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NHS pay: why industrial action could be back on the agenda this year

With NHS workers facing a real-terms pay cut, taking industrial action may end up being th

07 Apr 2022
War in Ukraine: why I left my family and job to care for refugees

A nurse reflects on her experience of travelling to Poland to support people fleeing the h

06 Apr 2022
Coping after baby loss: why I set up a ‘safe space’ peer support group

Advice on setting up a peer support group with colleagues in your workplace, from a nurse

31 Mar 2022
Retired nurse reservists: is this short-term fix such a bad idea?

It won’t help the staffing crisis in the long term, but the call for volunteer reservists

23 Mar 2022
Ukraine and COVID-19: conflict will undermine Europe’s pandemic recovery

Spending on defence at the expense of health risks destabilising pandemic recovery as nurs

15 Mar 2022
How embracing digital tech can banish inefficiency and give you more time with patients

Electronic patient records and digital apps not only transform patients’ care experience,

10 Mar 2022
Electronic health records: what do I do if a patient requests access to their file?

Nurses should assist service users in accessing to their electronic health records, and en

03 Mar 2022
Agency nurses and tax avoidance: if a scheme looks too good to be true, it probably is

Advice for agency nurses on schemes marketed to them that purport to minimise their income

02 Mar 2022
Dementia care in non-specialist settings: what would you ask an expert?

What have you always wanted to know about dementia care, but couldn’t find in a textbook?

22 Feb 2022
Nurses’ uniforms: solving the NHS’s dirty laundry problem

Lack of on-site changing facilities affects infection prevention and control, as study sho

16 Feb 2022
How to offset the harmful consequences of international nurse recruitment

With too few nurses to go round, here’s how we can compensate for the impact foreign recru

10 Feb 2022
Will the last nurse left in the NHS please turn out the light?

When nurses lose their leave due to poor workforce planning, a line has been crossed – and

18 Jan 2022

The essential qualities of a successful leader apply in nursing and the NHS as much as anyw

12 Jan 2022

Using public favour reaps benefits abroad, while in England nurses are failed again

05 Jan 2022

After front-line service, nurses with long-COVID have another battle on their hands

04 Jan 2022

Nurses may not always be the ones shouting loudest, so we need to be part of policymaking

30 Dec 2021

Call for the NMC to exit Stonewall’s diversity programme shows how polarised the debate is

16 Dec 2021

Problem-solving and transformation in healthcare, the support networks that can help you fo

15 Dec 2021