in Parliamen

11 Feb 2025
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Nurse struck off for stealing from patients: Addenbrooke‘s Hospital, where Kelvin Ramasta worked and met his victims

A nurse was struck off from the Nursing and Midwifery register for stealing £103,203 from

10 Feb 2025
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Nursing education in crisis: Telford nursing campus may close

Proposed closure of University of Wolverhampton’s Telford campus, which offers preregistra

06 Feb 2025
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Bill will ensure that only those who are registered with the NMC can call themselves a nurse

MP Dawn Butler is to introduce a bill that would make it illegal for individuals to c

05 Feb 2025
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Convictions of former nurse Lucy Letby challenged as a major injustice by MP at a news conference where medical experts questioned the prosecution's evidence

The convictions of former nurse Lucy Letby, serving life sentences for the murder and atte

04 Feb 2025
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Cardiff University nursing school proposed closure: students in lecture theatre

Cardiff University’s highly ranked nursing school could close, raising fears about future

31 Jan 2025
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council's average number of referrals per month from January to December 2024 was 542, representing a 17% increase compared with the same period in 2023. A nurse sits before a referral panel

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reports that fitness to practise (FtP) referrals are i

30 Jan 2025
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Senior nurse role profiles: ward manager in team meeting. Nurses in bands 7,8 and 9 have been undervalued in roles review, RCN claims

Newly updated NHS nursing job profiles for Agenda for Change bands 7, 8 and 9 do

29 Jan 2025
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Family, friends and university colleagues have expressed shock at the death of nursing lecturer Claire Chick

A man has been charged with the murder of Claire Chick, a nursing lecturer at the Universi

27 Jan 2025

Coroner tells Worcestershire Royal Hospital it must urgently improve its nurses’ awareness

23 Jan 2025

NHS staff including nurses may soon be able to choose from two pension b

21 Jan 2025

A nursing home nurse who performed ‘ineffective’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a w

20 Jan 2025

More than 5,000 nurses have shared distressing accounts of delivering care in corridors, to

16 Jan 2025

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel found Heather Hazzard failed t

14 Jan 2025

Nursing profession and others express shock and state that violence against healthcare staf

13 Jan 2025

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