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Mental health nurses’ care failures: Mill View Hospital in Brighton

Coroner criticises failures to check patient record before tragedy, the latest at the trust

08 May 2026
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A group of health visitors in south Wales hold banners, flags and signs during strike action in March

Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal 

07 May 2026
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A nurse writing notes on a clipboard

He also failed to take observations and record that he had altered the scores

06 May 2026
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New NHS uniform: two nurses wearing different styles

Around 55,000 staff wear the uniform but this is less than 10% of the intended workforce

05 May 2026
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Cut to placement hours: nurse with student on ward

Regulator invites feedback on proposals, but the RCN has concerns about student preparedness

01 May 2026
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District nurse deputy team leader Lauren Heald uses a smartphone to take a picture of a wound on a patient’s foot

Community nurses have reduced healing times and saved money in remote monitoring trial

30 Apr 2026
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Critical care staff on strike earlier in their dispute

Critical care staff plan fresh strike action in continuing dispute over reduced pay rates

29 Apr 2026
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NMC fee rise: £10 and £20 notes being handled in brown wallet

Regulator insists it kept increase to a minimum given registrants’ money pressures

29 Apr 2026
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Nurse leaders say highly skilled advanced nurses are not substitutes for any profession

28 Apr 2026
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Student with epilepsy died by suicide: Chloe Roberts

Nursing student Chloe Roberts died by suicide after she was suspended from her univers

27 Apr 2026
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Nursing pay talks: nurse with money

Agenda for Change pay structure to be reviewed, which may also see pay backdated

23 Apr 2026
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Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) plaque
Fitness to practise panel acknowledged nurse’s ‘difficult personal circumstances’
22 Apr 2026

Scheme will ‘support social mobility’ and target areas with the greatest training shortages

21 Apr 2026
Viral footage showed prolonged racist attack, which left nurse traumatised and fearful
20 Apr 2026
Nurse previously wrote to health and social care secretary Wes Streeting about the issue
16 Apr 2026

Investigation finds 35 out of 100 band 5 nursing roles not open to newly registered nurses

15 Apr 2026
Coroner says Janet Daniels would probably not have died if treatment had continued
14 Apr 2026
Band 5 discharge nurses go directly onto wards to identify patients ready to leave hospital
13 Apr 2026

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