Nurses’ pay: new deal expected to be agreed today
Offer could be one-off payment for this year and maximum of 5% for 2023-24
16 Mar 2023
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Should nurses go back on strike while pay talks continue?
A nurse-led petition is urging the RCN to restart walkouts in England
16 Mar 2023
Nurses’ pay hopes dashed in budget ‘betrayal’
Nurses left with ‘little reassurance’ they will get pay rise needed to solve NHS crisis
15 Mar 2023
Lucy Letby trial: doctor asked for nurse to be removed from duties
Hospital boss refused to remove nurse from neonatal unit, court told
15 Mar 2023
Nurse ‘destroyed’ by long-COVID leads plea for key workers to receive compensation
Nurse will deliver petition to Downing Street urging help for front-line workers affected
15 Mar 2023
Will there be money for nurses’ pay in tomorrow’s budget?
There has been speculation that chancellor Jeremy Hunt may back-date some pay awards
14 Mar 2023
NHS trust’s appeal to nurses to work extra hours as junior doctors stage strike
Nurses’ union urges members to do nothing that could undermine impact of medics’ walkout
14 Mar 2023
Struck off: the nurse who failed to alert her ex-employer after it carried on paying her
Nurse was wrongly paid a salary for almost two years, but ‘had always intended to repay it’
14 Mar 2023
Junior doctors’ strike: do nurses have to pick up the workload?
A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to directly impact nursing workloads
13 Mar 2023
Would you be happy for a loved one to receive NHS care where you work?
NHS staff survey shows that only 60% of nurses in England would be satisfied to do so
10 Mar 2023
Will the government’s NHS workforce plan be a ‘betrayal of all staff’?
Critics respond to claims that specific nursing numbers may be removed from staffing plan
10 Mar 2023
No deal yet on nurses’ pay – talks to continue next week
Talks with health unions described as ‘constructive’ by DHSC as strikes remain paused
09 Mar 2023
Lucy Letby trial: parents begged for newborn to be moved
Father wanted surviving triplet to go to another hospital following deaths of boy’s brothers
09 Mar 2023
Anti-strikes law could breach nurses’ human rights
Bill would discriminate against nurses and cause confusion, says parliamentary panel
09 Mar 2023
Pay talks back on… even though union members have already accepted latest offer
Negotiations restart as Welsh ministers move to avert more strikes following RCN ultimatum
08 Mar 2023
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Black nurse told to bleach her skin wins £26,000 for racial harassment
Nurse depressed after boss told her to make her skin white so ‘patients will be nice to you’
07 Mar 2023
Lucy Letby trial: doctor recalls seeing unexplained blood and swelling in baby’s throat
Registrar made three attempts to intubate baby boy, as defence points to ‘suboptimal care’
07 Mar 2023