Read about the Nursing and Midwifery Council's new approach to monitoring education courses, which will involve a grading system.

Find out why the Royal College of Nursing has ended its commerical partnership with Israeli pharmaceutical Teva.

Read about new research showing a link between exposure to e-cigarettes and asthma flare-ups among children.

Find out about a manslaughter trial involving custody nurse Sean Cregg from Berkshire who was working when a man died after being arrested.

Read a Nursing Times interview with the chief nursing information officer at Microsoft, Kathleen McGrow, about AI and nursing.

Read why health visiting team leaders at NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde have called off industrial action in a dispute over job descriptions.

Find out why operating theatre nurses at the Northern Care Alliance are going back on strike in a dispute about overtime pay.

Read the response by nursing leaders to plans by Yvette Cooper to effectively reintroduce the Sure Start early years programme.

Helen MacDonald discusses the challenges and solutions to caring for patients with mental health problems in emergency departments.

Celebrations have been held at Hinchingbrooke Hospital to mark a 25-year milestone for a group of Filipino nurses who came to work there.

Taking medication for epilepsy while breastfeeding does not increase the risk of neurodevelopmental disorders in children, a study has found.

A weekly session of isometric exercise training, such as squats or planks, may maintain lower blood pressure, according to UK researchers.

Health secretary Yvette Cooper has announced the full return of ‘Sure Start’ to community family hubs over the next two years, new specialist domestic abuse services and a “proper” workforce plan for ...

Risks and benefits associated with waterbirths were analysed in a study of more than 73,000 women who used a birthing pool.

Chrissla Davis on how we cannot keep calling nursing a workforce in crisis while denying opportunities to those who have trained to help address it.

Ashfaque Talpur and Parveen Ali pay tribute to Patience Govera, a senior mental health nurse and PhD researcher who sadly died unexpectedly.

The terms of reference for the investigation into maternity and neonatal services at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust have been published.

Women who accidentally become pregnant while taking a GLP-1 treatment for diabetes or weight loss are not at increased risk of miscarriage or other complications of pregnancy, according to new researc...

Prime minister Andy Burnham has apologised to NHS workers for being let down, before further detailing a new national care service.

Nurses and midwives in Ireland have scrapped plans to strike over long-awaited pay reforms as their dispute will now go to tribunal.

A new director of nursing, midwifery and allied health professionals with a strong leadership track record has been announced by NHS Borders.

Health professionals often grapple with immense pressures, especially when it comes to the operating theatre.

Enhancing preceptorship in order to support newly registered nurses as they transition to autonomous practice.

Madeline Siefert unpacks why skills in nursing are viewed as either hard or soft, and why we need to move on from this categorisation.

Equity needs to be built into social care reform from the outset and not treated as an expected outcome, according to MPs and sector leaders.

Two student have been selected for a new programme in Scotland that will train nursing graduates for leadership as soon as they start work.

Current use of oral hormone replacement therapy (HRT) is linked with an increased risk of blood clots in legs or lungs, a study has found.

Roger Macip Sancho explains why nurses are ideally placed to build valuable community connections and transform public health.

Find out more about an investigation that is underway involving three nurses who may have unlawfully viewed a dead teenager's records.

A charity dedicated to developing and supporting nurse leadership has been chosen as the partner for the 2026 Nursing Times Awards.

The first official government data on health visitors published in a decade has confirmed a concerning decline in the workforce. Read more.

Read about new research linking overcrowding in emergency departments with increased patient deaths, and reaction from nursing leaders.

Read about the opening of an employment tribunal between the Royal College of Nursing and nurse Sandie Peggie.

Find out more about plans in Scotland to expand the role of the nurse sexual offence examiner across the country.

Find out the top 10 areas of research that health visitors think should be prioritised to boost child health and development.

A joint initiative in Yorkshire aims to prevent, identify and respond to harassment and sexual misconduct affecting students on placements.

Illegal ketamine use may start in young people at the age of 13, suggests a group of doctors who treat bladder problems linked to the drug.

Nursing and emergency medicine leaders have reaffirmed their support for advanced clinical practitioners in response to renewed claims that doctor substitution is posing a risk to patient safety.

Farah Shah urges nurses to use the A to Z of pathogens resource, which complements the National Infection Prevention and Control Manual for England.

Read this article to learn how a support session for new starters trained abroad can be designed and evaluated.

Around 1,000 women in England with advanced breast cancer can now receive life-extending treatment, under guidance for the NHS from NICE.

England’s nurse shortage may be twice as severe as the NHS have recorded, a new report from a leading nursing union has suggested.

Rachel Shanahan, a children’s nurse from Birmingham, has been named as a winner in the national awards run by the charity WellChild.

A health and social care trust in Northern Ireland has appointed a mental health nurse to its occupational health team for the first time.

Patient safety initiative Martha’s rule is to be expanded to all accident and emergency departments in England, NHS leaders have announced.

We have launched a brand-new event to celebrate the women leading, innovating and driving change across health and social care.

The UK’s nursing watchdog are set to launch a multi-year strategy to improve the quality of their regulation of midwifery services. Read to find out more about their plans. The UK’s nursing watchdog a...

Nurses are encouraging women to be vigilant about the signs and symptoms of vulval and vaginal cancer and to act if they notice any changes.

NHS England has today launched what it described as the “largest-ever staff conversation on maternity and neonatal care”.

Find out about delays to the Nursing and Midwifery Council's projects to renew the profession's code of conduct and revalidation process.