Winter pressures: how will the health service cope this time round?
With winter looming, pressure builds for Matt Hancock to turn around the past two years of...
17 Sep 2018
Analysis
What you need to know about vaginal mesh surgery
Women are experiencing life-changing complications from vaginal mesh surgery, the use of...
24 Aug 2018
Nurse managers have a vital role in the future success of social care
The government's promised social care measures will need strong nurse leadership and joined-...
22 Aug 2018
New routes to nursing combined with education reform run risk of overwhelming workforce
Expansion of nursing roles and changes in placements may add to pressures on qualified staff
10 Aug 2018
Telling it how it is: senior nurses voice concerns in RCNi survey
Nearly half of senior nursing workforce concerned for safe staffing on the front line
17 Jul 2018
EXCLUSIVE: The short staffing that is threatening patient safety across the UK
Nursing Standard-Sunday Mirror survey results add weight to case for safe staffing law
08 Jul 2018
Embedding patient experience in care service development
NHS Improvement publishes 'organisational diagnostic' framework to help senior nurses assess...
18 Jun 2018
Heart of the matter: nurse-led collaboration to get serious about preventing...
A collaborative forum aims to take a 'whole-system' approach to reduce death rates from...
13 Jun 2018
IT survey reveals mismatch between what community nurses want and what they have
With one in three community nurses still using paper-based systems, more needs to be done to...
09 May 2018
Robot wards: RCN congress discusses the future of AI technology in health and social...
With the use of robotics advancing into healthcare, what ramifications are there for staff...
16 Apr 2018
Lack of funding leaves NHS with ‘impossible’ task
The prime minister’s promise of a long-term funding settlement will not solve the crisis...
16 Apr 2018
Exclusive: The threats to safety faced by nurses who work alone
Nurses who work alone are subject to a multitude of dangers
09 Mar 2018
End of life care being compromised by lack of nurse training, exclusive survey reveals
Poor discharge planning and lack of funding identified by Nursing Standard and Marie Curie...
07 Mar 2018
Directors of nursing should be involved in tackling NHS waste management problems, say...
RCN report on NHS England waste management reveals huge disparity in cost of processing waste
06 Mar 2018
Road block looms over bid to link pay to productivity
This latest article in our series on the 2018 pay negotiations looks at what is shaping up...
22 Feb 2018
Survey reveals end of life care compromised
Difficulties in delivering a dignified death intesify
21 Feb 2018
Shake-up of flawed pay bands system could make it quicker to get to the top
The third of our series of articles setting the scene for the 2018 negotiations on nurses’...
15 Feb 2018
Unions seize chance to modernise NHS pay structure with fairer grading
Nearly 15 years since the implementation of the Agenda for Change pay system, introduced to...
08 Feb 2018