Today is Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday. The nurse often sentimentally depicted as “the lady with the lamp” should be better known as an early epidemiologist or “the lady with the stats”, writes Fiona Cassie
A new pay parity step will be funded from February for senior practice nurses signed up to the current pay talks – all other practices will have to wait until 1 July at the earliest
Primary care leaders are repeating last year’s Budget bid for a ‘patch’ repair to capitation funding to better reflect health inequities and today’s high needs patients
An improved practice nurses’ pay offer will go to the vote in the New Year after yesterday’s meeting between the nurses’ union and employer advocates for the 500-plus practices party to the talks