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NHS pension scheme: ready reckoner tool will help you track your annual allowance
New tool is designed to help members understand their pension and potential liability
Nursing student appeals to NMC for compassionate leave allowance
Emma Garner missed placement shifts to be with her ill son
Ward manager struck off after ‘witch’ jibe and conduct and competence issues
Band 7 nurse humiliated colleagues, used foul language and made clinical errors
Nursing Live free event: what’s in it for your nursing branch?
Nursing Live on 23-24 October can help nurses and students in all specialties
NHS pay: delays to salary uplifts to end
Wes Streeting promises timely pay decision, but RCN wary of ‘language of austerity’
New nurses should begin their careers on band 6 – and more than £37,000 a year
£7K pay uplift for new nurses would attract brilliance, says RCN chief
COVID-19 inquiry: nurses describe scenes ‘from hell’ on wards
Former national adviser tells inquiry about trauma of nurses’ experiences in the pandemic
Nurse understaffing raises risk of post-surgical pressure ulcers
Understaffed surgical wards also have higher mortality rates, research finds
5.5% pay rise isn’t enough: NHS staff tell union leaders they reject 2024-25 award
RCN members in show of resolve over this year’s delayed pay rise
From placements to Starbucks: newly registered nurses struggle to find NHS jobs
New nurses report working as baristas as trusts impose recruitment freezes and staff cuts
Number of students accepted onto nursing degree courses lowest in over a decade
Slump in course acceptances prompts call for urgent action on student finances
Tearful former chief nurse tells COVID inquiry of nursing staff’s struggles in pandemic
She said ‘catastrophic’ loss of NHS student bursary robbed workforce of thousands of nurses