Shruti Sheth Trivedi

Nurse retention drive
Nursing Standard

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

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

A student sits in a lecture theatre taking notes
Nursing Standard

Nursing student recruitment: ‘we’re going in the wrong direction’

Data show student numbers fell by 10.6% in 2023 sparking criticism of NHS workforce plan

Photo of busy hospital ward corridor, illustrating story about spending on agency nurses
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NHS ‘squander billions on agency staff’ instead of nurse training

RCN analysis finds NHS spent more than £3 billion over three years

Nursing Standard

Your right to strike: condemnation for law limiting nurses’ scope for industrial action

Act could be legal breach, say unions and other groups monitoring post-Brexit rule changes

Sign for NHS Fife premises with blue sky and partial street scene in background. Hospital in NHS at centre of patient information breach
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Hospital intruder who posed as an agency nurse gave patient care and stole documentation

Security breach is a lesson for all healthcare organisations, said privacy watchdog

Two nurses look at a laptop screen together amid the bustle of a ward around them
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UK-trained nurse numbers hits record high but red-list recruitment remains a concern

NMC records a rise of almost 20,000 registrants in six months

Scene at a busy hospital with medics engaged in various tasks as a trolley with a patient on it is pushed past
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Rise in nurses hits 50,000 target but too many posts still unfilled, say critics

‘Political target’ met but nurses still having to care for too many patients, says RCN

Nurse with her back to the camera appears to feel isolated as union and care sector call on government to act against exploitation of foreign care staff in the UK
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Focus on curbing exploitation of foreign staff, not immigration levels, minister told

Union and care providers call on government to take action against unethical employers

Nursing Standard

Consultants’ pay deal highlights ‘galling’ disparity for nurses

NHS nurses received the lowest public sector pay deal, with no promise of pay scale reform

Marsha de Cordova reads out nursing students’ survey responses during a Westminster Hall debate
Nursing Standard

Nursing student on unpaid placements unable to afford food or toilet rolls, MPs hear

Replies to a student survey telling of financial struggles were heard at Westminster debate

Nursing and Midwifery Council chief executive Andrea Sutcliffe
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NMC 'toxic culture' claims: regulator sets out how investigation will run

Investigation will also look at claims of sexism and of a culture of fear at NMC

Muckamore Abbey Hospital in County Antrim, Northern Ireland
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Nurse endured multiple injuries and rape threats at controversial hospital

Christine Keenan spoke at the inquiry into patient abuse at Muckamore Abbey Hospital

Nursing Standard

Government launches new bid to allow agency staff to cover strike shifts

The ‘provocative’ proposal would escalate disputes and endanger public, say unions

Three nurses stand cramped together at nurses' station, one is using a computer – as RCN points to gap between NHS waiting list and growth in nurse numbers
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NHS waiting list: lengthening care backlog outpaces growth in nurse numbers

Workforce expansion fails to come close to increase in waits for NHS appointments

Labour Party leader Keir Starmer speaking in parliament
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Nurse leaders call for immediate ceasefire in Gaza but MPs vote no

The RCN has called for the protection of civilian lives and access to healthcare in Gaza

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New health and social care secretary: I want to end strikes and cut waiting lists

Rishi Sunak promotes Victoria Atkins to become seventh holder of the role in as many years

A woman sits and explains something to another woman as she holds a pen and a clipboard
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Mental health nurses urged to give views on their working lives and well-being

Researchers hope the findings will spur nurse retention initiatives in mental healthcare

Photo of the King delivering his speech at State Opening of Parliament
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King’s speech ‘fails to address nursing workforce crisis’

Unions and others also criticise omission of safe staffing, social care and mental health

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