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Nottingham tram named after award-winning nursing student

Nursing student Christina O'Loughlin has had a tram named after her in her home city of...

Coventry University offers bursaries to encourage more men into nursing

Bursary aims to address gender imbalance on courses.

EU campaign nurses to meet NMC on language tests

A campaigning group of European nurses are set to meet with the Nursing and Midwifery...

Nurses need more understanding of domestic abuse, says RCN

RCN says nurses and midwives can help make a difference to those at risk from domestic abuse.

NHS ‘doesn’t deserve more money as it wastes cash on poor care’

The NHS needs to put its house in order and improve standards before it can justify asking...

Radical changes to school nurse role in Scotland leads to resignations

Recommendations to further develop the skills of nurses following a review of new models of...

Student who beat childhood cancer takes job with nurses who saved her

A newly qualified children’s nurse is to join the team that saved her life when she was two...

Isle of Man nurses to get 2.5% pay rise

Nurses on the Isle of Man are set to receive a 2.5% pay rise following an arbitrated...

Nurse MPs clash over pay cap campaign

A Conservative MP and cancer nurse who voted against removing the public sector pay cap has...

Schoolchildren 'should be taught about breastfeeding'...

Schools should teach children about the importance of breastfeeding, according to new...

New 'six in one' vaccine to be offered for babies...

A 'six in one' immunisation for babies born from today will replace the 'five in one'...

RCN and NMC hit back at ‘misguided and disrespectful’ newspaper column

The heads of the RCN and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have written to a national...

Nurse urges tighter curbs on online diet pills after daughter's death...

A nurse whose daughter died after taking online diet pills containing a toxic chemical is...

Pledge for thousands more mental health nurses

But RCN says 'more hard cash' needed to make plans reality

Industrial action threat over pay ‘very much alive’, RCN warns

The RCN will ballot members over industrial action later this year if the government...

Nurses across the UK campaign for fairer pay

40 events held as part of Scrap the Cap campaign

No need to complete antibiotics course, study says

Doctors’ orders to 'complete the course' for some antibiotics may be wrong, and patients...

'Act now to stop senior nurses quitting NHS'

Call from RCN on national day of campaigning

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