Nurse shortages part of inadequate rating at psychiatric hospital
Rampton Hospital was found to overuse restrictive practices due to understaffing
17 Jan 2024
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QNI grant will help community nurses severely affected by UK flooding
Storms in the UK have forced people out of their homes with some nurses unable to work
17 Jan 2024
NHS pensions: changes could risk greater opt-out among lowest paid
Rises in contribution rates could prompt greater levels of pension opt-outs
16 Jan 2024
Fair pay: call for evidence on new separate pay spine for nurses
Nurses’ pay spine could reward experience, says RCN, but others warn of divisiveness
12 Jan 2024
70-year-old nurse cycles more than 300km to raise money for Cavell
Ian Clifford took on the challenge to help charity support colleagues in need
12 Jan 2024
Undergraduates’ practice learning: NMC to review nursing students’ evolving needs
Regulator will examine proposals based on research that will examine overseas models
11 Jan 2024
Delayed discharge figures prompt fresh worries over community nurse staffing shortage
Cost of delays tops £1.2 billion and also raises patient safety concerns, says RCN Scotland
11 Jan 2024
You’re in one of the UK’s most in-demand jobs – but are you feeling valued?
Recruiters name nurses among the occupational groups with greatest shortfall of candidates
10 Jan 2024
Nursing associates must not be used to strip out the nurse workforce, union warns
Ministers considering introducing the registered band 4 role for Wales’s NHS
09 Jan 2024
Nurses to strike over lack of pay parity in Northern Ireland
Nurses to join day of action over failure to receive pay award in line with UK colleagues
08 Jan 2024
Struck off: the ward manager who claimed band 7 pay rate for working band 5 bank shifts
Seconded manager who also worked shifts at her trust displayed ‘serious dishonesty’ – NMC
08 Jan 2024
A family business: father and daughter become nurses at same time
Steven and Stevie-Leigh Jewell qualify as mental health nurses within weeks of each other
05 Jan 2024
Mental health nurses left ‘high and dry’ as calls to helpline double
Calls to NHS 24 Mental Health hub regarding psychotic symptoms rose by 100% in two years
05 Jan 2024
Calls to bring back face masks to combat new COVID-19 variant
NHS has received calls to reintroduce personal protective equipment as per WHO advice
04 Jan 2024
Junior doctors’ strike: do nurses have to pick up the workload?
A fresh wave of NHS industrial action is likely to directly affect nursing workloads
04 Jan 2024
Nursing apprentices celebrate as their programme’s first cohort to qualify
Two-year programme was established by independent healthcare provider
04 Jan 2024
NHS staff fork out £46.6m to park at work as fees soar by 830%
Government criticised for not fulfilling its pledge to crack down on unfair parking fees
03 Jan 2024
Unions would rally behind nurses sacked under ‘toxic’ new strike law, says TUC
Right to strike will be defended in face of new law on enforcing minimum service levels
03 Jan 2024