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The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) is asking its members about their appetite for further strike action, as a new poll shows the public supports nurses taking industrial action in 2024. One year on from the RCN’s first strikes in its ongoing pay dispute with the government, the college is…

The health and social care secretary has defended the government’s latest immigration plans, which would see overseas care workers prevented from bringing their dependents to the UK. Victoria Atkins told the Health and Social Care Committee this week that new plans to curb the number of immigrant care workers were…

A decline in health visitors in England has coincided with an increase in families attending A&E with concerns about their babies, new research reveals. The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV) said the findings showed that cuts to health visiting were a “false economy” and called for action to boost numbers…

Specialist nurse input is highly beneficial in the management of chronic cough and the role should be developed, according to latest UK guidelines on the condition, which backs multidisciplinary teams. New guidance that aims to support respiratory nurses and other clinicians with the management of chronic cough in routine clinical…

A university in East Anglia is aiming to attract more student nurses onto its courses by challenging “the stereotypes of nursing”. Anglia Ruskin University has said it wants its new recruitment video to “bust myths around the profession” that may prevent some people from considering nursing as a career. "There’s…

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 health and social care secretary, Victoria Atkins, said ministers were trying to bring the PRB process…

A nurse who drugged patients to keep them quiet on an NHS stroke unit has been jailed for seven years and two months. Catherine Hudson, 54, was sentenced today at Preston Crown Court for three counts of ill-treating patients and one count of conspiracy to ill-treat while working at Blackpool…

Nurses and other clinicians are being given a new cholesterol target for patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the hope of preventing further cases of stroke or heart attack. The “secondary prevention” target is a first of its kind from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and…

England's chief nursing officer (CNO), the nursing regulator and other health leaders have pledged support for nurses during winter and offered assurances about "working under pressure" while also maintaining standards. The remarks were made in a joint letter to all healthcare workers about what support is available to them, ahead…

Nurses are among public sector workers facing a “lottery” when it comes to who pays for essential criminal record checks, Unison has said. New research from the union, published this month, has shown that four in ten (42%) frontline workers in roles requiring these checks are being forced to pay…