Nurses

A host of new characters including the son of The Chase host Bradley Wash and a fan-favourite from BBC’s Holby City - Credit: BBC

New characters coming to Casualty - including Bradley Walsh’s son

Nurses striking in January outside Queen Alexandra Hospital, Portsmouth. Photo: Alex Shute

NHS pay rises will not come at patients' expense, govt says

NHS workers across the UK will get a pay rise in 2022/2

Explainer NHS workers to get pay rise: who will get it and when?

Chancellor Jeremy Hunt is expected to make a fresh offer aimed at resolving the long-running dispute involving nurses, ambulance staff and other NHS workers on Thursday (Photos: Getty)

NHS strikes suspended as final government offer put out for ballot

NHS staff have spoken out about the pressures within the healthcare workforce and their concerns about not being able “to do the right thing by all patients". Credit: Mark Hall / NationalWorld

NHS staff ‘cried’ talking about working conditions and patient safety

The government is planning to soften its hardline position towards striking NHS workers in a fresh bid to bring the long-running dispute to an end, reports suggest. Credit: Getty Images

Ministers ‘soften’ approach to NHS strikes in bid to end union dispute

Britain’s Royal College of Nursing (RCN) union head Pat Cullen (C) joins striking nurses at a picket line outside University College Hospital in London. Credit: DANIEL LEAL/AFP via Getty Images

Nurses agree to pause strikes as RCN begins ‘intensive pay talks’

Unison members will vote on whether to accept the pay offer next week (Photo: PA)

Nurses, midwives and paramedics to see wages rise under new pay offer

Thousands of nurses in England will join the picket line on 6 February. (Image: Kim Mogg / Getty Images)

Explainer More NHS strikes to take place this week after historic day

Ambulance workers and nurses are both planning on striking on 6 February, with the NHS possibly facing its biggest walkout in history. (Credit: Getty Images)

NHS bosses warn of biggest walkout in history next month

RCN General Secretary Pat Cullen (second left) with members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside St Thomas’ Hospital in London. Credit: PA

Nurse strikes: RCN announces two more strike dates in February

Patients are being warned to expect widespread disruption to health services (Photo: PA)

Nurses strike for second day ahead of biggest walkout in NHS history

Nurses will strike on 15 and 20 December

NHS patient ‘angry’ after appointment cancelled due to nurses strike

Fiona Bruce, host of Question Time, which will be filmed in Winchester this evening.

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Members of the Royal College of Nursing will strike at 76 NHS hospitals and trusts as part of a two-day long strike

RCN nurses say ‘dangerous’ conditions and ‘burnout’ has caused strikes

Thousands of NHS nurses are striking to demand better pay (Photo: PA)

Tens of thousands of nurses strike in biggest walkout in NHS history

The government is looking at ways to deal with the wave of strikes this winter. Credit: Getty Images / PA

Tougher anti-strike laws ‘being considered’ as UK faces mass walkouts

A nurse wearing scrubs holds a placard calling for a pay rise for NHS nursing staff. (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

RCN offer to ‘press pause’ on strikes if government enters pay talks

File photo dated 21/12/2021 of a nurse puts on PPE in a ward for Covid patients .

Video: Nurses’ strike explained - All the key questions answered

UK could be facing cash shortages as G4S workers set to strike. (Photo by Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

Explainer Cash shortage fears as G4S workers set to strike

Armed forces personnel could be brought in to drive ambulances and take on hospital roles

Army may be called in to help NHS during winter strikes

NHS nurses want to see their pay raised above inflation (image: Getty Images)

Nurse strike: how much nurses are paid and what they want

The Royal College of Nursing is calling for a pay rise for nurses of 5% above inflation (Photo: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

Public backs nurses strike for better pay and patient care, poll finds

Nurses across the UK have voted to strike in the first ever national action over a pay dispute. Picture: PA

Nurses have voted to strike in first ever national action

The Royal College of Nursing is currently balloting on strike action

Nurses are ‘working one day a week for free’, finds new pay analysis

NHS staff gather at a picket line outside Southmead Hospital for strike action in 2014, the first strike by NHS staff over pay in more than 30 years (Photo: Matt Cardy/Getty Images)

NHS strike 2022: will nurses launch strike action over pay and jobs?

Nurses are being urged to vote for strike action in protest at years of government-imposed pay freezes and below-inflation pay awards

Therese Coffey confident strike vote nurses won’t get higher pay offer

Dr Shehla Imtiaz-Umer has warned that as well as an increase in workload, verbal abuse and physical aggression from patients is pushing GPs out of the profession

Verbal abuse and physical violence driving GPs out of profession

There has been a rise in the number of NHS and emergency workers seeking help for suicidal thoughts, a charity has said

Rise in number of frontline workers seeking help for suicidal thoughts

International Nurses Day takes place on 12 May each year.

Today is International Nurses Day 2022 - this year’s theme explained

A nurse holds a placard calling for a pay rise for NHS nursing staff (AFP/Getty)

UK nurses salary scale explained as NHS staff get 3% pay rise