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Boris Johnson sits around a table talking to nurses at West Cornwall Hospital

Staff at West Cornwall Hospital grill prime minister on financial hardship and nurse

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration of a nurse writing on a staff rota board, with healthcare assistant and nurse numbers recorded

Health Foundation says HCAs and nursing associates are filling recruitm

28 Nov 2019
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Nurses looking for a job

RCN employment survey finds pressures and lack of management support are often to blame

28 Nov 2019
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Illustration showing a clockface with a person resting on one of the hands. Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation supports nurses napping on breaks during long shifts as a safeguarding principle.

Trust encourages nurses to treat breaks as critical rest time, particularly on n

26 Nov 2019
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Scales of justice in the foreground, a gavel in the background

Nurse Colleridge Bessong accuses Pennine Care Trust over service user’s violent assault&nb

26 Nov 2019
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Prime minister Boris Johnson speaks at a podium, holding aloft the Conservatives' 2019 election manifesto
Conservatives have resisted calls to reinstate the nursing student bursary
25 Nov 2019
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Brittany McArthur

Brittany McArthur recognised by university for demonstrating compa

25 Nov 2019
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Aileen Coomber

Aileen Coomber, RCNi’s 2017 Bank Nurse award winner, was part of the NHS at 70 celebration

22 Nov 2019
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Greater Manchester Police sign

Nurse was forced to hand over sharps box during incident in Greater Man

22 Nov 2019
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young woman sits a written test
Regulator plans to abolish time limit on nursing qualifications taken in English
21 Nov 2019
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St Bernards Hospital

West London NHS Trust admits nurse sustained back injury due to defective c

20 Nov 2019
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Illustration of sepsis

System warns staff if a patient may be at risk of the condition

20 Nov 2019

Leaked report reveals ‘toxic’ culture stretching back 40 years

20 Nov 2019

Parties’ parliamentary candidates compete for nurses’ votes ahead of 2019 general election

20 Nov 2019

Fellow university students and local nursing staff offer support after flats destroyed

19 Nov 2019
Queen’s Nursing Institute calls on next government to invest in staffing
19 Nov 2019

Parties must clarify use of actors if the audience could be ‘misled’ by their appearance

15 Nov 2019

Jean Higgins ran an early nurse recruitment agency set up for the benefit of the NHS

15 Nov 2019

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