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Strikes over pay: RCN chief urges government to value nurses as she calls for a higher starting salary for new nurses

Newly qualified nurses should start their careers on band 6 of the Agenda for Change pay s

30 Sep 2024
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Photo of Kevin Fong giving evidence at the COVID-19 inquiry

Former national clinical adviser tells COVID-19 inquiry of the trauma experience

26 Sep 2024
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Nursing staff tell RCN 5.5% pay award for the NHS is not enough

Nurses and support staff in England’s NHS tell their union, the RCN, in an online con

23 Sep 2024
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Newly registered nurses (NRNs) are finding it difficult to secure NHS nursing jobs and are

20 Sep 2024
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A total of 23,800 nursing students have been accepted onto courses across the UK, down by one fifth since the peak in 2021. A stressed student looks at some documents

Slump in degree course acceptances prompts call for urgent action on nursing student finan

19 Sep 2024
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Former chief nurse for England Dame Ruth May gave emotionally charged evidence to the COVD inquiry 

Former chief nurse tells COVID-19 inquiry abolition of NHS nursing student bursary was to

17 Sep 2024
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A brass plaque at the entrance to the NMC. An FtP panel finds 77 charges were proved, ten were not proved and on 14 there was no case to answer​​​​​​​

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise (FtP) panel heard nurse X

16 Sep 2024
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Image depicts a nurse sitting on a pile of coins with arrows pointing to a 5% figure in the background. The NHS Pay Review Body (RB) recommendation of a 5.5% pay rise has been accepted by the Welsh Government

The Welsh Government’s acceptance of the Pay Review Body recommendation

11 Sep 2024
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People with lower limb wounds experienced faster healing and lower recurrence during the trial in eight NHS trusts

Chronic lower limb wounds healed more quickly and recurrence dropped substantially in a tr

10 Sep 2024
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Rolled up fifty pound notes tied with ribbon

Mental health nurse Marcia Harding, who was trying to raise staff moral

04 Sep 2024
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Nursing staff face months of waiting to hear the results of the national job profile review

Band 4-6 role profiles review to be published at the start of next year following further

03 Sep 2024
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Band 8 pay point changes give nurses more incentive to move up from band 7

Changes to Agenda for Change band 8 pay scale mean nurses in senior leadership r

02 Sep 2024

RCN Foundation grant applications now open to help fund post-registration qualifi

27 Aug 2024

The Scottish Government has made a 5.5% pay offer to NHS healthcare staff on Agenda for Cha

21 Aug 2024

Nurse Ian O’Connor has been handed a 12-month suspension order by the Nursing and Midwifery

20 Aug 2024

A large-scale study finds that using temporary staff to plug gaps does mitigate the ra

19 Aug 2024

UK nursing student enrolments on to nursing degrees courses are down, as a nursing academic

15 Aug 2024

Statue of pioneering black nurse Mary Seacole outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London is&nbsp

14 Aug 2024

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