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RCN publishes new guidelines for staff breaks

NHS managers are reminded of their responsibilities to ensure nursing staff can take breaks...

Nurses now able to help domestic abuse survivors register to vote anonymously

Changes to legislation mean nurses and midwives can provide supporting statements for people...

Leading safe staffing expert 'troubled' by lack of workforce investment...

Speaking at the Chief Nursing Officer summit, nurse researcher Linda Aiken criticised lack...

Wales leads the way in safe staffing bill implementation, conference told

Wales is making good progress towards fully implementing safe staffing legislation, a...

Staff engagement linked to agency spending savings, report finds

Staff motivation and involvement are not only good for employee’s health, but saves trusts’...

Nurses rumoured to be offered 6.5% pay rise

But staff must give up a day's holiday, reports say

Exclusive: Nurses working alone are victims of hundreds of assaults, investigation shows

Hundreds of nurses who work alone in the community have been victims of violence, with...

Nurses should know their shifts a year in advance, Hunt tells directors of nursing

Technology should be used to enable nurses to know their shift pattern a year in advance,...

NHS bed stocks reaching 'unsustainably' low levels as norovirus infections...

Almost 75,000 NHS beds in England have been closed due to norovirus over the course of the...

Universities must make use of government funding to boost nursing numbers, says CNO for...

England's chief nursing officer has called on universities to expand the number of nursing...

Informal learning one alternative amid CPD shortfall, chief nurse tells summit

Chief nursing officer acknowledges nurses’ frustration over funding cuts, but says...

England’s chief nurse says NHS ‘trumps every healthcare system in the world’

Jane Cummings used her summit speech to promote a new nursing recruitment campaign

NHS staff survey reveals rise in workplace pressures as well as levels of job and pay...

More than one third of NHS staff in England have experienced work-related stress in the past...

Bank nurses feel ‘cheated’ after missing out on holiday pay

London-based nurses say their right to statutory holiday pay was not made clear by NHS...

Philip Graf to succeed Dame Janet Finch as chair of NMC

Philip Graf, a law graduate who has held key roles in the media and government regulation,...

Nurse satisfaction of sufficient staffing rises by 1%, survey finds

Only 1% more health and social care staff in Scotland feel there is sufficient staffing at...

Nurses are going the extra mile despite the snow

Nurses are going above and beyond to get to work during the snow storm

Sustainability and transformation partnerships lose many nurses in maze of '...

RCN gives evidence to the Health and Social Care Committee stating that one quarter of...

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