Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Striking nurses outside Antrim Area Hospital
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Pay parity and safe staffing: nurses' views from the picket lines

Nurses in Northern Ireland take to picket lines amid failure to implement pay award

Sign outside building saying Rampton Hospital, part of Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust
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Nurse shortages part of inadequate rating at psychiatric hospital

Rampton Hospital was found to overuse restrictive practices due to understaffing

A glass jar full of coins labelled 'NHS Pension'
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NHS pensions: changes could risk greater opt-out among lowest paid

Rises in contribution rates could prompt greater levels of pension opt-outs

A nurse looks concerned and stressed while talking to a paramedic
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Crisis in the emergency department: 12-hour trolley waits soar in 2023

Undignified 12-hour waits increase by 50-fold since 2019 amid chronic staff shortages

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70-year-old nurse cycles more than 300km to raise money for Cavell

Ian Clifford took on the challenge to help charity support colleagues in need

Five nursing students stand in semi-circle. They watch as one handles IV line – NMC is to review undergraduates clinical learning requirements
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Undergraduates’ practice learning: NMC to review nursing students’ evolving needs

Regulator will examine proposals based on research that will examine overseas models

Photo of social care worker with older patient, illustrating story about new qualifications in social care
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Social care: new qualifications and career path aim to boost recruits

Government says new measures seek to ‘recognise social care as the skilled profession it is’

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You’re in one of the UK’s most in-demand jobs – but are you feeling valued?

Recruiters name nurses among the occupational groups with greatest shortfall of candidates

Striking nurses at Belfast’s Royal Victoria Hospital in January 2020
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Nurses to strike over lack of pay parity in Northern Ireland

Nurses to join day of action over failure to receive pay award in line with UK colleagues

A nurse wearing a blue face masks talks to a patient who is sitting up and is also wearing a face mask
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Calls to bring back face masks to combat new COVID-19 variant

NHS has received calls to reintroduce personal protective equipment as per WHO advice

A nurse in uniform using a car park ticket machine
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NHS staff fork out £46.6m to park at work as fees soar by 830%

Government criticised for not fulfilling its pledge to crack down on unfair parking fees

Striking nurses in Harrogate in May 2023
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Unions would rally behind nurses sacked under ‘toxic’ new strike law, says TUC

Right to strike will be defended in face of new law on enforcing minimum service levels

A smiling woman in a graduates gown holds her cap up in the sunlight
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Boost to nursing workforce as student places double in ten years

1,000 nurses and midwives set to qualify in Northern Ireland after boost to student places

Nurses holding placards and dressed for the cold weather, picket Northern General Hospital in Sheffield
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NHS strikes one year on: how nursing staff took a historic stand with public’s support

Look back at what nurses told us on the picket lines, and why the campaign isn’t over

NMC name and logo on brass plaque, with police photo of child killer Lucy Letby, inset. Letby was struck off by the NMC
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Lucy Letby struck off NMC register in formal move following murder convictions

Serial child killer did not contest fitness to practise process, but maintains her innocence

A woman uses the calaculator function on her phone while working at a computer
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Nurses forced to pay for criminal record checks when moving jobs or seeking promotion

Lottery sees some employers making nurses pay for legal checks themselves, union says

Photo of nurse supervising a support worker
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Support staff doing tasks of nurses puts care at risk – report

RCN Wales says support workers should never be pressured to work beyond their competencies

Nurse retention drive
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Nurse retention drive extends to more NHS trusts after 11% fall in leavers

Scheme includes clinical ‘support squads’ to aid staff with menopausal symptoms

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