safe staffing

From strain to strength: enhancing the benefits of employing temporary nurses

From strain to strength: enhancing the benefits of employing temporary nurses

How temporary nurses can usefully complement permanent staff within clinical teams

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Board papers reveal that nurses at the high-security Rampton Hospital, Nottinghamshire, were left alone on night shifts on night shifts -nearly 200 times last year

Rampton Hospital: nurses left alone in high-security wards at night

Nurses covered whole wards alone 200 times in May-November 2025, hospital board papers reveal

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Hull Royal Infirmary

Unsafe nurse staffing: NHS trust told to act after woman’s death

Patient died following multiple falls after stay on ward with ongoing nurse shortages

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Pay rates: a hand holding pound coins and ten pound notes

Nurses feel ‘disrespected’ after trust cuts their bank shift rate

University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust nurses fear bank pay cuts may prompt staff to leave

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Illustration of a nurse walking a tight rope, shown as an ECG reading
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Unsafe nurse staffing: how has dangerous become ‘normal’?

Why the plight of staff in one unit is sadly all too relatable for so many

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Bank shift cuts: restrictions at Midland Metropolitan University Hospital near Birmingham have been put in place as the trust faces budget pressures

Trust’s bank shift restrictions put savings before safety, say staff

Nurses say it is impossible to pick up bank shifts, after cuts due to budget pressures

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In a letter to the government, the RCN, Mencap and campaigners have urged the government to urgently act to save learning disability nursing ‘before it’s too late’

Course closures and nurse shortages: is this the end for learning disability nursing?

Campaigners warn that without urgent government action, the profession faces collapse by 2028

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In a letter to the government, the RCN, Mencap and campaigners have urged the government to urgently act to save learning disability nursing ‘before it’s too late’

Course closures and nurse shortages: is this the end for learning disability nursing?

Campaigners warn that without urgent government action, the profession faces collapse by 2028

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Tina Donnelly death: pioneering nurse was ‘force to be reckoned with’

Former RCN Wales director and army officer Tina Donnelly has died after a short illness

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District nurse shortages: an older woman alone and staring out of a window

Coroners’ death warnings: is a lack of district nurses leading to harm?

Coroners’ reports have cited lack of staff as potentially contributing to patient deaths

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Entrance to Pilgrim Hospital in Boston, Lincolnshire. United Lincolnshire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust has told staff it is limiting the use of registered nurses on the bank in parts of its hospitals.

Band 3 bank shifts for nurses: trust under fire for offers of support worker shifts

Nurses warned of ‘risk to registration’ if they take bank work in unregistered roles

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Exodus of overseas educated nurses from the UK: nurse look serious as she picks up her jacket from a coat peg

Why so many colleagues from overseas are now looking to other nations for a better life

The pressures making internationally educated nursing staff want to quit the UK

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Lucy Letby case: what are the latest developments?

Our podcast discusses further arrests connected to the hospital where Lucy Letby worked

‘Super nurse’ myth: the sickness absence rules that make you feel pressured to work

Punitive policies, short-staffing pressures and tackling the myth of invincibility

Exploring the association between safe staffing and nurses’ health and well-being

How fostering supportive work environments can reduce burnout and retain nursing staff

Exhausted at work: is fatigue just ‘part of the job’?

It is often overlooked, rather than seen as a safety risk. We look at what needs to change

Burnout busters: 6 things your employer can do to reduce your risk

How nurses’ managers and organisations can foster safe and supportive workplaces

Nurse wrongly blamed for child death in ‘culture of cover up’

Raihana Awolaja, who had complex needs, died in 2023 after nursing staff left her unattended

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From strain to strength: enhancing the benefits of employing temporary nurses

How temporary nurses can usefully complement permanent staff within clinical teams

Rampton Hospital: nurses left alone in high-security wards at night
Nurses covered whole wards alone 200 times in May-November 2025, hospital board papers reveal
Unsafe nurse staffing: NHS trust told to act after woman’s death
Patient died following multiple falls after stay on ward with ongoing nurse shortages
Nurses feel ‘disrespected’ after trust cuts their bank shift rate
University Hospital Southampton NHS Trust nurses fear bank pay cuts may prompt staff to leave
Unsafe nurse staffing: how has dangerous become ‘normal’?
Why the plight of staff in one unit is sadly all too relatable for so many