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End of life care at home: the front line forgotten in the pandemic

Hospice and community-based nursing care deserves more recognition and funding – Marie Curie

Overseas nurses granted free automatic visa extensions

Eligible staff and their dependents to receive extra year as COVID-19 response continues

Scottish pay deal: Unison advises nurses to accept 4% offer

Union urges members to vote for the deal while RCN and GMB hold out for bigger increase

COVID-19 vaccine: nursing staff outside the NHS in longer wait for second jab

Gap in coverage between nurses working for the NHS and those in other sectors

COVID-19: nurses’ video urges peers to ‘protect your patients’ and get vaccine

Nursing team also address concerns among people from minority ethnic backgrounds

Pioneering safe staffing whistleblower nurse dies aged 91

Graham Pink's campaigning helped establish the protections whistleblowers receive today

Candidates announced for 2021 RCN presidential election

Voting to take place via postal ballot and greater social media use permitted in campaigning

Nurse training and education standards: is there anything you’d like to see change?

NMC survey asks for your views on issues including minimum entry requirements

RCN urges nurses to help achieve UN’s goals on health and the environment

College marks World Health Day with call to support sustainable development goals

Friend of nurse who died of COVID-19 wins nursing scholarship in her memory

Award will help clinical support worker to realise her career ambition to qualify as a nurse

Call bells and sexism: what nurses say about gendered dress-and-cap symbols

Nurse prompts Twitter debate on impact of out-dated imagery on bedside buzzers

RCN offers nurses ‘campaign’ training ahead of possible strike ballot

Online course will teach nurses how they can campaign for significant pay rise

Unsafe in our ICU: more than 200 nursing staff call on trust to take action

Critical care staff prompt RCN’s written appeal over nurse-patient ratios and burnout

Nurse pay and benefits: enough of the applause and empty plaudits, says think thank

IPPR warns that government must improve workforce strategy to retain healthcare staff

NHS pay: can posters in windows change ministers’ minds on a 1% deal?

Unions urge public to show their support for a ‘proper’ pay increase for nurses

Backdated holiday pay for NHS nurses: unions reach money deal over ‘historic error’

Nurses have been out-of-pocket after employers ignored regular overtime in payroll...

Community nurses too ‘fatigued’ to respond to NMC consultation, QNI says

Nursing group doubts meaningful engagement with education revamp is possible amid pandemic

Virtual fitness to practise hearings will continue beyond COVID-19, says NMC

RCN pledges to work with regulators to ensure virtual hearings maintain fairness

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