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Call to redress racial disparity for BME staff at senior level
Mental health nurses from African-Caribbean backgrounds should have more career support
14 Dec 2018
Nursing and workforce spending to go up in Scotland
Scottish Government announces budget increase – but warns of challenges to come
14 Dec 2018
Study aims to tell ‘real story of nursing’
Research will cover gender, working conditions and what attracts people to nursing
13 Dec 2018
RCN council elections: college announces winning candidates
Twelve positions around the UK were contested
12 Dec 2018
‘We’ll get this’ – trust’s promise to EU nurses facing a bill after Brexit
What Oxford University Hospitals is prepared to do to keep its EU staff
12 Dec 2018
Doctors’ use of phrase ‘acting down’ offends nurses
Medical staff in survey were describing when they undertook nursing tasks
11 Dec 2018
Ruth May is named chief nursing officer for England
She will take her place on the newly formed NHS Executive Group
11 Dec 2018
Scottish government offers to reimburse settled status fees to EU nurses after Brexit
Supply of nursing staff from the European Union is a critical issue for Scotland – Sturgeon
10 Dec 2018
NHS organisations must ‘axe the fax’ by 2020
Fax machines will be phased out to improve patient safety and cyber security
10 Dec 2018
‘Mental health services need to do more to promote black nurses’
Nurses of African or Caribbean heritage should have more career support, review states
07 Dec 2018
Not good enough: RCN’s verdict on pay offer to NHS nurses in Northern Ireland
College consults members on what they want to do now
07 Dec 2018
RCN poll reveals concern that lack of nurses compromises patient safety
Survey of UK public also finds more than half demand more funding for nursing students
07 Dec 2018
Nursing apprenticeships: MPs move to inject momentum into stalling programme
Cross-party group wants a more flexible approach to funding and supernumerary status
06 Dec 2018
Hospital parking: trust offers staff incentives to leave their cars at home
Nurses at the Royal Victoria in Belfast face calls to commute by public transport
05 Dec 2018
Nurse-led community-acquired pneumonia screening halves hospital mortality
Acute medical admissions model should be used to ease NHS winter pressures, say researchers
05 Dec 2018
Health visitor role in Scotland given new banding, with salary to match
Re-evaluation agreed with NHS employers will add more than £5,000 to starting pay
04 Dec 2018
Nurses say they value hospital volunteers, but worry about the tasks they’re given
Survey is the first time NHS staff have been asked what they think of ward volunteers
04 Dec 2018
NMC targets diversity with more BME members on panels
Regulator says new appointments increase BME representation, but there is still ‘more to do’
03 Dec 2018