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Leaked NHS email highlights flaws in nurse retention plan
Government’s pledge for 50,000 more nurses rests on ‘weak’ proposals on retention
Coronavirus: community nurses begin training to carry out home testing
Concern about how district and primary care staff will find the time for extra home visits
Chief nurse appoints first ever national adviser on care home nursing
Deborah Sturdy will pass on advice from front-line nurses to set policy and best practice
Abolish the NMC: MP hits out at decision not to strike off ‘bullying’ nurse director
Helen Lockett was suspended for failing to report risks to patient safety
Immigration plans will ‘close the door’ to vital healthcare staff – RCN
College says new policy will shut out ‘lower-paid support workers and care assistants’
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Violence in the NHS: almost a quarter of nurses tell survey about being attacked
Latest NHS Staff Survey reveals assaults, patient safety, and work stresses as key concerns
Meet the twin sisters with identical nursing careers
Rali and Petya Marinova qualified in the same specialty and work together on the same ward
RCN congress 2020: your chance to vote on urgent nursing issues
Topics include unpredictable shift patterns, corridor care and assisted dying
BME nurses – the NHS staff most likely to face discrimination at work
NHS WRES report quantifies the harassment, abuse and discrimination BME staff experience
Coronavirus: nurse in self-isolation says process is ‘not being dealt with effectively’
Anyone asked to go into self-isolation should stay at home for 14 days, says PHE
UK burns specialist matron flies to New Zealand to care for volcanic eruption patients
Lucy Hall responded to appeal for international help to relieve over-stretched nurses