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The death of Marina Young in Royal Preston Hospital’s emergency department was in part due to failures in nursing care including lack of asthma management. Ms Young had complex needs

Coroner tells Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust it must improve nursing and med

19 Dec 2024
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Queen Elizabeth Hospital Birmingham scraps weekly car parking tickets for staff, citing patients missing appointments due to lack of parking

Nurses say they cannot afford to go to work after an NHS hospital trust scrapped weekly ca

18 Dec 2024
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NHS managers proposals: health and social care secretary Wes Streeting holding a red file

Proposals to introduce professional regulation for NHS managers include&nbs

17 Dec 2024
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Police image of former neonatal nurse and convicted child killer Lucy Letby

Defence lawyers for former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of murdering seven

16 Dec 2024
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Fitness to Practise panels: the Nursing and Midwifery Council has struck off over 1,000 professionals in the past five years. A nurse sits in front of a panel hearing

With a 14% rise in concerns raised to the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2023-24, data r

12 Dec 2024
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2.8% NHS nurse pay offer branded as deeply offensive by nursing leaders: nurses strike for fair pay

The Department of Health and Social Care has submitted evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body

11 Dec 2024
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Nurses with long-COVID: a woman clutches her chest due to shortness of breath, a common symptom of long-COVID

Survey by the RCN reveals lack of support from employers for nurses with long-COVID, with

05 Dec 2024
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Fitness to practise panel heard how a practice nurse mistakenly administered the anti-inflammatory Depo-Medrone (left) instead of the contraceptive Depo-Provera jab (right) to two patients.

A nurse who mistakenly gave patients a steroid injection instead of a contraceptive inject

04 Dec 2024
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St Pancras Hospital told to improve safety protocols: a patient died following administration of an anti-psychotic drug without national guidelines being followed

St Pancras Hospital in London has been told to urgently improve safety protocols after a m

03 Dec 2024
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Number nurses leaving NMC register has risen by almost 50% in just six months

Number of newly registered nurses and midwives leaving the professions has jumped by almos

02 Dec 2024
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Anthony Omo, adviser to NMC told members that: ‘healthcare is dangerous, and so there is a level of risk you need to live with’

Under fire Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) cannot ‘be the police of nurses’ and must l

28 Nov 2024
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The RCN, Unison and Unite say that 1 million NHS staff in England will not receive their pay rise in time in April if the government waits for the pay review report. Picture shows nursing staff on the picket line

The RCN, Unison and Unite nursing unions have written a joint letter to health and social

26 Nov 2024

Two district nurses claim they are together owed around £90,000 in years of back pay a

21 Nov 2024

A Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel said as a newly registered nurse

20 Nov 2024

The new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) interim chief executive Paul Rees should w

19 Nov 2024

NHS England’s national standardised uniforms for healthcare staff will soon be launched at&

18 Nov 2024

The Nursing and Midwifery Council has warned healthcare employers to make stringent identit

14 Nov 2024

Health and social care secretary Wes Streeting will tell staff at NHS Providers conference

12 Nov 2024

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