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Last week's emergency budget brought a financial chill to the public sector, including nurses, as Tamsin Snow reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Colin Parish and Tamsin Snow look at some of the detail in this year's independent review body report on NHS staff pay. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tributes flood in for Beverly Malone after her announcement that she will leave the RCN this year. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tamsin Snow looks at how the college's Frontline First campaign will help nurses highlight waste and inefficiency in the NHS. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tamsin Snow and Petra Kendall-Raynor explore the reasons it is taking so long to reach a decision on how to regulate advanced nurse practice [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Tamsin Snow looks at what the recognition agreement between Hampshire County Council and the RCN will mean for members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Grass roots concern centres on protection against further sharp rises in inflation. Tamsin Snow reports. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses have bombarded the RCN with calls to reject outright a controversial proposal to deny staff their annual increments for two years in exchange for guarantees of no compulsory redundancies. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RCN members are being asked for their views on the government's white paper, which sets out one of the most radical overhauls of the NHS since its inception in 1948. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

MPs have been warned that any cuts to the nursing workforce introduced as part of efficiency savings could lead to a repeat of tragedies such as those at Mid Staffordshire NHS Foundation Trust. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses spend less time with the most dependent patients -- and more time with those who are least dependent, research shows. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses Great Britain's Royal College of Nursing (RCN) annual 2010 congress where participants debated how to change the perception that public sector nurses have gold-plated pensions. According to the RCN, the National Health Service (NHS) pension scheme had been targeted by the group the Taxpayers' Alliance prior to the 2010 parliamentary elections.

Thousands of nurses face losing their jobs as NHS organisations calculate ways to reduce spending, the RCN warned this week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Half of NHS workers in Northern Ireland who claimed they were placed on the wrong Agenda for Change (AfC) band have won their appeals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nursing register should make clear which practitioners are capable of practising at an advanced level, the RCN will say in a position statement to be published next week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Healthcare providers are being paid 94 pounds a week per student for providing clinical placements as part of a pilot scheme that could be rolled out across England. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses could be prosecuted if they help patients to take their own lives, guidance from the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) confirms. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

More than half of strategic health authorities (SHAs) in England will train fewer nurses this year than last year despite a record number of applications to courses. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Cuts in temporary staff and extended core working hours are among money-saving measures being considered by some NHS trusts. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Government proposals for NHS job guarantees in return for wage restraint are in disarray after foundation trusts said redundancies are unavoidable. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses from around the world are spearheading efforts to help survivors of the Haitian earthquake, which has an estimated death toll of 200,000. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Scores of nurses braved treacherous weather conditions last week to treat patients, with many walking miles to work and others sleeping overnight in hospitals as temperatures plunged to -22.3 degrees C in some areas. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Patients could be told how many nurses are on the wards of each English hospital, Nursing Standard has learned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the Royal College of Nursing's call for unannounced inspections at National Health Service (NHS) organisations in the aftermath of a report released by the organization Dr Foster, showing higher than average mortality rates at 27 NHS trusts. The RCN has stated that unannounced inspections should be triggered by a range of indicators including staff turnover, patient complaints and mortality rates.

A list of core standards that nurses will be expected to meet while delivering care is being drawn up by the RCN. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses' pay could be frozen for the first time in living memory if the Conservative Party wins the next general election, prompting fears of a major recruitment crisis. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Unions will call for an investigation into how many NHS organisations are moving staff to lower pay bands, Nursing Standard has learned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Almost half of nurses are unhappy with their salaries under Agenda for Change (AfC), according to RCN research submitted as evidence to secure next year's promised pay rise. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Plans to overhaul care system funding could lead to the end of free nursing care for older people with serious ongoing health problems, the RCN has warned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A nurse who led a pilot project that looked at regulating healthcare assistants (HCAs) in the same way as nurses has concluded that the initiative will prove expensive and ineffective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Managers should be given a deadline by which time all their staff must have been appraised using the NHS Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF), the RCN said last week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RCN Wales has asked the Welsh Assembly Government to record the number of practice nurses working in the principality after it emerged figures are no longer collected. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) chair Tony Hazell has given the clearest indication yet that healthcare support workers (HCSWs) are unlikely to be regulated by the NMC. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Guidance on providing 'neglected and overworked' ward sisters and charge nurses with support is to be published by the RCN next month. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A new vetting scheme that requires nurses to pay 64 pounds on top of the cost of their Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) registration should be paid for by governments or employers, nursing leaders told a Home Office minister last week. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health unions have called for an increase in the number of nurse peers to bolster nursing influence in the House of Lords. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses should receive their 2.75 per cent pay rise next month after a proposed multi-year pay deal was accepted by the RCN and Unison. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The Department of Health (DH) has promised to respond to criticism for stalling on the regulation of advanced nurses and failing to regulate healthcare support workers (HCSWs). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses could receive their annual pay award in two parts this year, making it effectively worth less than the 2.75 per cent proposed last week, unions have warned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The number of RCN nurse advisers could be cut by more than a third, despite concerns that the plans will lead to a loss in the quality of advice given to members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses working at some NHS foundation trusts fear their managers are so focused on controlling costs that health professionals' views on service provision are being ignored, an RCN survey has found. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Opinion remains divided on whether nursing should become an all-degree profession, responses to a proposed overhaul of nurse education show. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Nurses attending RCN congress this spring will vote on whether strict rules that limit nurses' ability to take industrial action should be abolished. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Health regulators and the RCN held urgent talks this week about whether nurses who administer Botox under patient group directions (PGDs) are breaching professional rules. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

RCN leaders will decide on September 15 whether to accep the government's latest pay offer, after further consultations with members. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The RCN's governing body will decide whether to hold a national ballot on industrial action when it meets next month, raising the prospect of the first ever national strike. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Ministers in England and Wales must reverse the staged pay award because nurses have 'reached their limits', RCN general secretary Peter Carter has warned. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A dispute is looming between unions and the government over whether the high number of annual increments under Agenda for Change (AfC) discriminates against women. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]