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In 2012, Nicola Sturgeon took a fateful decision to reduce student nursing places (Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images)

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Health unions back new pay offer for millions of NHS staff

Strike will continue until close to midnight today May 1.

Nurses strike continues: Major disruption for NHS services in England

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

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

Protesters gather at a Protect The Right To Strike rally in Glasgow on Wednesday

Readers' letters: There's nothing selfish about taking strike action

Striking nurses hold signs at a picket line outside University College Hospital in London on January 19, 2023.

Government recommends 3.5% pay increase to nurses and other workers

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

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Readers' letters: Nursing strikes highlight Tory hypocrisy

Working people face a "cocktail of disaster" as wages shrink in real terms and costs rise due to spiralling inflation, writes Ian Murray MP. PIC: PA.

Time to drain this Tory cocktail of disaster for working people in 2023

Nurses in Scotland are to announce dates for strike action early next year as union rejects pay offer

Nurses in Scotland are to announce dates for strike action ed

A group of fraudsters have been posing as ambulance staff and knocking on doors asking for financial support ahead of upcoming industrial action.

Fraudsters posing as ambulance staff seen asking for donations

Summary of all strikes taking place in Sussex this month (Photo by JUSTIN TALLIS/AFP via Getty Images)

Nursing strikes to go ahead this week after pay talks fail

Nurses on strike at the Ulster Hospital during the last walkout two years ago

Nurses strike 2022: Dates confirmed for largest walkout in NHS history

Nurses vote to strike across UK in huge industrial action over pay

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Covid Scotland: New record number of patients in hospital with virus
The number of patients in hospital with Covid in Scotland has climbed to a new record high.
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Staff at the Royal Infirmary 'lost trust and confidence' in NHS Lothian over parking permits

Frontline staff 'lost trust and confidence' in NHS Lothian over parking permits

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Scotland must ‘plan for the worst’ as Omicron spreads to older population

NHS staff at Glasgow's Queen Elizabeth University Hospital participate in the Clap for Carers and key workers. Picture: Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images

Nursing staff back industrial action over pay

Staff at computers in an A&E department. Picture: OLI SCARFF/AFP via Getty Images

Nurses balloted for strike action amid fresh warnings over patient safety

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Scrapping of healthcare staff self-isolation will cause 'anger and concern'

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Nurses union accused of 'hounding out' policy officer over trans rights work

The Royal College of Nursing is encouraging nursing staff to reject the pay offer picture: PA

Nursing staff encouraged to reject Scottish Government pay offer

A multitude of healthcare bodies in the UK are asking the Government for better personal protection against Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

UK health workers want the government to update 'inadequate' Covid PPE guidance

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It’s time we paid our care workers better - Alison Johnstone

An estimated 75,000 nurses in the UK haven’t received a first Covid jab (Photo by Jane Barlow - Pool/Getty Images)

An estimated 75,000 nurses in the UK haven’t received a first Covid jab

More than 850 health and social care workers have died of Covid in England and Wales since the pandemic began (Photo: Shutterstock)

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Health care assistant Paula Kirlew (right) and Nurse Helen Abbatt (left) prepare the BioNTech/Pfizer Covid-19 vaccine for doctors to administer.

Higher grade face mask requirements considered in Scotland

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One in 10 care homes were told to change resuscitation orders for patients

Why NHS asked care home staff not to resuscitate patients during Covid peak

The NHS Confederation warned that certain departments will find they are only able to operate at about 60 percent of their normal activity levels. (Credit: Shutterstock)

Up to 10 million people could be on the NHS waiting list by Christmas

A minute's silence will be held across the UK today (28 April) to commemorate the key workers who have lost their lives from Covid-19 (Photo: Shutterstock)

What time is today's minute's silence for key workers?

Nicola Sturgeon said she would back a plan to pay tribute to NHS staff who have lost their lives

Nicola Sturgeon backs plan to hold minute’s silence for NHS workers

A team of experts at the University of Oxford are working to develop a vaccine that could prevent people from getting Covid-19

Coronavirus vaccine trial ‘could be completed by August’

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RCN Scotland Director

Nurses anxious over care home 'danger'

The number of children in Scotland hospitalised for asthma attacks surges when they return to school after the summer holidays, according to new analysis by Asthma UK. Picture: TSPL

Child asthma attacks surge 70% on return to classroom

The lack of nurses is having impact on patient care staff have warned.

NHS staff shortages compromising patient care warns nurses

Nurses are set to protest over pay. Picture; Greg Macvean

Nurses to stage a '˜summer of protests' over pay

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Letters: Drunks should be charged for using NHS services

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Health professions unite to call for NHS changes

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ERI audit raises beds concerns

Stressed-out nurses reach breaking point

Staff nurse facing child sex abuse charges is suspended

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Lack of qualified nurses puts old people at risk in hospital

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Nurses back proposals for digitisation

400 nursing jobs to go in latest NHS Lothian cuts