Nurses

The First Minister has said she hopes a dispute over nurses’ pay can be resolved within days

Michelle O’Neill hopeful of resolution to nurses’ pay dispute within days

Nurses on strike outside Belfast's Mater Hospital in 2019, during a previous dispute over pay and conditions. Photo: Laura Davison/Pacemaker Press

Nurses pay dispute: Strike still on cards after no 'meaningful political action'

The largest allocation is £100 million to Health Minister Mike Nesbitt who had asked fellow ministers for £200 million to enable him to deliver a recommended uplift to healthcare workers

Stormont offers £150m to ministers struggling to meet worker pay demands

The review was carried out into issues in the cardiac unit at the Royal Victoria Hospital.

Workers Party calls for explanation from PHA and DoH

Nurses say they're struggling against understaffing, lack of career opportunities and pay erosion.

Nurses threaten action over 3.6% pay - Nesbitt blames Executive for salary delay

Lidl is to open 40 new UK stores.

Lidl to open 40 UK stores - but economic storm brews for UK economy

Nurses topped the list, a new entry for 2024 as the most in-demand profession in Northern Ireland, replacing the 2023 number one spot of accounts assistant

Most in-demand and highest-paid NI jobs for 2024 revealed....!

Sam Dooley, Country Director of The Stepstone Group Ireland, with responsibility for NIJobs.

Nursing and construction workers emerge as top in-demand roles

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Uber is offering free rides for NHS staff at Christmas - how to claim

Here are 8 top tips from our experts on how to stay healthy at Glastonbury Festival. (Photo: Leon Neal/Getty Images, NENAD MIHAJLOVIC/AFP via Getty Images)

How to stay well at Glastonbury and avoid these 8 common mishaps

Gertrude Moutray, from Ballygawley, Co Tyrone, who was sent to Belsen Bergen during the Second World War as a nurse

New book shines a light on Ireland’s nurses in the Second World War

Video reveals gender stereotyping is still rife in children

Patients miss out on 1.8million days of care

Nurses, midwives and other healthcare workers will be among tens of thousands of public sector employees taking part in a generalised day of action on January 18 over an outstanding pay award for public sector workers

Northern Ireland health strike ‘will have profound impact’ on services

Nurses and health workers are among those who are to take part in a generalised day of action on January 18 over an outstanding pay award for public sector workers

Department warns of unprecedented disruption to health services due to strike

Uber and Uber Eats offer NHS staff working over Christmas free food and travel

NHS workers can claim free travel at Christmas thanks to Uber
The Christmas time NHS campaign was launched seven years ago.
Holly Allton

There are currently 7.75m people on NHS waiting lists across the country.

Breaking NHS waiting lists could reach 8m by next summer

The nurses who started their training in September 1973 in the Royal Victoria Hospital, Belfast, pictured during a recent visit to the 'Royal' on the helipad where the Air Ambulance lands. They enjoyed a tour of the hospital before celebrating their 50th anniversary in the Europa Hotel.

Class of '73: RVH nurses back where it all began 50 years ago

A couple are suing Southern Regional Hospital after their son was ‘decapitated’ during birth

Couple sue doctor after newborn was ‘decapitated’ during delivery

A family statement confirmed Bryan Randall died after secretly battling Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis - Credit: Getty

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Jessy Williams with her daughter Sky

Mum has one of smallest babies ever born in UK - weighing 350g

Aldi makes huge change to popular super 6 fruit & veg promotion - what’s new?

Aldi makes huge change to popular Super 6 fruit & veg promotion

Captain Sir Tom Moore to get his own biopic

Nurses in Northern Ireland will later hold a demonstration at Stormont to highlight the "escalating crisis" in the health service. It comes as voters across Northern Ireland head to the polls for the council elections.

Nurses to demonstrate at Stormont over ‘escalating crisis’ in NI health service

Nurses fear being taken to court says RCN

Nurses fear being taken to court over treatment in corridors, warns RCN

New plans would allow more doctors and nurses to receive their training "on the job" rather than via the traditional university route.

Breaking Student doctors told to skip university to solve the NHS staff crisis

NHS

Breaking Health unions back new pay offer for millions of NHS staff
More than one million NHS staff in England are to get a 5% pay rise after health unions backed the new offer.
Sam Johnson

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Breaking Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

Strictly Come Dancing judges Shirley Ballas, Motsi Mabuse, Craig Revel Horwood and Anton Du Beke are will stay for another series of the BBC show

Strictly Come Dancing judge comments on pay row rumours

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

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

Teachers are among just one of the many professions striking

Who is striking and when in 2023?

Nursing strikes 2023: Royal College of Nursing, the GMB & Unison back new pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Breaking Nursing strikes 2023: Unions back pay offer - but it’s not over yet

Rail workers will stage a series of fresh strikes in March and April (Photo: Getty Images)

Strike action taking place in March 2023 in the UK - including NEU

Sir Rod Stewart poses for photos with members of staff at the Princess Alexandra Hospital in Harlow, Essex

Sir Rod Stewart backs NHS wage rise and pays for patient scans

RCN nurses suspend next week’s strike and enter pay negotiations

The Royal College of Nursing have announced their biggest strikes to date.

Rail workers, postal workers and nurses all announce new strike dates

Nurses to stage 48-hour strike next month including A&E workers

MPs have been given a 2.9% pay rise, starting from April 1.

MPs to get 2.9% pay rise, taking salaries to over £86,000

Who is striking in February 2023? Full list of all industrial action

Tory MP says NHS nurses using food banks should ‘budget better’

EIS Union teachers on the picket line (Pic: John Devlin)

Over 450,000 working days were lost to strike action in November

Pat Cullen

Northern Ireland strikes: Decision by RCN due in 'coming weeks'

Love Island series 9 contestant Olivia Hawkins was a stunt double in the show Brassic which has many links to Chorley.

Meet the Love Island contestant who worked on No Time to Die

Nurses and supporters gather outside University College Hospital before marching to Downing Street after a day of strike action on December 20 2022 in London. (Photo by Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)

Nurses’ strike in February will be ‘twice as big’, union leaders warn

Foodbank on Ward 10 at Walsall Manor Hospital with Claire Cooper, Senior Sister.

Hospitals forced to open food banks for their own staff

Pro-wrestler blasts Rishi Sunak over nurses strike at Tokyo Dome

NHS staff at UK hospital told to repay Christmas bonuses paid in error

Cerys Parfitt ICU nurse - GB News

Nurse hits back at minister over ‘unjustifiable’ strike claim

Nurses Sarah Donnelly (left) and Nicola Joyce on the picket line outside the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast, as nurses in England, Wales and Northern Ireland take industrial action over pay. Picture date: Tuesday December 20, 2022.

Hundreds of appointments hit as nurses take to picket lines in Northern Ireland

No NHS trusts in Sussex will take part in strikes (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Second day of nurse strikes over pay and conditions begins

Northern Ireland’s health service has been under sustained pressure in recent months, with the public being advised on several occasions of long waits at emergency departments due to capacity issues.

Health leaders ‘deeply distressed’ at pressures facing hospitals in NI

Nurses on the picket line at Antrim Area Hospital on Thursday

Nurses threaten fresh strikes in January if ministers fail to meet new deadline

Nurses and NHS staff pictured at the Ulster Hospital, in Dundonald, where they are taking part in the UK wide strike action. Picture by Jonathan Porter/PressEye

Rishi Sunak refusing to bow to pressure following calls to talk pay with nurses

Mental health nurse Michael Rooney joins members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) on the picket line outside Belfast City Hospital in Belfast

Striking nurses: We have been left with no choice

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The welfare of nurses should be a key priority but they are wrong to strike

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