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Plans for more nurse training places
10,000 additional training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals
09 Aug 2017
Coventry University offers bursaries to encourage more men into nursing
Bursary aims to address gender imbalance on courses.
04 Aug 2017
EU campaign nurses to meet NMC on language tests
A campaigning group of European nurses are set to meet with the Nursing and Midwifery...
04 Aug 2017
Nurses need more understanding of domestic abuse, says RCN
RCN says nurses and midwives can help make a difference to those at risk from domestic abuse.
04 Aug 2017
NHS ‘doesn’t deserve more money as it wastes cash on poor care’
The NHS needs to put its house in order and improve standards before it can justify asking...
04 Aug 2017
Isle of Man nurses to get 2.5% pay rise
Nurses on the Isle of Man are set to receive a 2.5% pay rise following an arbitrated...
01 Aug 2017
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