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Image depicts a nurse sitting on a pile of coins with arrows pointing to a 5% figure in the background. The NHS Pay Review Body (RB) recommendation of a 5.5% pay rise has been accepted by the Welsh Government

Recommended 5.5% pay rise approved for nurses in Wales

Award receives tepid response from RCN Wales, which will now ask members if it’s enough

Rolled up fifty pound notes tied with ribbon

Nurse used funds from patient activity budget to pay for staff party

NMC panel hands out two-month suspension, but finds nurse is not ‘inherently dishonest’

Nursing staff face months of waiting to hear the results of the national job profile review

Nursing job profiles: nurses won’t know review outcome until 2025

Band 4-6 revised profiles will be published after review of all bands is complete

Band 8 pay point changes give nurses more incentive to move up from band 7

Band 8 revamp boosts incentive for nurses to take the step up

New NHS pay points incentivise staff on band 7 to seek promotion despite loss of overtime pay

RCN Foundation grant can progress your career and improve patient care

Develop your career or help fund your degree with an RCN Foundation grant

Applications open until 18 October – and you don’t have to be an RCN member to be eligible

Nurses in Scotland to vote on latest pay offer: will it be enough?

Unions are considering the long-awaited offer before consulting members

Nurse suspended after lowering patients’ early warning scores

Panel finds nurse lowered NEWS but did not note this alteration or escalate condition

Patient deaths remain raised when temporary nurses plug staffing gaps

Employing temporary nurses reduces but does not eliminate higher safety risk

Nursing students being accepted on to nursing degrees has fallen in the UK as A-level students receive their results

Recruitment crisis: what would make nursing degrees more attractive to students?

Students need greater grant support to ensure they can afford to eat, says degree leader

Mary Seacole statue in grounds of St Thomas’ Hospital in London was vandalised

Mary Seacole statue defaced in ‘disgraceful act of vandalism’

Memorial to nurse who has come to symbolise profession’s diversity is splattered with paint

Emergency department staffing concerns: Inga Rublite experienced a brain haemorrhage in an ED waiting room

Hospital reviews nursing staff numbers in ED after woman is found dying under her coat

Coroner orders NHS trust to provide progress report on resolving risk of preventable deaths

RCN is asking nursing staff in an online consultation to say if they approve or disapprove of a pay award of 5.5%; picture shows a finger touching a tick mark on a screen

Consultation opens for you to give your verdict on NHS pay award

RCN consultation invites members to say if 5.5% rise is ‘enough of a start on our journey’

Riots: nursing staff can refuse to treat racist or violent patients

Updated guidance states that staff may withdraw care in certain situations

‘I shouldn’t have done it’: nurse who apologised for falsifying time sheets struck off

Denise Balanza falsely claimed pay for ten shifts at the Royal Preston Hospital

‘Scared to go to work’: Filipino nurses attacked in city riots

Nurses were going to work at hospital providing emergency cover amid violence, report says

ICU nurses awarded tens of thousands of pounds in band 6 back pay 

The 13 staff secured the award after job evaluation moved their roles from band 5 to band 6

NHS pay award: are you prepared to accept 5.5% – for now at least?

Consultation to open on what nurses think of government’s pay award in England

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

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