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NHS pay scales 2014-15
Pay scales for NHS nursing staff in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 1 April 2014.
Updated: 27 August 2019 -
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Planning for your future with RCN Law
Updated: 31 March 2025 -
NHS pay scales 2017-18
Find more information about pay for NHS nursing staff in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland from 1 April 2017.
Updated: 15 January 2023 -
NHS pay 2022-23
NHS pay scales information for nursing staff in England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.
Updated: 22 October 2023 -
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The UK picture
Updated: 14 April 2025 -
Our work to fix the nursing workforce crisis
Find out about the RCN's safe staffing work which is focused on ending the nurse shortages and nursing workforce crisis in England.
Updated: 31 October 2024 -
NHS sickness data shows average nurse took entire week off sick last year due to stress-related illness
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Dangerous stress levels have become normalised inside an NHS which is unable to cope with demand. Chronic workforce shortages are putting nurses under unbearable pressure, unable to deliver the high-quality care they were traine...
Updated: 25 April 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Supreme Court ruling that UK trade union law breaches the ECHR
RCN Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “Today’s ruling is welcome news for workers as the Supreme Court recognised that our domestic legislation is not compatible with article 11 of the ECHR given the lack of protection for detriment short of dismissal in respect ...
Updated: 17 September 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrat research on delayed discharges from hospital
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said “Nobody should stay in hospital longer than they need to, but every day thousands remain on wards simply because the NHS can’t discharge them to where they can receive more appropriate care. This adds pressure across hospitals leaving patient...
Updated: 15 September 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrats figures showing that elderly patients waiting over five days on hospital trolleys in A&E
Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, said: “Behind these figures are people’s parents and grandparents, some of society’s most vulnerable who we’d expect to be treated with the upmost dignity. The bleak reality is that those who should be given the greatest ...
Updated: 23 September 2024
