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Health unions are strengthening their fight against controversial proposals by employers to change nurses' national terms and conditions. The RCN, Unite, Unison and the Royal College of Midwives last week [...]

Those inside and outside the profession want to know what constitutes good care, the barriers to providing it and what support nurses need to deliver it. For this reason, care [...]

Nurses' entitlement to paid annual leave, incremental pay progression and sick leave, all covered by Agenda for Change, is being threatened by employers across England. Introduced in 2004, Agenda for [...]

George Eliot Hospital NHS Trust in Nuneaton, Warwickshire, began recruiting an extra 42 whole-time equivalent band 5 nurses in April as part of a strategy to increase its nurse to [...]

Hundreds of nurses have become disability assessment specialists at the French firm Atos Healthcare since 2008. The company is contracted by the Department for Work and Pensions to undertake work [...]

For consultant midwife Yana Richens, 2011 has been a good year. She was awarded an OBE in the New Year honours list, was joint winner of a Royal College of [...]

Winning a Mary Seacole award is an achievement in itself, but as two of last year's winners have found, it also open doors. The awards, established to honour Mrs Seacole [...]

The recent health service ombudsman's report about the appalling neglect of ten older patients in NHS hospitals is part of a bigger picture of complaints. Out of 101,077 written complaints [...]

Great Ormond Street Hospital for children and Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center in Ohio, one of the leading paediatric hospitals in the United States (US), have fostered a partnership since [...]

MOST PEOPLE will remember the angry voter who, m 2001, confronted the then prime minister Tony Blair on the election trail. Sharon Storer's attack on Mr Blair was over the [...]

As the recently re-elected deputy president of the RCN, Cecilia Anim hopes to raise the profile of learning disability nursing. Her ambition to boost the specialist branch of nursing as [...]

Trusts in England are investigating how to set up pay cartels that would drive down nurses' terms and conditions. A spokesperson for the south west pay consortium, a group of [...]

From April next year public health commissioning responsibilities will be transferred from the NHS to local authorities, and the changeover will herald radical changes in public health services. Under plans [...]

Ward sisters at one of England's largest trusts will get help with 'back office' tasks to allow them to spend 75 per cent of their time on clinical leadership. University [...]

Nursing and Midwifery Council members have reacted furiously after the recruitment of the regulator's new chair was put on hold. Interviews planned for next week have been called off after [...]

Going on a date with a patient could easily lead to a fitness to practise referral--but until the 1970s it was almost part of the job for psychiatric nurses. Female [...]

Care workers will be expected to follow a code of conduct and minimum training standards as part of social care reforms unveiled by the government. A long-awaited white paper on [...]

Hospital nurses received the lowest rating for the care they give to dying patients, while hospice staff were ranked highest in a survey of 20,000 bereaved people. The Office for [...]

Fears that a disproportionate number of staff who are black or from minority ethnic backgrounds are losing their jobs as a result of public sector cuts has caused health unions [...]

Nurses transferring to local authority employment as a result of NHS reforms fear they could lose the legal protection of existing terms and conditions, a conference heard. Under changes introduced [...]

RCN general secretary Peter Carter is planning to meet deputy prime minister Nick Clegg to explain why the college opposes regional pay. The meeting, which the college is trying to [...]

High numbers of patients are reporting trust and confidence in the nurses caring for them, but nurses themselves are less likely to recommend their ward to a friend or relative. [...]

Nurses caring for older people must be given time at the end of each shift to discuss the emotional effects of their work, a commission established to improve care has [...]

Most nurses who want to top up their diploma qualification to a degree will receive no financial support from employers, research by Nursing Standard shows. A snapshot survey of NHS [...]

The RCN has reiterated concerns that new organisations being set up to take over the commissioning of pre and post-registration nurse education and training do not have sufficient nurse involvement. [...]

Only nurses whose performance is judged to be excellent will receive incremental pay rises under proposals being discussed by unions and employers, Nursing Standard can reveal. The RCN confirmed that [...]

A panel of nursing experts set up by the prime minister to improve nursing care has strengthened calls for ward sisters to be supernumerary. The nursing and care quality forum, [...]

Nursing staff may face increasing problems accessing training this financial year because funding set aside for the purpose is likely to be 'raided' by cash-strapped strategic health authorities. The warning [...]

Underperforming nurses could be offered additional support from clinical tutors as part of prime minister David Cameron's drive to improve the quality of care. The proposal is one of a [...]

The physical demands of nursing will force increasing numbers to leave the profession due to ill health if they are required to work until they are 68, RCN congress heard [...]

Genetic blood disorders sickle cell and thalassaemia affect 12,500 and 800 people respectively in England. Yet there are no official figures on the number of nurses specialising in the diseases, [...]

Cuts to adult social care funding are piling pressure on more than three quarters of community nurses, according to research by the RCN. Seventy six per cent of respondents to [...]

A UK-wide review of learning disability nursing has sparked concerns that there are not enough nurses to cope with the growing number of people with learning disabilities. The review, commissioned [...]

The tone of voice and body language used by nurses can be judged, but care is a concept that is too vague to measure, according to a nursing lecturer. John [...]

Health union Unison is to increase pressure on the government for mandatory nurse-to-patient ratios after conducting a survey that found most nurses are struggling due to inadequate staffing levels. The [...]

Nine leading experts have been asked by the RCN to make recommendations on the future of pre-registration nurse education in the UK. The expert commission, chaired by former head teacher [...]

Nurses are being urged to boycott a survey that gauges their views on annual leave and pay because of concerns that it will lead to an erosion of terms and [...]

Hundreds of newly qualified nurses are missing out on mandatory pay increases worth 1,500 [pounds sterling]. Under Agenda for Change (AfC) rules, new entrants join at the bottom of band [...]

Hospitals that offer dementia screening to at least 90 per cent of people aged 75 and over admitted in emergencies will be financially rewarded, the prime minister announced last week. [...]

Pay rises are continuing to be withheld from nurses who exceed a sick leave limit, despite a landmark tribunal ruling the move unlawful. The RCN is putting pressure on trusts [...]

Nurse leaders have condemned changes to immigration rules that will mean hundreds of overseas nurses who came to work in the UK last year are forced to return to their [...]

Hundreds of newly qualified nurses and midwives in Scotland are applying for part-time internships because they cannot find full-time work, Nursing Standard has learned. The number of graduates applying for [...]

Public sector workers earn on average 8 per cent more than their private sector counterparts, the Treasury said in evidence to support regional pay. In its submission to the NHS [...]

Hundreds more school nurses are needed to make the government's vision for school nursing in England a reality, according to nurse leaders. Nurses were responding to the long-awaited publication last [...]

NHS managers have come out in favour of retaining nationally agreed pay and conditions, pitting healthcare unions and NHS trusts against chancellor George Osborne, who supports regional pay. In its [...]

A mental health trust is paying for its nurses to top up their diplomas to degrees as part of a bid to achieve an excellence in nursing quality standard. The [...]

Nurses are being trained to assess patients who may be at risk of developing cancer due to genetic factors. The Macmillan Cancer Family History Service based at James Cook University [...]

The Care Quality Commission, which regulates health and social care in England, announced in February that it will introduce an excellence awards ratings scheme for adult social care services in [...]

Ministers are coming under growing pressure from the Nursing and Midwifery Council to regulate healthcare support workers after an undercover investigation revealed abuse by care workers. The regulator said BBC's [...]

The Mary Seacole awards were established in 1994 to honour the 19th century nurse and her contribution to nursing. Six awards--four for development and two for leadership--are given to nurses, [...]