nurses strike

Archive image of striking nurses in Devon, illustrating recent context of government's 5.5% pay offer to Agenda for Change staff

NHS pay offer: is 5.5% enough of a start on the path to pay restoration?

Union to consult members and says nurses employed by NHS contractors must be part of deal

Exterior of St Thomas’ Hospital building in London

Strike action: longer day shifts tip exhausted theatre nurses over the edge

‘Chronically overworked’ staff at London trust to strike for two days in protest

Maria Caulfield is photographed in a clinical setting at St George’s Hospital, Tooting, talking to someone beyond the camera

What would the Conservatives do for nurses? An interview with Maria Caulfield

The Tory candidate and nurse on her party’s plans if re-elected

Pat Cullen

RCN leader Pat Cullen quits so she can seek selection to stand in general election

General secretary who took nurses into historic strikes stands down in bid to become MP

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NHS nurses on an NHS pay strike picket line

Why do NHS nurses in Scotland appear to get a better deal than elsewhere in the UK?

It seems staff there enjoy benefits their colleagues elsewhere can only dream of

Striking nurses in Plymouth, Devon, in May 2023

NHS employers reject suggested separate pay spine for nurses

RCN’s proposed nursing pay scale would harm morale, employers tell government consultation

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt holding up the red budget briefcase

Restraint urged on nurses’ pay after ‘generous’ award last year

NHS pay body is told budgets are ‘extremely constrained’ for 2024-25 pay offer

Image showing a close-up of a person's hand holding £20 notes, suggesting nurses' pay rise

What will the nurse pay offer for 2024-25 look like?

We look at when the process will get started – and whether further strike action is likely

Nurses on picket line wave banners during their NHS pay strike

Next NHS pay award needs to be a decent one, union tells government

Start pay talks now if you want to avoid repeat of strike action, minister is urged

Photo of nurses striking at Antrim Area Hospital in Northern Ireland last week

‘Anger and frustration’ of nurses may spark more strikes over pay

Union warns that Northern Ireland’s nurses could take further industrial action

Don’t put agency nurses in position of providing strike cover, unions’ leader urges

Ban on use of temp staff to fill in for strikers must stay, say TUC and agencies’ body

Nurses hold placards on picket line in Sheffield during NHS pay strike

Could breaking away from Agenda for Change really unblock your access to higher pay?

Some NHS nurses say current pay structure fails to recognise full scope of modern nursing

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

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

Junior doctors’ strike: do nurses have to pick up the workload?

A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to directly affect nursing workloads

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

Nurses need to push ministers further over pay, says RCN’s Pat Cullen

College would back nurses to strike again after making only modest progress last year

NHS pay: delay to next deal looks likely as minister emphasises need for ‘affordability’

Health unions accuse government of trying to interfere in pay review body’s independence

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