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There are 152 specialist epilepsy nurses in England, but the APPG says the number should increase to 920. In a report, the group claims that failures in care and treatment [...]

An influential think tank has said the NHS pay system contributes to staff shortages in deprived areas and should be scrapped in favour of localised pay zones. Poverty Pay: How [...]

The RCN is calling on NHS managers to set an example to other employers by giving staff time off to attend smoking cessation classes. The call followed guidance published by [...]

The number of nurses working in the NHS fell by 6,719 in the 12 months to September 2006, annual workforce data show. The drop is the first since Labour came [...]

New NHS nurses and midwives are to receive special 'welcome packs' as part of a scheme launched by NHS Employers last month. Copies of Welcome to the Team: Nurses and [...]

The government is consulting NHS organisations on how best to compensate nurses wrongly excluded from joining the NHS pension scheme in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Nurses who worked [...]

Draft proposals for a new unsocial hours payment scheme for nurses and other NHS staff on Agenda for Change (AfC) have finally been published by NHS Employers. The scheme is [...]

A YouGov poll commissioned by the RCN found people in England, Scotland and Wales overwhelmingly agree that the NHS should ensure safe staffing levels. Nearly three quarters of respondents believed [...]

Ministers in London and Cardiff are under growing pressure to deliver this year's pay award in full on April 1. Talks between unions representing staff in England and health secretary [...]

One in ten NHS workers will soon work for an independent healthcare provider rather than the government, a think tank favoured by chancellor Gordon Brown predicts. The Smith Institute's Public [...]

A best practice guide on reducing the use of agency nurses has been published by NHS Employers and the NHS Confederation, which represents managers. Controlling the Use of Temporary Staff [...]

Nurse directors' average basic salary increased 5.4 per cent to 80,530 £ last year, latest pay figures reveal. The survey of 69 acute, mental health and learning disability trusts by [...]

OVER THE past 12 months, the health service has been reorganised and modernised, and this will no doubt continue without respite. In such a climate of instability and uncertainty, few [...]

SUMMARY To support our Count on Nurses campaign for safer staffing levels, Nursing Standard asked experts, researchers and policy makers to help draw up a list of the most useful [...]

Nurses will get their first glimpse of the new NHS unsocial hours scheme later this month when unions are expected to hold an informal consultation on the proposals. The system [...]

Violence against NHS staff will receive 'priority action' and culprits will face a 'robust charging policy' the Crown Prosecution Service has said. The announcement was made at an NHS Security [...]

NHS nurses in England are to be given guidance on what religious symbols and cultural dress they can wear at work. The new rules from NHS Employers are expected to [...]

Nurses joining the NHS face HIV and hepatitis C tests if they carry out invasive procedures. The Department of Health says it will publish guidance in the next few months [...]

Violence against NHS staff will receive 'priority action' and culprits will face a 'robust charging policy' according to the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS). The announcement was made at an NHS [...]

Some NHS trusts may not be able to obtain enough flu vaccine stock to vaccinate all their staff this winter, as shortages have started to hit certain areas. East Lancashire [...]

Some things in the NHS come round with the seasons and if it is autumn it means bullying. Other thorns that flourish annually include institutional racism, violence against staff and [...]

Short-term financial constraints mean some NHS trusts are not implementing the government's Hospital at Night policy, which gives night nurses enhanced roles. A report by the team overseeing roll-out of [...]

When governments boast about how well the health service is performing under their stewardship--usually the number of patients treated and how quickly--they are really describing the achievements of staff in [...]

Only 1.4 per cent of senior NHS staff are from black and minority ethnic (BME) backgrounds, even though this group make up 14 per cent of health service workers, unpublished [...]

Nursing Standard reader Malcolm Harrison's poignant letter in is week's issue highlights the human cost of NHS deficits. An experienced nurse, used to seeing people in tears in the course [...]

New nurses should undergo a four-month preceptorship to smooth the transition from student to nurse, according to new Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) guidance. The Preceptorship Guidelines, sent out in [...]

The gender and ethnicity of all staff in NHS senior management is being audited to assess how job losses and trust mergers have affected equality. The two-part survey, commissioned by [...]

The NHS will face a staffing crisis within three years because the number of nursing and midwifery students is to be cut by up to 25 per cent. That was [...]

Nurses who qualified overseas are to be given extra support to help them join the NHS in Scotland. The Scottish Executive will help nurses who need to undertake further study [...]

Up to 300 health sector students marched through Canterbury to highlight the impact of NHS deficits on jobs and patient safety. Roy Smith, who is due to finish a three-year [...]

Nurses have taken firm steps towards industrial action--sending the government the strongest message in years about discontent in the NHS. The RCN has reconvened its industrial action committee after members [...]

NHS Employers is preparing guidelines on how trusts can comply with gender equality legislation. They will also ensure trusts follow the recent employment appeals tribunal ruling that it is unlawful [...]

Nurse staffing levels at many NHS trusts throughout the UK are inadequate, but nurses 'make do' because they feel powerless to change the situation, a survey of Nursing Standard readers [...]

A survey showing that fewer than one in five nursing students in England has a job lined up for when they qualify this year has angered unions. The Council of [...]

At least once a year, N HS managers look at the difficulties they face delivering clinical services and conclude that agency staff--costly, uncommitted and part time--are the problem. This year [...]

Nurses must be treated with dignity if they are to care for patients fairly, the Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams said last week. During a service at Westminster Abbey to [...]

Issues about national pay bargaining and job cuts in National Health Service (NHS) are presented.

NHS organisations have not yet been told to implement this year's 2.5 percent pay award because negotiations with other staff under Agenda for Change (AfC) have not been concluded. All [...]

A meeting of employers and unions has kickstarted a drive to reduce the number of NHS staff who take sick leave or retire early due to ill health. The review [...]