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Strikers at Northern General Hospital in Sheffield

NHS pay body exists in a vacuum, no longer works and risks disastrous r

14 Jun 2023
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Four nurses carrying out tasks around a busy work station, despite recruiting 800 extra overseas nurses it has failed to reverse the decline in numbers of the NHS workforce

4,000+ nursing posts are still vacant despite NHS Scotland recruiting additional health st

14 Jun 2023
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Nurses protesting at Stormont in May over cuts in the health service

Dublin pledges backing for 200 Northern Ireland university places in de

13 Jun 2023
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Photo of a hospital parking sign, illustrating a story about nurses' parking restrictions

Glasgow Royal Infirmary brings back penalties for parking in the patient zone for longer t

13 Jun 2023
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Two nurses give care at the bedside of patient in a high-intervention setting – as survey suggests short-staffing is harming care

Nursing staff describe how inadequate pay and poor staff retention combine to create high-

13 Jun 2023
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Two nurses in conversation, the one facing the camera looking perplexed

More nurses feel raising concerns at work is risky and futile, accordin

12 Jun 2023
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RCN general secretary Pat Cullen

RCN leader admits winning a further strike mandate will be a ‘tight call’, and opens up ab

12 Jun 2023
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Baroness Frances O’Grady speaking in the House of Lords as Lord Collins looks on from the benches

The House of Lords voted in an amendment to the government’s strikes bill restoring nurses

09 Jun 2023
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Photo of nurse answering phone on a busy ward. A new report calls for more managers to free up nurses' time to care for patients

Think tank sets out measures to address the ‘deep workforce crisis’ in the NHS, which also

09 Jun 2023
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Photo of Lucy and partner Kevin receiving a blessing at St Christopher’s Chapel in Great Ormond Street Hospital

Lucy also completed her nurse training at Great Ormond Street Hospital, so its chapel was

09 Jun 2023
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Sign for Charing Cross Hospital in London, one of the hospitals run by the Imperial trust

Imperial NHS trust in London – where spending in agency and bank staff topped £89 million

08 Jun 2023
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A paper towel used to record the drugs given to Child M, who the nurse is alleged to

08 Jun 2023

Online petition calls for all NHS staff on Agenda for Change contracts to get the full 2022

08 Jun 2023

Don’t be bullied back to work, RCN leader tells nurses in Wales as they return to picket li

07 Jun 2023

Cases of long-COVID have led to extended periods of absence for many NHS

07 Jun 2023

The accused nurse agrees that unprescribed insulin was deliberately added to intravenous fl

06 Jun 2023

RCN members are staging a 12-hour walkout after rejecting the Welsh Government’s latest pay

06 Jun 2023

NHS nursing staff are battling for better pay and working conditions, with unions in each p

06 Jun 2023

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