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Investigations into abuse of mental health patients have almost doubled in three years, reports The Times.

07 Aug 2017
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Male nursing student

Bursary aims to address gender imbalance on courses.

04 Aug 2017
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A campaigning group of European nurses are set to meet with the Nursing and Midwifery Council to press for the pass mark for English language tests

04 Aug 2017
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Money wasted

The NHS needs to put its house in order and improve standards before it can justify asking central government for more cash, the man leading a

04 Aug 2017
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Comforting colleagues

More attention should be paid to helping mental health nurses manage their reactions to verbal abuse, an academic has suggested.

03 Aug 2017
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Shifting budgets

RCN Scotland says that focus on spending cuts and short-term financial planning is proving to be damaging

02 Aug 2017
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John Radcliffe Hospital

Two wards of inpatient beds at a hospital trauma unit are to be transferred after a report revealed ‘serious and embedded fire safety risks’.

02 Aug 2017
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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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Nurse Shirley Hannan has retired after 57 years working for the NHS.

31 Jul 2017
But RCN says 'more hard cash' needed to make plans reality
31 Jul 2017

Doctors have warned that plans for 'brutal' NHS cuts are shrouded in secrecy and will cause uproar once revealed.

28 Jul 2017

Approximately 25 beds closed to admissions at Altnagelvin Area Hospital to ensure patient safety.

28 Jul 2017

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

28 Jul 2017

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 general secretary has warned.

28 Jul 2017
40 events held as part of Scrap the Cap campaign
27 Jul 2017

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