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Measles outbreak: cases are on the rise

Your quick guide to public health messaging, symptom recognition and infection control

16 Jul 2025
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Extra patient deaths: an EU nurse leaving the UK

Study suggests when EU nurses left UK, it affected nursing skill mix as well as outcomes

07 May 2025
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Nurse suspended from NMC register for misconduct: NMC headquarters brass plaque

Practice nurse lacked insight into her actions, despite years of delivering good care

06 May 2025
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Ivy Dixon died from a cardiac arrest when she choked on her food at Acorn Lodge Care Home in London

Prevention of future deaths report finds staff may have lacked clinical skills to save her

01 May 2025
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An employment tribunal found Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust failed to make reasonable adjustments at work following senior nurse’s brain haemorrhage

Support from Mersey Care NHS Foundation Trust delayed or denied on return post-haemorrhage

29 Apr 2025
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Holiday pay cuts and parking hikes: nurse paying for parking at meter

Unions criticise ‘double blow’ of proposed pay reduction and 8.5% parking fee increase

28 Apr 2025
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Claire Chick was subjected to months of stalking and violence before fatal stabbing

25 Apr 2025
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From 1 May, NHS nursing staff in England, including bank workers, can transfer completed statutory and mandatory training between organisations

Change will mean nursing staff no longer have to repeat already completed training

23 Apr 2025
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Nurse suspended by NMC: a hand filling in a timesheet

NMC panel hears Julie Deuchars submitted 45 claims for shifts she didn’t work

22 Apr 2025
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NHS recruitment freezes and newly registered nurses: young nurse and colleague at a ward drugs trolley

Newly qualified staff are struggling to find jobs and belt-tightening is hitting bank pay

18 Apr 2025
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New measures will support nursing staff from minority ethnic backgrounds with their career progression

Health secretary has accepted non-pay commitments including career reviews and support

16 Apr 2025
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Matrons and ward leaders at Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust sport their new uniforms, led by chief nursing officer Kevin Parker-Evans

Staff say wearing their new uniforms helps identify them with patients and colleagues

15 Apr 2025

Revised plans welcomed, but union warns fewer graduates will worsen NHS staff shortages

11 Apr 2025

Script from nurse, who worked for a sports nutrition firm, aroused pharmacist’s suspicions

10 Apr 2025

Government dashes hopes among some for a bespoke pay structure for the profession

09 Apr 2025

Our podcast reviews this week's hot topics, including an 8% nursing pay offer

09 Apr 2025

Nursing staff to get 8% pay rise over two years, ensuring top UK pay says health secretary

08 Apr 2025

University degree receives positive feedback, supporting study around home/work duties

03 Apr 2025