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Bank nurse could see their NHS pensions dwindle under planned changes at three NHS hospital trusts Picture: iStock

Three trusts want to move bank nurses to an agency, slashing employer pension contributions

02 Jun 2026
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Nurses speak of concerns about levels of personal protection equipment used when administering chemotherapy drugs  Picture: iStock

Are employers doing enough to protect staff who handle chemotherapy medicines?

01 Jun 2026
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District nurse Gill Fairclough (left) was fined for using a permit issued a decade ago that was later deemed invalid, seen here with her colleague Stephanie Warman Picture: Gilli Fairclough

Call for healthcare staff exemptions after long-term permits were deemed invalid

26 May 2026
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NHS unions and the governments in England, Wales and Northern Ireland are negotiating updates to the 25-year-old Agenda for Change pay structure Picture: iStock

Our Q&A looks at what negotiations on Agenda for Change shake-up could mean for nurse pay

22 May 2026
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Nicola Ranger at RCN congress

Nicola Ranger says nurses may strike locally against trusts that resist band 5 pay increase

18 May 2026
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Tanya Nasir was struck off by the NMC in 2025  Picture: Dyfed Powys Police

Tanya Nasir fraudulently secured a neonatal unit nurse manager role and was jailed

15 May 2026
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Mental health nurses’ care failures: Mill View Hospital in Brighton

Coroner criticises failures to check patient record before tragedy, the latest at the trust

08 May 2026
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A nurse writing notes on a clipboard

He also failed to take observations and record that he had altered the scores

06 May 2026
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New NHS uniform: two nurses wearing different styles

Around 55,000 staff wear the uniform but this is less than 10% of the intended workforce

05 May 2026
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A nurse holds a tablet with a Nurse Prescribing Diploma advert on the screen

Nurses urged to read small print, as NMC-approved courses are only route to prescribing

04 May 2026
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District nurse deputy team leader Lauren Heald uses a smartphone to take a picture of a wound on a patient’s foot

Community nurses have reduced healing times and saved money in remote monitoring trial

30 Apr 2026
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Critical care staff on strike earlier in their dispute

Critical care staff plan fresh strike action in continuing dispute over reduced pay rates

29 Apr 2026

Regulator insists it kept increase to a minimum given registrants’ money pressures

29 Apr 2026
Fitness to practise panel acknowledged nurse’s ‘difficult personal circumstances’
22 Apr 2026

Rising band 7 and 8 numbers mean senior nurses may now make up 25% of NHS nurse workforce

20 Apr 2026

Investigation finds 35 out of 100 band 5 nursing roles not open to newly registered nurses

15 Apr 2026
Coroner says Janet Daniels would probably not have died if treatment had continued
14 Apr 2026
Band 5 discharge nurses go directly onto wards to identify patients ready to leave hospital
13 Apr 2026