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Nurses on the Isle of Man are set to receive a 2.5% pay rise following an arbitrated agreement with unions.

01 Aug 2017
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MPs Karen Lee and Maria Caulfield

A Conservative MP and cancer nurse who voted against removing the public sector pay cap has been accused of ‘hypocrisy’ after agreeing to host a Scr

01 Aug 2017
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Where appropriate, patients are encouraged to sit rather than lie
01 Aug 2017
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The heads of the RCN and Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have written to a national newspaper to complain about the negative portrayal of nurses in one of

31 Jul 2017
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England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings says GPs must implement the new action plan for practice nursing. 

28 Jul 2017
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The RCN will ballot members over industrial action later this year if the government continues its refusal to scrap the pay cap, the college’s gener

28 Jul 2017
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Nurse protests in Gateshead
40 events held as part of Scrap the Cap campaign
27 Jul 2017
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Doctors’ orders to 'complete the course' for some antibiotics may be wrong, and patients should stop treatment when they feel better, according to an art

27 Jul 2017
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Call from RCN on national day of campaigning
27 Jul 2017
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Nurses are training firefighters across Bradford and Airedale to identify people over 65 at risk of falling. 

26 Jul 2017
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Nurses and other NHS staff in Scotland are facing increasing workload pressures due to a government failure to plan its workforce, according to a ne

25 Jul 2017
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Janet Davies
Pay restraint and Brexit to blame for falling numbers and rising vacancies, say unions
25 Jul 2017
Staff accommodation block to be built at a hospital in Lincolnshire
25 Jul 2017

NHS staff wellbeing is suffering under the strain of increasing service pressures at the potential cost of patient care, according to a report by the Point of Care Foundation. 

21 Jul 2017

An eye care company is offering £1 million worth of laser eye surgery to nurses and other NHS and emergency services workers.

21 Jul 2017
College to stage Scrap the Cap rally in September
21 Jul 2017

Report by MPs and peers says the NHS should use ‘arts-on-prescription’ programmes in an effort to improve patients’ health and well-being.

20 Jul 2017

Only one in five referrals to fitness to practise proceedings concern patient care.

19 Jul 2017

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