Nurses brace to escalate strike action as they tell ministers 5% pay offer is not enough
RCN names strike dates – and this time emergency and intensive care staff are involved
14 Apr 2023
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Non-NHS nurses able to vote in RCN pay ballot
The college says a ‘robust validation process’ will discount any ineligible votes
14 Apr 2023
Nurse ordered to be struck off after refusing to take English test
Colleagues worried poor English put patients at risk but she said she’d done nothing wrong
14 Apr 2023
Only hours left for nurses to have their say on revised pay offer
Ballot closes at 9am on 14 April, with RCN saying pay talks will not reopen if it is rejected
13 Apr 2023
Experienced overseas nurses forced to take entry-level roles in NHS
Dashed hopes of career progression leave many feeling heartbroken by treatment in UK
13 Apr 2023
Off-duty nurse recalls saving a grandfather’s life on school run
Sam Moynes swung into ‘work mode’ when Geof Turner went into cardiac arrest
12 Apr 2023
Big rise in nurses trying to take their own lives due to burnout
Hundreds of nurses driven to ‘point of no return’ last year, says mental health charity
12 Apr 2023
Recruitment drive for 900 overseas nurses to plug staff shortages
Swansea Bay University Health Board hopes move will slash annual agency bill by £1.5 million
12 Apr 2023
Failed pay talks leave nurses no closer to new deal
Nurses in Northern Ireland left in limbo as talks stall and parity with England unclear
11 Apr 2023
Nurses’ well-being: would discount meals at work help?
One trust provides free breakfasts and cut-price dinners to help cope with cost of living
11 Apr 2023
Nurse stars in inspirational choir of worldwide healthcare staff
Choir formed to raise spirits amid COVID meets in Geneva to mark WHO anniversary
06 Apr 2023
Nurse to pay £55k over nursing home resident deaths
Caroline Taylforth had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing avoidable harm
06 Apr 2023
Anti-strikes bill could see nurses struck off, union warns
Anti-strikes Bill could see nurses face FtP charge by NMC if it becomes law, says Unite
05 Apr 2023
RCN calls in cyber security firm amid claim signatures on a petition were falsifed
Petition called for no-confidence vote on college’s leadership following NHS pay offer
05 Apr 2023
Social care funds slashed by £250 million amid staffing crisis in struggling sector
Promised funding has been halved despite warnings of ‘catastrophic’ effects
05 Apr 2023
Agency staff bill exceeds £26 million in just three months
Scottish Labour reveals ‘unsustainable’ spending including cover for 34,000 nursing shifts
04 Apr 2023
Lucy Letby trial: colleagues recall how staff stabilised infant after his sats dropped
Neonatal nurse accused of attempting to murder baby boy by injecting air into his stomach
04 Apr 2023
Pay spine for nursing could create tension between nurses and other NHS staff groups
Unions and nurses voice fears over RCN’s bid to secure an NHS pay scale for nursing staff
04 Apr 2023