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RCN Northern Ireland director, Pat Cullen, with striking members on a picket line in Belfast
Unions suspend industrial action after securing offer in crunch talks with health minist
16 Jan 2020
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Picture shows a young woman looking at a screen. Nurses are urged to share stories of front-line care delivery in an RCN survey.
Nurses are urged to share stories of front-line care delivery in an RCN survey
16 Jan 2020
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Professor Jean Orr, founder of the Queen's University Belfast School of Nursing and Midwifery

Professor Orr founded the school of nursing and midwifery at Queen’s University Belfast

14 Jan 2020
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Robin Swann with government colleagues

Government also gives commitments on safe staffing following historic s

14 Jan 2020
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striking nurses and other NHS staff outside the Ulster Hospital

Fresh hope for end to pay and staffing dispute in Northern Ireland

13 Jan 2020
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woman lies on a hospital trolley in front of a window in a hospital reception area
Nurses reveal the risks they are witnessing to patient safety and dignity
10 Jan 2020
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Picture shows a teenage girl sitting across a table across from a physician. The NHS rejects a think tank’s claim that more than one in four children and young people referred to specialist mental health services are rejected for treatment.
The NHS says think tank’s claims are flawed and based on wrong assumptions
10 Jan 2020
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RCNi Nurse Awards 2020 logo

Grab the chance to promote nursing’s excellence, compassion and commitm

09 Jan 2020
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Nursing Standard wants to hear nurses' views on corridor care, after emergency department attendances in England hit a record high in December 2019

Nursing Standard wants your views on ‘corridor care’ as emergency attendanc

09 Jan 2020
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Northern Ireland nurses strike

One nurse says staff are ‘at the point of complete burnout’

08 Jan 2020
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Susan Evans on the This Morning TV programme

Susan Evans claims NHS trust is prescribing drugs to children ‘as

07 Jan 2020
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collage of faces of some of the nurses named in the new year's honours list

Nurses from diverse settings and specialties honoured for services to the profession

27 Dec 2019
Charges waived for nurses and other NHS staff on night shifts and some patients and parents
27 Dec 2019
Alison Dinning brings insights from clinical leadership and workforce development roles
20 Dec 2019
New report says NHS must be equipped to deal with this 'public health pandemic'
19 Dec 2019

Prime minister announces further £3,000 a year for hard-to-recruit disciplines

18 Dec 2019

Number of nurses approaching retirement age is growing quicker than the number of under-30s 

17 Dec 2019

Joanne Hill praises nurse who cared for her and ‘really made an impact on my life’ 

16 Dec 2019

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