More than 200,000 nurses and patients have signed a petition calling on the Department of Education to modify the policy.

Nursing advocates say a proposed rule could worsen a shortage of professionals in the field and lead to worse health outcomes ...

There has been a dramatic fall in the number of student nurses dropping out of courses, figures obtained by Nursing Times show. The ‘attrition rate’ of first year nursing students in 2010-11 fell to ...