Alison Stacey

Photo of Jill Kirk and Karen Colbeck-Rowe consoling each other after a gruelling 12-hour shift on a COVID critical care unit
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UK COVID-19 Inquiry wants ‘overlooked’ nurses to share their experiences

Give your views while nurse leaders highlight inadequate protection for community nurses

Nurses holding placards on a picket line outside Aintree University Hospital in Liverpool
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Who decides what nurses are paid in the UK

Spelling out how things stand on nurses’ pay for the current year as well as 2023-24

RCN members hold placards as they stage picket near Cardiff University Hospital during pay strike in December 2022
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Strikes back in prospect as union roundly rejects new pay offer and issues ultimatum

Extra offer for staff in Wales’ NHS wouldn’t make up for years of ‘being undervalued’

MP Sir Christopher Chope told Commons nurses should pay money back for their training if they leave the NHS
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Ask nurses to reimburse the state? But the NHS is already running on our goodwill

Scathing reactions to MP’s idea nurses outside NHS should ‘pay their dues’ to the public

Nurse Alexander Vukelic faces a 225-mile commute across the Irish Sea to Scotland despite mounting local vacancies
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Nurse faces 225-mile commute despite mounting local vacancies

Northern Ireland trusts have acknowledged delays to recruitment process

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Nurses should ‘pay back their dues’ if they don’t work in NHS, says MP

Sir Christopher Chope says training is at great public expense, despite students paying fees

Nurse Michelle Cox, who won a tribunal case against NHS England on the grounds of discrimination
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Discrimination at work: black nurse wins ‘landmark’ tribunal case

Judgement finds against NHS England after Michelle Cox experienced racism from her team

Striking nurses outside the Christie Hospital in Manchester in February 2023
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Nurses shouldn’t get more than 3.5% pay rise from April, ministers tell NHS pay review

Stance branded a ‘sick joke’ as union and government meet to break 2022-23 pay stalemate

Photo of nurse Lucy Letby, she told police harmful insulin dose ‘was not done by me’
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Lucy Letby told police officers that harmful insulin dose ‘was not done by me’

Nurse denied deliberate sabotage by dosing Child L with unprescribed insulin

Kangaroo crossing road in Western Australia
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Would you quit your NHS job and move to sunny Western Australia?

Aussies aim to lure UK nurses as RCN strikes over pay and working conditions ramp up

RCN Scotland members campaigning for fair pay and safe staffing outside the Scottish Parliament in October 2022
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Scotland NHS pay boost makes nurses ‘best paid in UK’

Unison welcomes pay offer but demands similar progress in other UK countries

Court sketch of nurse Lucy Letby, who is alleged to have murdered seven babies and attempted to murder ten others
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Lucy Letby sheds tears in court as doctor gives evidence

Ms Letby reacts as doctor recounts care of boy she is alleged to have attempted to murder

Strikers at Guy’s and St Thomas' NHS Foundation Trust in London on 6 February 
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Huge escalation in nurses' strikes with 120 employers hit next month

Nurses in England to walk out for 48 hours from 1 March leaving no part of NHS unaffected

Rossendale Nursing Home in Lancashire, where two residents died and the nursing home manager pleaded guilty to causing avoidable harm
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Nurse pleads guilty following deaths of two nursing home residents

Caroline Taylforth had been charged with two counts of causing avoidable harm

Rachel Hext, a nurse diagnosed with long-COVID, featured in a BBC Panorama programme on COVID payments being cut
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Government urged to recognise long-COVID as an occupational disease

Parliamentary group says failure to offer nurses support will lead to more NHS tribunals

Striking nurses outside Royal Preston Hospital today 
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Nurses’ strike live: walkouts enter their sixth day

Staff begin further day of action in bid to put pressure on ministers over NHS pay talks

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Watch: see chants and support for nurses on picket lines

Nurses are receiving plenty of help from TV doctors, brass sections and more

Striking nurses on the picket line with placards for fair pay at the University Hospital of North Durham
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Nurses’ strike live: news and pictures from day five

Nurses return to picket lines as fight for fairer pay and working conditions continues

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