Blood tube shortage: what nurses need to know
Non-urgent primary care and community testing in England halted until 17 September
27 Aug 2021
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Voluntary retirement from the NHS: do you understand why nurses want an early exit?
Numbers have shown upward trend over past decade
26 Aug 2021
Hospital parking fees scrapped permanently for all NHS staff in Scotland
RCN hopes move will prompt England and Northern Ireland to follow suit
26 Aug 2021
Preceptorship: new registrants want more support in their first workplace
We need protected learning time and regular study days, say newly qualified nurses
25 Aug 2021
Sepsis diagnosis: overworked nurses fail to assess patients within an hour – study
Sepsis Six protocol training should be mandatory for all nurses, says lead author
24 Aug 2021
CNO resignations: Scotland and Northern Ireland chief nurses to step down
Charlotte McArdle and Amanda Croft have both announced they are leaving their posts
23 Aug 2021
UK-based Australian nurses offered £4,200 relocation costs to tempt them home
Non-Australians can also apply for scheme from Western Australian government
20 Aug 2021
Patient who attacked and threatened ED nurses gets four-month suspended sentence
Martynas Dagilis admitted attacking and injuring one nurse and threatening another
19 Aug 2021
Race campaigner criticises trust over ‘I’m new here’ badges for nurses from overseas
Equality 4 Black Nurses founder said singling out foreign recruits was outrageous
18 Aug 2021
Pay offer of 3% for Northern Ireland nurses
Offer in line with pay review body recommendation but won’t reach pay packets until November
18 Aug 2021
GOSH issues badges to help ‘empower’ overseas nurses
London hospital wants to stress that nurses new to UK are highly skilled
16 Aug 2021
We resign: more than 200 nursing staff quit trust in six months
Departures from NHS are no surprise – given the pressures nursing staff face, says union
13 Aug 2021
Nurses urged to have their say as RCN opens ballot on England and Wales 3% pay deal
RCN, Unison, GMB and Unite all have open ballots that could pave the way to further action
12 Aug 2021
The bullying stops here: hospital reveals plan to end abusive workplace culture
Emergency department nurses blew the whistle on distressing behaviour
12 Aug 2021
After being spat at, grabbed and hit, nurse urges NHS staff to report attacks on Datix
Incidents go unreported because many nurses don’t know how, warns Stephen McKenna
11 Aug 2021
Fluid monitoring must improve, CQC tells two hospitals after discovering multiple lapses
Staff frequently failed to complete fluid balance charts – even after coroner’s warning
11 Aug 2021
New nursing student numbers up 8% on last year’s university intake
More than 26,700 students will begin nursing programmes amid ‘pandemic effect’
10 Aug 2021
Nursing associate fronts HIV awareness campaign
The Terrence Higgins Trust campaign highlights achievements of people with HIV
10 Aug 2021