NHS pay cap scrapped but Health Secretary won’t rule out cuts to services
Jeremy Hunt has told MPs the NHS pay cap has been scrapped, but was unable to rule out cutting health services to fund rises above 1%. The Health Secretary said
Read More
Log In
Sign Up
Tag: Nursing / Midwifery
Trust with 500 nursing vacancies considers filling roles with other staff
A trust with around 500 nursing vacancies has admitted it is having difficulty recruiting and said it is considering filling some roles with other staff. The number of vacant nursing
Read More
Former care worker and student nurse wins award after returning to University
A single mother from Treherbert in the Rhondda Fawr valley has won an award for her dedication to her Nursing studies at the University of South Wales (USW). Kathryn Ace, 32,
Read More
Health Secretary pledges to boost nurse training places by 5,000
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced a 25% increase in nurse training places to boost numbers of home-grown NHS staff as Britain leaves the EU. The additional 5,000 places will
Read More
Nursing shortage sees too many patients dying alone on understaffed wards
Patients are dying alone in NHS hospitals because there are too few staff to care for them, according to a new report. A survey of more than 30,000 nurses found
Read More
Portree Hospital nurses asked to do catering duties in ‘extreme’ staff shortage
Hospital nurses are having to take on catering duties because of “extreme” staffing issues. The move at Portree Hospital on Skye has been branded “completely inappropriate” and raised fears over
Read More
Health unions send above inflation 3.9% pay claim to Chancellor Philip Hammond
Leaders of more than a million health workers have submitted an above inflation pay claim directly to the Government, ramping up pressure for an end to years of wage austerity.
Read More
2,000 nurses to gather outside Parliament in protest over public sector pay cap
Two thousand nurses are expected to hold a demonstration over pay in Parliament Square today. Beginning immediately after the first Prime Minister’s Questions of the new parliamentary year, the rally
Read More
Researchers issue safety warning over unqualified support workers working in NHS
Unqualified support workers are practising in the NHS with job titles that describe them as nurses with advanced skills, experts have warned. A new study found that thousands of nursing
Read More
RCN Scotland warn projected rise in staff numbers not enough to keep pace with demand
A projected rise in the number of nursing and midwifery staff working in Scotland’s NHS is not enough to keep pace with increasing patient demand, a representative body has warned.
Read More