Shruti Sheth Trivedi

New deputy chairman of the Conservative Party Lee Anderson
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Nurses are lying if they say they need to use food banks, MP insists

Outspoken MP says no one earning £35,000 a year should need to rely on a food bank

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Fears for NHS workforce as applications for nursing courses drop

Applications for undergraduate courses have fallen for a second consecutive year

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Should qualifications be based on competency not clinical hours?

University Alliance suggests nursing students should be allowed to qualify on competency

Brass nameplate on NMC building
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Nurse who ran slimming clinics struck off for catalogue of errors

Regulator finds lapses including failure to calibrate scales used to weigh patients

Nurse gently touches arm of woman who is having chemotherapy infusion
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Do you care for people with cancer and want to expand your career?

New cancer education and skills framework aims to develop nursing staff at all levels

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

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

Striking nurses hold banners calling for better pay
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Nurses’ strikes suspended in Wales as union members ponder fresh pay offer

Union leader repeats call for PM Rishi Sunak to push for talks to get under way in England

Prime minister Rishi Sunak during TV interview with Piers Morgan
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Your pay rise is not our top priority, prime minister Sunak tells NHS nurses

PM insists he’d ‘love to give nurses massive rise’ – but says it would only fuel inflation

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What changes at work would boost nurses’ morale? We asked them

Nursing Standard readers responded on Twitter – and here's what they told us

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Calls to cut ‘exorbitant’ immigration fees to keep overseas nurses

Thousands of people sign petition urging government to reduce indefinite leave to remain fees

Nurses checking documents and consulting each other
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Where are the nurses for Rishi Sunak's £1bn urgent care plan?

Boost of 5,000 hospital beds and virtual wards must be matched by investment in staff

Nurse colposcopist Nicola Anderson and colleagues at North Tees and Hartlepool NHS Foundation Trust
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Cervical smears at work help busy nurses who struggle to keep screening appointments

Nurse set up screening service for NHS colleagues to help them prioritise their own health

Multicoloured trays holding syringes used in anaethesia
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Reducing drugs errors: would colour-coded trays help nurses avoid mistakes?

Researchers found the dishes made it easier to select the correct item and to spot errors

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Nurses’ COVID-19 deaths ruled as industrial disease by coroner

Campaigners hope ruling paves way for better financial support for nurses with long-COVID

Woman holding a young child standing next to a window
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Nursing student on brink of quitting after childcare benefits cut

Red tape means cut in childcare support while she works 12-hours days on understaffed wards

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Nursing education changes will help more students to qualify

Amendments to NMC education programme standards include more simulated practice learning

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Florence Nightingale Foundation plans to create 1 million nurse and midwife leaders

Charity announces five-year plan to extend its leadership programme and influence policy

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