nurses

Aspiring nurses can soon enrol on a new on-the-job apprenticeship role, the government says. From September 2017, up to 1,000 NHS staff will be able to take up the training without having to go down the conventional university route to get a nursing degree. Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt says it...

Nurse leaders in Scotland have warned of the growing vacancy rate in the profession in the wake of health board workforce projections indicating a further 750 full time staff are set to be recruited in 2016-17. Across Scotland, health boards are projected to recruit almost 100 more whole time...

Plans to scrap student bursaries and charge nurses and other health staff for their degrees in England could backfire, unions are warning. Ministers plan to overhaul the funding system in September 2017 and charge those studying to be front-line health workers for their degrees. But the Royal...

The Department of Health has been criticised over a shortage of nurses and told to "get its act together", by government advisers. The Migration Advisory Committee also accused the health sector of seeing immigration as a "get-out-of-jail-free-card" and an answer to the shortage. The lack of...

Two thirds of practice nurses believe they are underpaid and a third plan to retire in the next five years, according to a poll that sheds new light on the deepening GP crisis. A report by the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) that highlights the state of general practice nursing and challenges...

Student nurses and midwives have marched in protest at the government's decision to scrap their bursaries in England and replace them with loans. Demonstrations against the move, announced in the chancellor's Spending Review in November, took place in London, Manchester and Newcastle. The...

More than 10,000 vacancies for nursing posts in London went unfilled in 2015, new figures from the Royal College of Nursing have shown. The shortage of nurses worsened last year, with 17% of all London's registered nursing jobs vacant, up from 14% in 2014 and 11% in 2013. The figure is much...

The vast majority of hospitals in England are struggling to recruit enough nurses, figures show. Some 92% of the 225 acute hospital trusts in England did not manage to run wards with their planned number of nurses during the day in August. The figures, published by the NHS, show that hospitals...

Plans to axe bursaries and replace them with loans have been condemned by unions, but universities say they will lead to more training places for nurses, midwives and allied health professionals. Plans to scrap bursaries for student nurses, midwives and allied health professionals and replace...

Nurses’ value is not measured in money, but this does not give the government licence to cut their bursaries. I would not be where I am today without the compassion, dedication and guidance of nurses. I write this not as a patient, but a junior doctor. For every heart-wrenching story I have to...

The nurse who helped Britain’s youngest organ donor save the life of a stranger has been honoured with a top gong. Angharad Griffiths, 33, played a pivotal role in enabling little Teddy Houlston - born with a fatal condition - to donate his kidneys. The Mirror revealed earlier this year how...

Staffordshire nursing students have hit out at Government plans to cut their grants. George Osborne revealed in his Autumn statement all student nurses will stop receiving bursaries, in the hope that it will save up to £800m a year for the government. It means students on nursing awards will...

Student nurses are to have their grants cut and will instead have to take out loans to pay for their tuition fees, George Osborne has revealed in his Autumn Statement. The students will stop receiving bursaries in the hope the move, which has been described as "devastating", will save up to...