Policies and guidance

A nurse who drugged patients to keep them quiet on an NHS stroke unit has been jailed for seven years and two months.

A pay offer for nurses may not be made before the next financial year because the government is yet to trigger the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) process for the 2024-25 pay round.

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced that it will strike Lucy Letby off its professional register.

District nurses should be able to prescribe wound dressings and nurses who want to innovate should not be held back by the “dead weight of management bureaucracy”, according to Wes Streeting.

The Welsh Government must tighten laws on minimum safe staffing levels for nurses in the country’s health boards to ensure patients are properly looked after, a new report has urged.

A group of paediatric nurses has led a petition calling for an immediate and indefinite ceasefire between Israel and Palestine to prevent further deaths and to ensure humanitarian aid can reach those impacted by the conflict.