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Bank nurse could see their NHS pensions dwindle under planned changes at three NHS hospital trusts Picture: iStock

Three trusts want to move bank nurses to an agency, slashing employer pension contributions

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Relocation package would be ‘on a par with the expenses available to resident doctors’ Picture: iStock

RCN also suggests a student loan forgiveness scheme and other strategies to retain new nurses

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The Nursing and Midwifery Council’s London headquarters: the nursing regulator is under fire from its own watchdog Picture: Barney Newman

Questions asked as report shows regulator failing to meet standards

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Ian Coates, Barnaby Webber and Grace O'Malley-Kumar were killed in June 2023 Picture: Nottinghamshire Police

Trust has dismissed 11 staff members for inappropriately accessing medical records

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The Nursing and Midwifery Council faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants Picture: Barney Newman

NMC faces backlash after failing to review health and criminal declarations for 18,000+ registrants

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District nurse Gill Fairclough (left) was fined for using a permit issued a decade ago that was later deemed invalid, seen here with her colleague Stephanie Warman Picture: Gilli Fairclough

Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid

Analysis

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Nurses speak of concerns about levels of personal protection equipment used when administering chemotherapy drugs  Picture: iStock

Are employers doing enough to protect staff who handle chemotherapy medicines?

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Health visitors at Cwm Taf Morgannwg University Health Board in south Wales are striking in protest over the board’s refusal to recognise a change in role banding Picture: Unite union Facebook 

Community nurses are fighting for their high-level practice to be rebanded at band 7

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Advanced nurse practitioners’ presence on senior clinical staff rotas is not the same as ‘doctor substitution’, nurses argue Picture: iStock

The BMA says staff are being used inappropriately – is the claim justified or divisive?

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NHS unions and the governments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are negotiating updates to the 25-year-old Agenda for Change pay structure Picture: iStock

Our Q&A looks at what negotiations on Agenda for Change shake-up could mean for nurse pay

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The fees charged for nursing staff to park in their NHS workplace varies Picture: Neil O’Connor 

Our investigation shows the huge variation in parking fees across England and the UK

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Leadership comes in a many forms – so what makes a nursing leader truly effective? Picture:Tim Zoltie

Two NHS chief nurses reveal how working with staff helped transform care and morale

Clinical update

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Updated NICE guidance focuses on diagnosis, red flag symptoms and when to seek emergency care

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Guidance focuses on individualised care for pressure ulcers, lower limbs and surgical wounds

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Resuscitation UK advice affirms role of advance care planning

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Picture shows a woman comforting a young girl while a nurse holds her arm

New guidelines focus on physical, psychological and pharmacological interventions

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Revised guidance details roles and competencies required of healthcare staff

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Updated guidance covers children with a tracheostomy or respiratory difficulties

Policy briefing

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Boy texting

Advice on how school nursing services in England can operate during imposed restrictions

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Picture shows two medics in discussion. Lack of personal protective equipment allows nurses to take a decision to protect themselves, RCN guidance says.

The implications for nurses of RCN guidance on care provision and inadequate PPE

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Picture of a newborn receiving ventilation

Concerns about standards of care with long-term ventilation reviewed by NCEPOD

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Image shows school teacher interacting with young people in a classroom lesson

Public Health England focuses on promoting critical importance of mental health

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Picture of a child alone on a park bench

How will the new safeguarding partners differ from local safeguarding children’s boards?

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Child at top of stairs may fall

The Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents calls for preventive action across the ages

Journal scan

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Measles

Childhood measles can affect post-bronchodilator airflow obstruction in later life

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Woman with a small child looking at a smartphone

Study shows that children respond to videos on smartphone screens but do not benefit educationally

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A woman sitting with a child on her knee

Study finds women parenting children with cancer have lower incomes than those with children who do not

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parasitic worms

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh who tested the Heligmosomoides polygyrus Alarmin Release Inhibitor (HpARI) on mice hope findings will lead to using the protein as the...

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Cannabis

Findings follows 36 studies of randomised and non-randomised controlled trials of children and adults who have a rare form of epilepsy

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