Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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A motion calling for a reduction in clinical placement hours for nursing students was defeated at RCN congress.
Nurse debriefing sessions can be an effective way to provide psychological support and to learn lessons, RCN congress heard.
Increase research into autism spectrum conditions, urge nurses.
Resolution passed at RCN congress declares UK system still offers the fairest method of providing healthcare for all
Nurses are being treated ‘like dirt’ by the government, Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron has told the RCN congress in Liverpool.
Plus EU citizens working in NHS will be given right to remain, Labour leader has pledged.
Some employers are withholding pay increments from nurses who do not complete statutory and mandatory training, according to an RCN specialist group.
There is ‘a real and significant’ risk to patients if nursing education is not properly funded, nurses have said.
Nurses raise concerns over the way night and day shifts run into each other.
Jeremy Corbyn and Tim Farron will today address delegates in Liverpool and take questions from nurses, but Conservatives yet to confirm if they will send a speaker.
RCN president Cecilia Anim has urged nurses to make their voices heard following the announcement of a summer of protests over pay.
The result of the RCN pay poll of members working in the NHS has resulted in an overwheming number of respondents favouring strike action.
Nurses should not be reduced to using foodbanks, said Cecilia Anim in an impassioned speech at the opening of RCN congress 2017 in Liverpool.
The cap on nurse pay must be lifted and nurse bursaries reintroduced, Greater Manchester mayor Andy Burnham said on the opening day of RCN congress in Liverpool.
Free resources will help nurses and other healthcare professionals share best practice through publishing.
More than 100 nurses sign a letter to Theresa May warning that the pay cap is causing hardship and forcing some to leave the profession
