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Conservative MPs criticise unions for dropping exemptions for emergency, intensive&nb

18 Apr 2023
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Court sketch of nurse Lucy Letby, who denies multiple murder and attempted murder charges

Notes contain phrases: ‘I killed them. I don’t know if I killed them. Maybe I did’.

18 Apr 2023
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Nurse in scrubs seen from neck down, holds sign that reads 'Sorry we are closed' – community hospital in Wales has shut ward because it can't recruit nurses

Efforts to attract nurses to NHS community hospital inpatient ward fail, forcing patients

18 Apr 2023
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Pat Cullen talking to reporters during a strike at Leeds General Infirmary

Downing Street rules out reopening talks but nurses’ leader Pat Cullen

17 Apr 2023
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Striking nurses hold placards on RCN picket line as college members vote to reject government's NHS pay offer in England

College names dates for escalation of NHS strike action, with emergency, intensive ca

14 Apr 2023
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Photo of nurses on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London. RCN pay ballot closes today.

Voting was open to all college members, even those not on Agenda for Change contracts, but

14 Apr 2023
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Brass name plate at entrance to NMC building

Colleagues raised concerns that nurse’s poor English put patients at ri

14 Apr 2023
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Strikers at the Royal Victoria Infirmary in Newcastle upon Tyne

RCN ballot on pay offer for members in England closes at 9am on 14 Apri

13 Apr 2023
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A young nurse of Asian ethnicity

Dashed hopes of career progression mean many with decades of nursing ex

13 Apr 2023
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Photo of nurse Sam Moynes visiting Geof Turner, whose life she saved while on the school run

Sam Moynes was collecting her daughter but swung into ‘work mode’ when Geof Turner went in

12 Apr 2023
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A nurse puts her arm around an upset colleague and comforts her

Hundreds of nurses were driven to ‘point of no return’ last year due to

12 Apr 2023
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Head of nursing education and recruitment at Swansea Bay University Health Board hopes the

12 Apr 2023

Nurses in Northern Ireland left in limbo as talks stall and parity with

11 Apr 2023

An NHS trust has received praise from nurses and other staff by providin

11 Apr 2023

Nursing Standard readers share their views on the proposal, with many suggesting the benefi

07 Apr 2023

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

06 Apr 2023

Caroline Taylforth, who manages Rossendale Nursing Home, had pleaded guilty to two counts o

06 Apr 2023

The promise of sweet treats for performing quick patient discharges drew fire on Twitter, w

06 Apr 2023

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