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Female nurses at higher risk of suicide compared to some other occupations

Nurses have an higher risk of suicide according to an analysis by the Office for National...

Health secretary calls on senior nurses for help in four areas

Nurses can help make improvements in four key areas, the health secretary told the chief...

Pioneering course sees graduates combine research and front-line nursing

A new academic course is hoping to increase nurse-led research, improve front-line practice...

'I don't think nurse pay is enough,' says Jeremy Hunt...

Health secretary Jeremy Hunt says he 'dearly' wants to increase nurse pay – but is...

The flying nurses bringing eye health care to developing countries

Scaling the heights of healthcare with blindness prevention charity Orbis’s Flying Eye...

Support your EU colleagues, urges chief nurse

Nurses from the EU face an 'uncertain future' and need our support, Jane Cummings said, as...

District nursing shortage leaving patients in pain, report warns

A district nurse shortage is leaving patients in pain and putting pressure on staff across...

Funds for STPs in spring budget

Additional funds for sustainability and transformation plans (STPs) announced in the spring...

Non-EU worker fee risks adding to staffing crisis, warns RCN

College says the government must exempt healthcare workers from new immigration charge.

Barry Quinn: 'I will work to ensure that the journal continues to be a vehicle for...

Assistant director of nursing at Chelsea and Westminster NHS Foundation Trust, London, Barry...

'Patients should have access to GP waiting times for routine conditions'...

NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens said patients will be able to look up GP waiting...

New school of nursing and midwifery in Oxford

Collaboration between local organisations will see students learning in university and trust...

RCN 'worried' by trust's plan to change vacant nurse posts to nursing...

The move by East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust has attracted criticism.

Suspended sentence for nurse-turned trust chief executive

A former NHS chief executive with a background in nursing has been given a suspended prison...

NHS 111 callers to have more access to clinicians

Service alteration aims to ease pressures on wider health service.

We must not repeat previous mistakes, says former Mid Staffs trust head

Current NHS pressures are recreating the circumstances that led to disastrous failings at...

Exclusive: EU nurse figures in decline before Brexit vote

The falling number of European Union (EU) nurses applying to work in the UK has been widely...

Three in four people support pay boost for nurses, survey shows

A poll for the GMB union shows the majority of Conservative, Labour and Liberal Democrat...

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