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Nurse MPs clash over pay cap campaign
A Conservative MP and cancer nurse who voted against removing the public sector pay cap has...
01 Aug 2017
RCN and NMC hit back at ‘misguided and disrespectful’ newspaper column
The heads of the RCN and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have written to a national...
31 Jul 2017
Industrial action threat over pay ‘very much alive’, RCN warns
The RCN will ballot members over industrial action later this year if the government...
28 Jul 2017
Nurses across the UK campaign for fairer pay
40 events held as part of Scrap the Cap campaign
27 Jul 2017
No need to complete antibiotics course, study says
Doctors’ orders to 'complete the course' for some antibiotics may be wrong, and patients...
27 Jul 2017
Ministers to waive penalties over back pay owed by care homes
Historic financial penalties owed by care homes who have underpaid their staff for overnight...
26 Jul 2017
Report warns of ‘urgent workforce challenges’ facing NHS in Scotland
Nurses and other NHS staff in Scotland are facing increasing workload pressures due to a...
25 Jul 2017
New data reveals nurse vacancies
Pay restraint and Brexit to blame for falling numbers and rising vacancies, say unions
25 Jul 2017
£16.4 million housing to tempt new nurses
Staff accommodation block to be built at a hospital in Lincolnshire
25 Jul 2017
Francis Inquiry lessons risk being lost due to staff burnout, charity warns
NHS staff wellbeing is suffering under the strain of increasing service pressures at the...
21 Jul 2017
Eye care firm offers £1m of laser surgery to nurses, other emergency workers
An eye care company is offering £1 million worth of laser eye surgery to nurses and other...
21 Jul 2017
RCN urges nurses to back its ‘biggest-ever’ rally
College to stage Scrap the Cap rally in September
21 Jul 2017
Charity warns of ‘devastating impact’ of £400 million back pay bill for sleep-in carers
Organisations looking after people who have learning disabilities could collapse due to a £...
19 Jul 2017
NMC reveals reasons why nurses are referred to regulator
Only one in five referrals to fitness to practise proceedings concern patient care.
19 Jul 2017
NMC chief executive received pay rise of almost £20,000
Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chief executive Jackie Smith received a pay rise of...
19 Jul 2017
Vulnerable people being 'let down' by council and care providers...
People who do not have the ability to choose how they are cared for are being 'let down' by...
19 Jul 2017
Support promised for NHS staff who smoke
Part of government plans for 'smoke-free generation'
18 Jul 2017