Progress on 2007 agenda items
- Right numbers, right care
That this meeting of RCN Congress demands UK-wide legislation to ensure appropriate staffing levels.
Submitting entity: RCN Lothian Branch - Cutting back on basics?
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the impact of NHS modernisation on essential training and education of health care staff.
Submitting entity: RCN Exeter Branch - Changing times - changing us?
That this meeting of RCN Congress considers the challenges of the rapidly changing health and social care environment and how it impacts on where and how RCN members are employed.
Submitting entity: RCN West Midlands Board - Fair care for people with dementia
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for RCN Council to lobby health care providers, commissioners and government to enable people with dementia to have access to a full range of health care services.
Submitting entity: RCN Derby Branch - No more trust or bust
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for government to stop closing health services for cost reasons alone.
Submitting entity: RCN Mid Surrey Branch - Crisis in the community
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the impact of the current NHS financial crisis on community nursing.
Submitting entity: RCN Health Visitors and Public Heath Forum - Lost in transition
That this meeting of RCN Congress agrees that there should be standards to ensure safe and effective transfer from children and young peoples services to adults’ services.
Submitting entity: RCN Children and Young People Mental Health Forum - Picking up the paperwork
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the need to increase administrative support for nurses so they can spend more time directly caring for patients.
Submitting entity: RCN Mental Health Nursing Forum - Expert nurse - looking after the future
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges government to safeguard the role of the expert nurse in the 21st century.
Submitting entity: RCN Islington Branch - More support for perinatal mental illness
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges RCN Council to lobby government for the appropriate resources to assess, support and treat women who develop perinatal mental illness.
Submitting entity: RCN Gynaecological Nursing Forum - Practice placements - can we find the time?
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses how we sustain 2,300 hours of practice placement learning in the current NHS climate.
Submitting entity: RCN Education Forum - Agenda for Change – independent sector needs it too
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges RCN Council to fight for nurses in the independent sector to receive Agenda for Change pay, terms and conditions.
Submitting entity: RCN Yorkshire and the Humber Board - Back WHO on malaria
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for RCN Council to lobby the UK governments and the International Council of Nurses to back the World Health Organization’s drive to control malaria.
Submitting entity: RCN Greater Gwent Branch - How far can it go?
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for government to privatise the NHS.
Submitting entity: RCN South Oxon Branch - Include not exclude
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses how best to provide health care, and facilitate access to it, for people who are not registered with GPs.
Submitting entity: RCN Health Visitors and Public Heath Forum - Step it up for Hep C
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for government to fully fund the Hepatitis C strategies.
Submitting entity: RCN Health Visitors and Public Heath Forum - Sentenced to poor health
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls for RCN Congress to condemn the current overcrowding in prisons because of the effect that this has on prisoners’ health and on the prison nurses who care for them.
Submitting entity: RCN Lewisham and North Southwark Branch - Computerised patient records - what can they offer?
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the potential of computerised patient records to show explicitly how nursing makes a difference to patient care, to provide evidence to support staffing and skill-mix decisions, and help to cost care.
Submitting entity: RCN Information in Nursing (IN) Group - Better at home
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges government to expand and develop resources within the community setting for technologically-dependent neonates and children.
Submitting entity: RCN Paediatric and Neonatal Intensive Care Nurses Forum - Shifting care - or reducing services?
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses how the care given to older people and the mentally ill is being affected by the move from secondary to primary care.
Submitting entity: RCN Northampton Branch - Help for performance management
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the support needed for managers who are accused of bullying and harassment whilst attempting to manage performance.
Submitting entity: RCN Lewisham and North Southwark Branch - It's taking a gamble
That this meeting of RCN Congress believes that the relaxation in gambling legislation will impact negatively on public health and calls on RCN Council to lobby government to amend the legislation.
Submitting entity: RCN Health Visitors and Public Heath Forum - All on board
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls on RCN Council to set up an England National Board, on a par with the RCN Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland boards, to bring together the work of the RCN English regions.
Submitting entity: RCN Information in Nursing (IN) Group - Voice at the top
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges RCN Council to lobby government to ensure that nursing has strategic input to all bodies concerned with health regulation and policy development.
Submitting entity: RCN Fertility Nurses Group - Respite care - a postcode lottery
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the impact on “informal” carers when properly resourced respite care is unavailable.
Submitting entity: RCN Ethics Forum - No more bangers for cash
That this meeting of RCN Congress urges RCN Council to lobby government to ban the sale of fireworks to the general public.
Submitting entity: RCN Swansea Branch - Continental shift
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the opportunities to support and enhance the mobility of a pan-European nursing workforce.
Submitting entity: RCN Education Forum - To accept or not to accept the phased pay award 2007 (Emergency Resolution)
That this meeting of RCN Congress demands that the independent pay review body recommendations are implemented in full by all governments from 1 April 2007.
Submitting entity: RCN Welsh Board - Back to the Future! (Emergency Resolution)
That this meeting of RCN Congress lobbies the governments of the UK to stop reducing the number of pre-registration nurse training places.
Submitting entity: RCN Welsh Board - Emergency Resolution
An emergency resolution was proposed and allocated this number. However, it was subsequently withdrawn and no debate took place. - Emergency Resolution
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls on Council now to invoke rule 12 of the RCN Charter and Bye-laws and investigate what form of industrial action would be appropriate in relation to the pay offer.