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The Nursing and Midwifery Council's average number of referrals per month from January to December 2024 was 542, representing a 17% increase compared with the same period in 2023. A nurse sits before a referral panel

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) reports that fitness to practise (FtP) referrals are i

30 Jan 2025
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Senior nurse role profiles: ward manager in team meeting. Nurses in bands 7,8 and 9 have been undervalued in roles review, RCN claims

Newly updated NHS nursing job profiles for Agenda for Change bands 7, 8 and 9 do

29 Jan 2025
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Family, friends and university colleagues have expressed shock at the death of nursing lecturer Claire Chick

A man has been charged with the murder of Claire Chick, a nursing lecturer at the Universi

27 Jan 2025
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Inquest into Vauna Leeming’s death told that in the 46 days between her surgery and her death, nursing staff failed to complete prescription charts for a total of 15 days

Coroner tells Worcestershire Royal Hospital it must urgently improve its nurses’ awareness

23 Jan 2025
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A pension remedy to fix age discrimination against younger nurses will give one option based on their income going forward and another option based on the lump sum available to them.

NHS staff including nurses may soon be able to choose from two pension

21 Jan 2025
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CPR training for nurses: nurse kneels over woman lying on the floor, placing her hands on her shoulders

A nursing home nurse who performed ‘ineffective’ cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a

20 Jan 2025
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Nurses have shared powerful testimonies describing corridor care as ‘exhausting and soul-destroying’ in a damning RCN report

More than 5,000 nurses have shared distressing accounts of delivering care in corridors, t

16 Jan 2025
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Fitness to practise: nurse struck off for prescribing Botox remotely and unsafely

Nursing and Midwifery Council fitness to practise panel found Heather Hazzard failed

14 Jan 2025
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A nurse at the Royal Oldham Hospital is in critical condition after being stabbed at the weekend

Nursing profession and others express shock and state that violence against healthcare sta

13 Jan 2025
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Long shifts and a lack of breaks make for an unsafe combination for nurses driving home on the road

Nurse leaders and a road safety charity express concerns about nurses driving ho

09 Jan 2025
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Ward manager suspended from NMC register after failing to complete bank shifts on her own ward: nurse consults staff rota on calendar

Band 7 ward manager was suspended from the Nursing and Midwifery Council register for repe

07 Jan 2025
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Senior nursing job profiles review: two nurses on shift updating a white board in a staff area

 The NHS Staff Council has extended the consultation period on its review of job prof

06 Jan 2025

Nurses from across the UK awarded honours including CBE, OBE, MBE and BE

30 Dec 2024

Coroner tells Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust it must improve nursing and medi

19 Dec 2024

Proposals to introduce professional regulation for NHS managers include&nbsp

17 Dec 2024

Defence lawyers for former neonatal nurse Lucy Letby, who was convicted of murdering seven

16 Dec 2024

With a 14% rise in concerns raised to the Nursing and Midwifery Council in 2023-24, data re

12 Dec 2024

The Department of Health and Social Care has submitted evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body

11 Dec 2024

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