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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 in England

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 and midwifery qualifications taken in Eng

21 Nov 2019
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RCN activists protest against the removal of the nursing bursary. They are holding banners saying '#BursaryorBust'

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

20 Nov 2019
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Picture shows the burning building in Bolton from which students were evacuated, with fire engines in a nearby street. Members of the nursing community have rallied round to help those affected.

Fellow university students and local nursing staff offer support a

19 Nov 2019
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district nurse talking to patient in her own home

Queen’s Nursing Institute calls on next government to invest in staffing as survey finds u

19 Nov 2019
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Picture shows men sitting in a row of chairs receiving free blood tests to check their PSA (prostate specific antigen) levels to screen for prostate cancer. More than 2,000 men received the test in a weekend event run by a volunteer group in Reading.

More than 2,000 men received a free blood test to screen for prostate c

18 Nov 2019
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The Welsh Labour party political broadcast featured an actor dressed as a nurse

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

Inspirational leader Jean Saunders praised for improving healthcare access for asylum

15 Nov 2019

Andrea Sutcliffe says they display a high level of knowledge, skill

14 Nov 2019

Walkout will be the first in RCN history – as Unison members plan industrial acti

14 Nov 2019

Women from ethnic minorities are more likely than white women to be emba

13 Nov 2019

Nursing teams keep patients and each other safe during flood crisis

12 Nov 2019

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