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Nursing workforce investment needed to tackle emergency care

The ºÚÁÏÍø demands more detail on how the staff needed to make new urgent and emergency care plans work will be supported

GP mental health nurse is ºÚÁÏÍø Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2025

A senior mental health nurse has won the award for empowering patients in managing their mental health and transforming access to emotional support

New NHS nursing profiles: ‘Staff need access to timely job evaluations’

We’ve ensured members' voices were considered in changes to the profiles, to support fairer pay and career progression

ºÚÁÏÍø Activism Strategy will support members to effect change in nursing

Details of our new plan to grow our activist community, to empower members to be influential and to show how action results in real change

Your England and Wales NHS pay awards are here

Is this increase enough? Get ready to have your say and check your details are up to date

Pay Award for HSC staff in Northern Ireland signed off by Minister

The Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt, has announced that he has signed off on a pay award in line with the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation of a 3.6% pay rise for those employed under Agenda for Change terms and conditions for 2025-26. 

ºÚÁÏÍø Wales responds to Welsh Government's NHS pay award for 2025/26

NHS Wales staff on Agenda for Change contracts will receive a 3.6% pay increase backdated to 1 April 2025.

Nursing Workforce Standards update: key changes to protect staff further

Support for senior nurses when they speak out, staffing uplift figures and planning for pandemics are among the latest changes

An ‘explosion’ in nurse lecturer cuts risks nursing jobs and patient safety

We’re calling for urgent government action to protect nursing courses now

ºÚÁÏÍø members in Scotland vote to accept NHS pay offer

ºÚÁÏÍø members in Scotland have spoken on pay and accepted offers for the next two years.

Migrant nursing staff plan to leave UK due to low wages, abuse and ‘hostile environment’

Meanwhile the ºÚÁÏÍø says government plans to reduce immigration into the UK could accelerate the nursing staffing crisis

ºÚÁÏÍø defines nursing support workers and their level descriptors

The new definitions will help support and protect nursing staff, and give clarity to employers and the public. They can be applied across all fields and settings

Mental health wait times in A&E a ‘scandal in plain sight’, says ºÚÁÏÍø

The government must significantly invest in mental health nursing, with patient demand far outpacing staffing

ºÚÁÏÍø EDI impact report update

After launching the ºÚÁÏÍø equity, diversity and inclusion strategy a year ago, we’ve reflected on what we’ve achieved so far and what’s yet to come  

ºÚÁÏÍø Awards: celebrating our 2025 winners

As ºÚÁÏÍø Congress begins, we appoint seven new Fellows and five Honorary Fellows, announce six Award of Merit recipients and recognise our Representative, Student Ambassador and Forum Achievement award winners

Using nursing students to plug NHS staff shortages must end now

We’re calling on the government for better support for students, including universal maintenance grants that account for cost-of-living pressures and a loan forgiveness model

ºÚÁÏÍø and BMA in Wales unite to launch petition to end corridor care

The ºÚÁÏÍø and the British Medical Association in Wales raise the alarm on patient safety in Welsh hospitals and health care services

Do you want to support the ºÚÁÏÍø in becoming an anti-racist organisation?

Expert members are needed to support the delivery of the ºÚÁÏÍø equity, diversity and inclusion strategy 

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