Search Results for “Pay and conditions” tagged student nurses

Seventy one per cent – and more than two-thirds (67%) of those who’d voted Conservative a year ago – thought they should […]

A student subscription includes all the features and resources within a professional subscription, as well as Student Nursing Times – a dedicated […]

“But for the legislation to be truly effective it must enshrine the principle that student and retired health workers are volunteers and not conscripts to the fight against the virus. “They […]

Preceptorships are also, sometimes, offered to internationally educated nurses and midwives when they begin with a UK employer. However, the original survey […]

“But if grants and the payment of tuition fees disappear and are replaced by loans, we risk burdening nursing and […]

On a normal Wednesday morning Emily Heron would be taking patients’ blood pressure or doing observations…

“Everyone wants to see a better NHS, but it won’t be delivered by attacking the pay and working conditions of junior doctors. “The government attacks on junior medics will come […]

NHS students and their supporters, including UNISON members, marched from London's St Thomas's Hospital to […]

Healthcare assistants (HCAs) working in the NHS are doing the jobs of nurses without the equivalent pay or education, says a report from UNISON published today (Friday). Two in five (39%) say they have not received the training necessary to provide the care expected of them such as looking after dementia patients, according to the […]

"Help us to help you make the student voice heard loud and clear," says Ms Adams. Take the survey now - or pass on the address to any healthcare students […]

The words are fine, but action and government investment is needed to make Augar review recommendations work

The long-term plan must be to train and properly fund the nurses of the future. “Urgent action is needed from ministers to ease NHS […]

They seem not to care that in a few years time the NHS will be seriously short of nurses, and there will be too few new recruits coming through to fill the gaps. “That’s because the […]

Safe staffing levels have been in the news recently - and UNISON has been campaigning to improve staffing levels for years. But unfortunately, there are […]