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Picture shows Graham Pink at his home in Manchester in January 2008
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Pioneering safe staffing whistleblower nurse dies aged 91

Graham Pink's campaigning helped establish the protections whistleblowers receive today

Clinical support worker Sheila Kerai wins scholarship to study nursing in memory of her friend Areema Nasreen who died of COVID-19
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Friend of nurse who died of COVID-19 wins nursing scholarship in her memory

Award will help clinical support worker to realise her career ambition to qualify as a nurse

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Call bells and sexism: what nurses say about gendered dress-and-cap symbols

Nurse prompts Twitter debate on impact of out-dated imagery on bedside buzzers

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RCN offers nurses ‘campaign’ training ahead of possible strike ballot

Online course will teach nurses how they can campaign for significant pay rise

Entrance to Royal Free Hospital in London, where ICU staff have complained about staffing and burnout
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Unsafe in our ICU: more than 200 nursing staff call on trust to take action

Critical care staff prompt RCN’s written appeal over nurse-patient ratios and burnout

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Nursing Standard podcast: building trust with young people affected by knife crime

2020 RCN Nurse of the Year Ana Waddington talks about how she set up an outreach programme

Tired nurse
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Community nurses too ‘fatigued’ to respond to NMC consultation, QNI says

Nursing group doubts meaningful engagement with education revamp is possible amid pandemic

Minister of state for care Helen Whately
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Nurses want better staffing rather than a pay rise, claims care minister

Helen Whately defends ‘insulting’ 1% pay offer as study reveals impact of austerity on nurses

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Children’s health: RCN chief says all schools should have a dedicated nurse

School nurses have vital role in promoting healthier children's lifestyles

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Nurses felt unable to challenge DNACPR decisions, regulator finds

CQC says some lacked confidence to confront doctors over decisions in COVID-19 first wave

Picture of prime minister Boris Johnson speaking at 10 Downing Street after being discharged from hospital on 12 April
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Remember what you owe to nurses, Boris Johnson told

RCN contrasts ‘measly’ pay suggestion with prime minister’s praise for his own COVID-19 care

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Virtual nurse training: £25m will expand use of technology and critical care education

RCN welcomes money for England but calls for continual investment in nurses’ development

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COVID-19: senior nurses support Marie Curie’s National Day of Reflection

Day of reflection will allow ‘a pause to remember those who have died’

Dame Donna Kinnair in line up with fellow Bold Woman Award nominees 2021
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Nurses’ leader is a Bold Woman: head of RCN shortlisted for award

Dame Donna Kinnair on shortlist of Bold Woman Awards 2021

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Most nurses can’t launder uniforms at work, poll suggests

Nursing Standard survey follows study findings on possible COVID-19 transmission at home

Whipps Cross Hospital in London, where nurse Jeyran Panahian-Jand was victimised for raising racism concerns
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Tribunal victory for nurse victimised for raising racial segregation concerns

Barts Health ordered to pay bank nurse whistleblower £26,000 – and give her shifts

Picture of Margaret Waine, a healthcare assistant at St Helens and Knowsley Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust, who has died from COVID-19
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Healthcare assistant who worked at the same trust for 40 years dies of COVID-19

Margaret Waine remembered as a caring colleague known for tucking her patients in at night

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Nurses urged to check people with learning disabilities registered for COVID-19 vaccine

RCN says not all adult service users on GP learning disability register

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