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More than a third of nurses who retired two years ago had returned to practice 12 months later, according to new NHS England figures.

Nursing Times has broken down some of the key points outlined in the Care Quality Commission's State of Care report 2022-23. Read more.

Read more about the first-ever UK clinical guidelines on treating harmful drinking and alcohol dependence and take part in the consultation.

Read this article to reflect on why experienced nurses are an important but neglected occupational group in workforce strategy planning.

The PM’s comments on recruitment agencies at the Tory conference were off but employment minister Guy Opperman struck a different tone.

The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan has set welcome targets for recruitment, but are its aspirations realistic given the current situation in general practice?

The downward trend in nurses working in adult social care has reversed for the first time in a decade, but the workforce remains “precarious”. Read more.

You may recall that a couple of weeks ago I wrote that the starting gun had been fired on key policy pledges ahead of the next general election.

Richard Marks explains why a group of anaesthetists is calling for a wider debate on increasing the number of anaesthesia associates In the past I never really gave much thought to anaesthesia associates. I knew that they were science graduates or healthcare practitioners who did a two year course that allowed them to provide anaesthetic care. Theoretically, they always worked under supervision and with a very restricted scope of practice, although I had heard from colleagues that both of these ...

Nursing staff have been “left out” of a new bonus scheme which aims to retain more public sector workers, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has warned.