Royal College of Nursing

A general view of staff on a NHS hospital ward. Picture: Jeff Moore/PA Wire

British slang guide created for international healthcare staff

Lucy Letby was sentenced to a whole-life order and will spend the rest of her life behind bars. (Credit: Cheshire Constabulary/PA)

Families of Lucy Letby's victims taking legal action against the NHS

A court sketch by Elizabeth Cook of Lucy Letby, a nurse found guilty of killing six babies in a trial at Manchester Crown Court. (Picture: PA)

Why did NHS consultants have to apologise to baby killer Lucy Letby?

Nurses have joined other healthcare workers in taking industrial action this year. (Picture: Getty Images)

Why are fewer people training to become nurses?

The Royal College of Nursing failed to meet the required number of votes to enable more walkouts (Photo: Getty Images)

Nurse strikes to end as RCN boss warns fight over pay ‘far from over’

Senior doctors in England will begin voting on Monday whether to strike over pay (Photo: PA)

Senior doctors begin voting on fresh strikes over ongoing NHS pay row

At its peak, at least 5,000 staff were on strike in this week's walkout. (Image: NationalWorld/Mark Hall/Getty/AdobeStock)

Exclusive Nurses’ strike: how hospitals compared for cancellations

The Royal College of Nursing will ballot members on further strikes “across the full NHS” (Photo: Getty Images)

Nurses threaten more strikes across NHS as new pay deal is imposed

General Secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Pat Cullen. Picture: Lucy North/PA Wire

Nurses have worked ‘tirelessly’ to ensure strike is safe, says RCN

Royal College of Nursing members voted to reject the government’s pay offer (Photo: Getty Images)

Nurses prepare to strike after RCN rejected government pay offer

NHS physiotherapists take part in a strike outside of St Thomas’ Hospital on January. (Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images)

Nurses’ strikes could last ‘until Christmas’ RCN chief warns

Newly announced nurses' strikes threaten to cause a staffing a headache for England's hospitals, with management already contending with the looming threat of further junior doctor walkouts. Photo: Chris Moorhouse

Concern new nurse walkout could coincide with junior doctors strikes

Up to 28,000 nurses in England will vote on whether to accept the government’s NHS pay offer (Photo: Getty Images)

Up to 280,000 RCN nursing staff to vote on new NHS pay offer

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

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

Hundreds of striking nurses braved the cold this afternoon as they marched on Downing Street to “save the NHS”. Credit: Claudia Marquis / LondonWorld

Nurses march on Downing Street to demand funding for ‘unsafe’ NHS

Mick Lynch (left), general secretary of the Rail, Maritime and Transport union (RMT) and assistant general secretary John Leach on their way to the Department for Transport in London for a meeting. Credit: PA

More strikes expected as unions slam government talks as an ‘insult’

The Royal College of Nursing could be willing to accept a pay rise of around 10% (Photo: Getty Images)

Nurses’ union could accept 10% pay rise - half its original demand

Nurses across England, Wales and Northern Ireland will strike on 15 and 20 December. Credit: Getty Images

Nursing strike: which hospitals are affected by historic NHS walkout

RCN general secretary Pat Cullen. Credit: PA

Nurse union warns of more strikes if government doesn’t negotiate

The comedian and television presenter best known for his roles presenting Take Me Out and BBC's Top Gear was also born in Farnworth. McGuinness formed his close relationship with Peter Kay during his school days in Farnworth.

Paddy McGuinnes joins NHS nurses strike on picket line

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

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

Chief nurses in the UK have warned patients are at risk during upcoming strike action and have called for more cancer services to be provided during walkouts

Health chiefs call for more cancer services during nurse strikes

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

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

Do you support nurses strike action and do nurses deserve a pay rise?

Nurses strike: the biggest dispute for 100 years explained

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

There are more than 46,828 nursing, midwifery, and health visiting vacancies in the NHS in England

‘We are the NHS’ nurses recruitment drive launched in England

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

Public sector pay has been outstripped by inflation, leaving workers worse off than they were a decade ago

Public sector workers £43 a week worse off than in 2010

Health unions have reacted to the Government’s NHS pay rise announcement

‘A grave misstep by ministers’: health unions react to NHS pay rise

Exclusive: 85,000 NHS staff yet to have Covid jab as deadline looms

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

The uplift will mean the “average nurse” will receive an extra £1,000 per year (Photo: Getty Images)

NHS 3% pay rise marks 'bitter blow' for staff and could spark industrial action

A report by the Health and Social Care Committee called for immediate action to support exhausted staff who have worked throughout the Covid-19 pandemic (Getty Images)

NHS and social care staff burnout reaches ‘emergency’ level