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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
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
NHS ‘squander billions on agency staff’ instead of nurse training
RCN analysis finds NHS spent more than £3 billion over three years
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
‘Cruel’ curbs on migrant care workers seen as disaster for NHS and social care
Ban on family members will discourage migrants, adding to workforce shortages, say critics
You can’t blame nurses’ strikes for record NHS waiting lists, minister told
Health and social care secretary said industrial action is one cause of backlogs
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
Chronic shortage of sickle cell nurses putting patients at risk
Dame Elizabeth Anionwu calls for action to increase nurse numbers in specialty
New anti-strike code of practice approved by MPs, despite human rights concerns
Government anti-strike measures called ‘a brazen attack on the right to strike’
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
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
NHS pay deal: reopen talks with nurses, union leader urges government
Consultants’ better deal exposes injustice our female-dominated profession faces – RCN