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MODERN MATRONS were introduced in the NHS as part of The NHS Plan (Department of Health (DH) 2000) to improve patient care and the patient experience. A key aspect of [...]

Abstract Aim To examine the employment experiences of older nurses and midwives working in the NHS. Method A total of 27 semi-structured telephone interviews were conducted with nurses and midwives [...]

Davis N, Bheenuck S (2003) A professional development pathways scheme. Nursing Standard, 17, 48, 40-43. Date of acceptance: December 23 2002. Summary The professional development pathways scheme is a local [...]

Here we go again--another year when nurses will not receive an annual pay rise in their April salary payments. Negotiations to determine the annual pay award for nurses should be [...]

SUMMARY Concern about the number of overweight staff in her NHS trust motivated chief executive Maggie Boyle to set up an exercise programme. Now nurses are working out with the [...]

NHS Employers' financial justification for their proposal to freeze increments must not be seen in isolation. It needs to be seen in the wider political and economic context. The government [...]

In just over a year a new system will be introduced to determine how many nurses should be trained in England. The plans, published by the Department of Health (DH) [...]

The cost of providing NHS care in England has increased on average by 3.9 per cent each year and pay increments drive a significant part of that increase. This year [...]

SUMMARY Under a mutually agreed resignation scheme, nurses could be offered a financial settlement. But there are pitfalls. Keywords Mutually agreed resignation scheme (MARS) * Finances * Pensions * State [...]

Staff at Northampton General Hospital began preparing for the coming winter as soon as the weather started to warm up after last winter's onslaught. Medicine directorate head nurse Belinda Wood [...]

It is time to revisit job specifications This is unfair to staff nurses who have trained to degree or diploma level and who expect their first post to be on [...]

SUMMARY This winter's extreme weather conditions, coupled with an outbreak of norovirus, put the NHS under strain. Many nurses proved their dedication by their willingness to work extra hours. Keywords [...]

At Addenbrooke's Hospital in Cambridge, nurses are offered free manicures and massages and encouraged to take part in social events and dubs. There have been pilates classes, a weight loss [...]

SUMMARY High rates of sickness absence among NHS staff put a strain on resources. One hospital has joined with its primary care trust to improve the health and fitness of [...]

Latest workforce figures show the NHS has become heavily reliant on part-time and casual nursing labour. Wales has the most part-time nursing employees, with 58 per cent of its registered [...]

Evidence presented by unions to the NHS pay review body (RB) shows startling gaps between the average pay of nurses and that of workers in male-dominated professions. Staff side evidence [...]

NHS Employers last week issued a stark warning that jobs will be cut, vacancies frozen and services jeopardised if nurses receive a pay award of more than 2 per cent [...]

Rather than improving the position, the change is likely to worsen the NHS staffing crisis. Removing the work permit short-cut across all nursing grades will certainly release job opportunities for [...]

Recording and monitoring the ethnicity of NHS inpatients and staff has been a mandatory requirement since the 1990s--and is often undertaken by nurses (NHSE 1994). Evidence from the Mental Health [...]

One of the key areas on which NHS trusts are tested for Improving Working Lives (IWL) is equality and diversity. This indicator is about valuing staff, ensuring they do not [...]

NHS Education for Scotland is developing a commissioning plan for education covering all NHS staff from undergraduate study to continuing professional development. Dialogue with key stakeholders is under way to [...]

Much is made of the country's demographic shifts to an ageing population and the implications of this for health care and nursing. But the ageing of the nursing workforce itself [...]

THE NHS has always relied on temporary nursing staff to cover vacancies, sickness and annual leave. It now spends more than 1.3 billion £ filling the gaps. Is this a [...]

RETENTION IS often seen as the poor cousin to recruitment: But as working patterns change, managers and academics are paying more attention to keeping nurses in their jobs for longer. [...]

IF YOU followed the television or radio coverage of NHS pay modernisation announcements on the day they came to light in November, you were probably confused. Some reports focused only [...]

The ratio of qualified staff to hospital inpatients has increased sharply, claims health minister Simon Burns. Asked to provide the latest figures on staffing levels in England, he said the [...]

Unions are poised to do battle with 16 trusts in south west England that have joined forces to drive down nurses' pay and conditions. A leaked document, seen by Nursing [...]

The Queen has been asked to intervene to ensure that nurses will be paid full bank holiday rates for working on the day of the Diamond Jubilee. Unite wrote to [...]

With 100 days to go until the start of the London Olympics, a government initiative has been criticised for failing to guarantee that 300,000 NHS staff become physically active before [...]

An NHS trust is asking what its staff think about taking five days of unpaid leave a year, a proposal that could cost its nurses hundreds of pounds in annual [...]

Seventy one nurses in Scotland lost their jobs between September and December last year, bringing the number of nurses working in the NHS there to its lowest level since September [...]

Research has highlighted clear links between effective staff appraisal and improved patient outcomes. The NHS Direct staff survey in 2010 identified shortcomings in the organisation's appraisal process, prompting the trust [...]

Demand for temporary nursing staff increased every month between May and September this year, with thousands of shifts left unfilled. An NHS Professionals report into temporary staffing reveals there was [...]

A drop in the number of nursing posts in Scotland is bad news for patients, RCN Scotland director Theresa Fyffe has warned. Latest figures from Information Services Division Scotland show [...]

Unions have developed a system that helps NHS managers ensure nurses receive equal pay. The toolkit, which a humor healthcare unions developed with NHS Employers, helps trusts identify possible pay [...]

HEALTH MINISTER Anne Milton has come under fire from community children's nurses who claim inadequate numbers of clinicians are being trained and workforce planning overlooked. During a community children's nursing [...]

THE NHS is in urgent need of a new style of leadership to overcome unprecedented financial pressures and adapt to future challenges, according to the King's Fund. A report, based [...]

THE NUMBER of managers working in the NHS in England fell last year despite an overall expansion in the size of the workforce, official statistics show. Final data from the [...]

Next week's RCN congress will discuss the merits of introducing annual health screening in the workplace. As efficiencies and cuts are converted into workplace pressures, the recommendations of the Boorman [...]

Nurses in Wales will receive their annual incremental pay rises, the country's first minister revealed. RCN Wales director of nursing Tina Donnelly welcomed the assurances from Carwyn Jones and called [...]

The government has launched Liberating the NHS: Developing the Healthcare Workforce, a consultation on the future of NHS workforce development and planning. Employers will have greater responsibility for planning and [...]

Incremental pay rises cannot be justified because all they do is 'pay staff more to do the same job', according to NHS Employers. The statement appears in a document drawn [...]

The NHS will employ fewer staff by 2015 as a result of government debt, the Department of Health (DH) has said in its justification of a pay freeze. The DH [...]

Increased competition among NHS trusts is discouraging healthcare workers from sharing information on best practice, according to research into the benefits of online communities. An Institute for Employment Studies survey [...]

More nurses are to be given the chance to answer NHS Direct calls at home following a successful trial of a flexible working scheme. Angela Phillips, pictured, who took part [...]

Nurses in Northern Ireland will begin wearing a national uniform from next year. The uniforms, modelled by Oliver Mallon and Lisa Gribbon (left), are part of a complete revamp for [...]

Concerns have been raised about staffing levels on neonatal wards in England after a hospital spent two years trying to find six specialist nurses, but only managed to recruit three. [...]

The NHS grew out of the ideal that good health care should be available for all. Although there have been great efforts to improve the patient experience, few have enquired [...]

NHS boards in Wales have been ordered to cut the number of staff on bands 5 and above by 3 per cent and replace them with healthcare support workers (HCSWs). [...]

Nurses at a West Midlands trust have been reassured their jobs are safe despite thousands of staff being offered early retirement or voluntary redundancy. Around 6,500 staff at Sandwell and [...]