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Should nurses help screen 999 calls to ease pressure on ambulances?
Effort to cut ambulance journeys could see nurses talk to patients who make emergency calls
16 Feb 2023
Nurse pleads guilty following deaths of two nursing home residents
Caroline Taylforth had been charged with two counts of causing avoidable harm
16 Feb 2023
Refugee nurses gain easier acceptance onto UK register
Nurses who fled their home country and lack key documents will be vetted in other ways
15 Feb 2023
Patient died after falling out of bed due to lack of nursing staff
Lack of nurses meant vulnerable patient did not receive care he needed despite staff requests
15 Feb 2023
Lucy Letby: baby girl’s seizures did not happen naturally, court told
Baby with unexplained seizures is one of ten the nurse is accused of attempting to murder
14 Feb 2023
Government urged to recognise long-COVID as an occupational disease
Parliamentary group says failure to offer nurses support will lead to more NHS tribunals
14 Feb 2023
Nurse exodus includes many ‘leaving years before retirement age’
RCN report calls for urgent pay rises and funding for career development to aid retention
14 Feb 2023
Two ‘much loved’ NHS nurses killed while on holiday in US
Tributes to nurses known for ‘kindness, empathy and enthusiasm’ who died in traffic accident
13 Feb 2023
Nurses' strikes: emergency dept, intensive care and cancer nurses set to walk out
RCN tears up agreement to protect hospital areas from strikes as Barclay refuses to budge
13 Feb 2023
Would counting students’ competencies, not practice hours, sacrifice learning quality?
Idea of qualifying faster by a move away from clinical placements threshold sparks debate
10 Feb 2023
Antiques Roadshow special to trace the history of nursing
The BBC show looks at early uniforms and stories from the Windrush generation of nurses
10 Feb 2023
Lucy Letby: neonatal nurse murdered premature infant on fourth attempt, trial hears
Baby girl’s cries before death were ‘abnormal, a different kind of crying’, jury is told
09 Feb 2023
Nurses are lying if they say they need to use food banks, MP insists
Outspoken MP says no one earning £35,000 a year should need to rely on a food bank
09 Feb 2023
Should qualifications be based on competency not clinical hours?
University Alliance suggests nursing students should be allowed to qualify on competency
08 Feb 2023
Nurse who ran slimming clinics struck off for catalogue of errors
Regulator finds lapses including failure to calibrate scales used to weigh patients
07 Feb 2023
NHS pay dispute: your concise guide to what’s on offer to staff around the UK
Find out who is on strike, who is not, who could be soon – and why
07 Feb 2023
Do you care for people with cancer and want to expand your career?
New cancer education and skills framework aims to develop nursing staff at all levels
07 Feb 2023
Nurses’ strike live: walkouts enter their sixth day
Staff begin further day of action in bid to put pressure on ministers over NHS pay talks
07 Feb 2023