Alison Stacey

Striking nurses holds protest placards outside Leeds General Infirmary on 1 May 2023
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11,000 and counting: the NHS appointments disrupted due to latest walkouts

More than half were due to 2 May – the RCN strike date ruled unlawful in the High Court

Police car parked in front of hospital ED as figures show high volume of police call-outs in response to violent incidents in the NHS
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Nurses under attack, literally: assaults in NHS add up to five police call-outs a day

High volume of 999 calls from NHS staff ‘becoming unsustainable for police officers’

Artist’s sketch of Lucy Letby being questioned by her defence lawyer
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Lucy Letby tells murder trial she ‘massively’ valued being a nurse

Nurse accused of murdering seven babies takes to witness stand for first time in her trial

Nurses on the picket line outside Guy’s Hospital London, for the first time, nurses working in emergency departments and intensive care units are taking to picket lines
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Are you striking for the first time? Here’s what you need to know

With all derogations removed, we offer advice for nurses who are new to the picket line

Court sketch of nurse Lucy Letby looking sombre and flanked by three uniformed police officers: she is accused of murdering seven babies
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Lucy Letby had concerns about fatalities and said staffing levels were sometimes ‘poor’

Trial hears transcripts of interviews with the accused nurse shortly after her arrest

Frances, Baroness O’Grady, former TUC leader and now peer speaking against government bill in House of Lords
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Your right to strike: Lords move to block power to sack nurses who join picket lines

Peers vote to water down ‘dictatorial’ law that would curb your scope to go on strike

Illustration shows digital red button labelled 'unregister' with cursor arrow poised to select it, as NMC relaxes rule on requesting removal form the register
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FtP: now registrants can request removal from the register before investigation ends

NMC changes rules in bid to cut its backlog of cases, and reduce nurses’ distress

A nurse checking a monitor on a hospital ward, with two patients in the background
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Alone with the patients: dangerous staffing ratios ‘normal’ say nurses

Many nurses are often left alone caring for over 20 patients, far exceeding safe ratios

Photo of burns nurse Paul Blakemore preparing actor Ryan Prescott before filming a scene
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Burns nurse advises Coronation Street on acid attack storyline

Paul Blakemore worked with production crew to ensure scenes were ‘as authentic as possible’

Febin Cyriac has helped more than 10,000 nurses from India secure jobs in the NHS
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10,000+ Keralan nurses recruited from India help address NHS staffing crisis

A Keralan nurse recruited the nurses after campaigning for more realistic language tests

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Pay dispute: what are the next steps and key dates for April and beyond?

Find out what happens now the pay offer in England has been rejected

Court sketch of nurse Lucy Letby, who denies multiple murder and attempted murder charges
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Lucy Letby trial: diary notes show private anguish at what was said of her, court told

Phrases ‘I killed them. I don’t know if I killed them’ among those found in documents

Brass name plate at entrance to NMC building
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Nurse ordered to be struck off after refusing to take English test

Colleagues worried poor English put patients at risk but she said she’d done nothing wrong

Photo of nurse Sam Moynes visiting Geof Turner, whose life she saved while on the school run
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Off-duty nurse recalls saving a grandfather’s life on school run

Sam Moynes swung into ‘work mode’ when Geof Turner went into cardiac arrest

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Recruitment drive for 900 overseas nurses to plug staff shortages

Swansea Bay University Health Board hopes move will slash annual agency bill by £1.5 million

Deputy charge nurse Mark Harding with WHO director general Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus at the Geneva event
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Nurse stars in inspirational choir of worldwide healthcare staff

Choir formed to raise spirits amid COVID meets in Geneva to mark WHO anniversary

Rossendale Nursing Home in Lancashire, where two residents died and a nurse was subsequently sentenced for causing avoidable harm
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Nurse to pay £55k over nursing home resident deaths

Caroline Taylforth had pleaded guilty to two counts of causing avoidable harm

Picket line at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London
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Anti-strikes bill could see nurses struck off, union warns

Anti-strikes Bill could see nurses face FtP charge by NMC if it becomes law, says Unite

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