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Photo of woman looking concerned about bill, illustrating story about nursing students' financial worries

RCN survey finds two-thirds of nursing students have considered leaving their course due t

29 Jun 2023
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Nurse from Nigeria Virginia Enyidede shows her bus pass app on her phone

Support package is designed to ease foreign nurses’ transition to working and living in th

29 Jun 2023
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RCN members on a picket line on May Day 2023 in Exeter, Devon: nurses have expressed their frustration after a bid to secure further strike action came to an end

Social media posts show a profession let down by punitive trade union laws – and a continu

28 Jun 2023
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Photo of Michael Rosen, who will speak at Nursing Live event

The poet and broadcaster will discuss his near-fatal COVID-19 experience and the care he r

28 Jun 2023
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Court sketch shows Lucy Letby being questioned by her defence counsel

Nurse’s barrister tells murder trial jury the research paper used by the prosecution

28 Jun 2023
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RCN general secretary Pat Cullen in front of picketing nurses in Leeds

Large majority of nurses in RCN ballot voted to push ahead with further walkouts, but numb

27 Jun 2023
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Nurses on the picket line outside the RCN offices by Cardiff University Hospital in December 2022

July strikes have been paused as Welsh Government agrees to discuss the non-pay elements o

27 Jun 2023
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Photo of Rosemary Gallagher speaking at the UK COVID-19 Inquiry hearing

RCN’s Rose Gallagher also tells UK COVID-19 Inquiry that government failed to consult nurs

27 Jun 2023
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Nurse part shields her face with mask bearing image of Australian flag

Far more nurses educated in the UK move to practise in Australia and New Zealand than the

26 Jun 2023
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Poor working conditions and corridor care are driving some registered nurses to take 

26 Jun 2023
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Photo of RCN ballot paper, illustrating story about members receiving ballot papers too late or not at all

RCN members vent their frustration on social media at papers not received or received too

23 Jun 2023
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The proposed changes that would protect striking nurses from the threat of the sack were r

22 Jun 2023

Inconsistent records, a text and internet searches show the accused nurse lied about Child

22 Jun 2023

Anti-racism policies will have limited impact if cultural racism is not addressed among sen

22 Jun 2023

Health secretary Steve Barclay says ‘we need to grow our domestic supply’ to cut over-relia

21 Jun 2023

Strike action is close to hitting ‘the end of the road’ if 50% of RCN members do not get th

21 Jun 2023

Bank staff among thousands told they will not automatically get one-off payment, as Steve B

20 Jun 2023

Accused nurse was ‘cold, calculated, cruel and relentless’ and used babies’ vulnerabil

20 Jun 2023

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