January: Elizabeth Anionwu is made a dame in the Queen’s New Year’s Honours list
February: The first Queen's Nurses in Scotland for 50 years
March: Nurses are hailed for their swift response to a terrorist attack in Westminster
April: The Workforce Race Equality Standard report shows that more BME nurses are moving into senior positions
April: The NMC reveals 200,000 nurses and midwives have revalidated since April 2016
May: Melanie Davies is named Nurse of the Year at the RCNi Nurse Awards
June: Nurses tell of their struggle to care for patients after a fire at Grenfell Tower in London
June: Nurses take to the streets as the ‘summer of protests’ begins in Norwich with a candlelit vigil
June: Theatre nurse Eleanor Smith is elected as the new Wolverhampton South Labour MP
July: Theresa May declares that there is no ‘magic money tree’
July: Nurses angered at at the pay cap deliver a ‘magic money tree’ to the Department of Health
July: Nurses send letters and emails to their MPs in protest about pay restraint
August: Coventry University offers bursaries to men who apply for degrees in nursing
August: ICN chief executive Frances Hughes steps down
September: Nurses descend on Parliament Square for the biggest rally of the Scrap the Cap campaign
September: Nicola Sturgeon publicly commits to scrapping the 1% pay cap for nurses
September: Nursing Standard marks its 30th birthday
September: A Nursing Standard investigation reveals that one in four nursing students quit their course before completion
October: The World Health Organization appoints Elizabeth Iro as chief nurse
October: Liza Mitchell-Worsfold is among the winners of this year’s Mary Seacole Awards
November: CNO for Wales Jean White receives her CBE from the Queen
November: Chancellor Philip Hammond promises funds to cover a nursing pay rise
November: The Welsh government publishes statutory guidance on new nurse staffing laws