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Nursing bank shift pay cuts: illustration showing a hand holding a pair of scissors as the person starts to cut into a red UK pound sign

Nurses face pay rates well below what they deserve, as trusts risk exacerbating shortages

29 Apr 2025
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Nurse dishonesty: CV has the word ‘false’ stamped across it in red letters

Public trust is precious, and nurses should be able to rely on colleagues’ high standards

11 Mar 2025
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Nurses performing CPR: debrief conversations as well as education updates are essential

With a rise in CPR-related referrals to the NMC, what nurses need is support

18 Feb 2025
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Regulation of NHS managers: an NHS manager speaks to a staff member at a hospital nurses station

The proposal for a regulating body that holds managers to account is a step forward

21 Jan 2025
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New NHS national uniforms in different colourways are designed to better distinguish nursing and other occupational groups 

New NHS uniform has its critics, but perhaps it’s not such a bad idea

03 Dec 2024
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A student nurse cares for an injured older patient. Placements help students build confidence and experience through hands-on care

Placement hours are a big commitment, but they also build skills and confidence

19 Nov 2024
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Newly qualified nurses are having to seek employment elsewhere to make ends meet, such as in coffee shops or in retail. Picture shows a female barista making coffee

We have new registrants unable to get NHS jobs, despite chronic nurse shortages

14 Oct 2024
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Patients can be misled when the word ‘nurse’ is part of the title of a non-registered role

Healthcare support staff are invaluable, but inflated titles do them no favours either

16 Sep 2024
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Nurse retention: steep rise in newly registered nurses quitting profession means action is needed to boost morale and reduce burnout

Here’s how to give newly registered nurses – and all nurses – the workplaces they deserve 

13 Aug 2024
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Smiling nurse helps patient get up from bed, showing how ward nurse intervention is important in preventing inpatient falls

How a hospital team has all-but eliminated falls in a simple but systematic way

23 Jul 2024
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Image shows a member of healthcare staff facing an open cupboard and holding a plastic bottle of medication

Why I find it hard to swallow nurse’s six-month suspension for taking ward painkillers

02 Jul 2024
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Blurred image of healthcare professionals moving at high speed with a hospital trolley along a corridor, suggesting the time and workload pressures facing emergency department staff

Patient’s death tells us what we already know, but will it change anything?

14 May 2024

Why older nurses are an asset to their communities – and to the NHS

16 Apr 2024

Nurses are flexible but there has to be give and take if the NHS is to boost retention

19 Mar 2024

Safety-critical care is what we do, yet some of us can’t resist the urge to downplay

20 Feb 2024

Using staff as cash cows if they drive to work shows how far goodwill has fallen in the NHS

16 Jan 2024

Guilt may send you to work when ill – but at the heart of the problem is staff shortages

13 Dec 2023

System-wide change is needed so nurses can be confident reports will be dealt with

21 Nov 2023