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Your England and Wales NHS pay awards are here

29 May 2025

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Pay Award for HSC staff in Northern Ireland signed off by Minister

23 May 2025

The Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt, has announced that he has signed off on a pay award in line with the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation of a 3.6% pay rise for those employed under Agenda for Change terms and conditions for 2025-26.

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Professor Dame June Clark at an RCN event in 2004

Remembering Professor Dame June Clark: ‘A champion for all nursing staff and students’

23 May 2025 Bulletin

We reflect on the life and work of nursing pioneer Dame June, including a speech she made to RCN Congress in 1991, when she addressed a Secretary of State directly