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Royal College of Nursing survey shows NHS nurses’ distress as 77% say they are worse off than a year ago‘I can’t do another one like last year’: nurses on cost of living crisisSix out of 10 NHS nurses have had to use credit or their savings over the last year to help them cope with the soaring cost of living, according to new research.Acute...

Three nurses share how they have been affected as survey finds many in NHS in England turning to credit or savingsSix in 10 nurses have used credit or savings to cope – surveyThe soaring cost of living has led to six out of 10 NHS nurses having to use credit or their savings over the last year to help them cope, research shows.Findings from...

Sixteen unions take action as collapsed Stormont leaves pay for nurses, teachers and road workers stagnantPublic sector workers have launched what is being billed as one of the biggest strikes in Northern Ireland’s history amid a dispute over pay and political deadlock.Sixteen unions representing nurses, teachers, transport workers, civil servants and other sectors started a joint action on Thursday that was expected to cause...

Pat Cullen urges RCN members in new year message to ‘push ministers further’Politicians did only enough to save their own skins during strikes by nurses, a union leader has claimed, meaning there was just modest progress in NHS pay and staffing in 2023.Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), said Westminster stopped well short of the “revolution needed”. Continue...