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RCN Congress and Exhibition Harrogate 13-17 May 2012

Congress 2012 agenda

The Congress 2012 resolutions and matters for discussion were confirmed by Council on 9 February. Please see below the running order of what will be discussed and debated in Harrogate at Congress 2012.

The Council's report to members details progress on the agenda items from Congress 2011. You can also read the Congress Rules and Constitution to find out more about how Congress works.

Don't forget that you can submit emergency agenda items right up until and during Congress.

Click on an item to watch the debate, read the report and check the background information.

(M) = matter for discussion (R) = resolution

1. Corridor Wards

2. Paying for donations

3. Jam, Jerusalem, or jobs in the NHS?

4. Cashing in on good health

5. What place for private companies?

6. Video games

7. Transformation or not?

8. Shift impacts

9. TUC - to affiliate or not?

10. Too much at risk?

11. Media - friend or foe?

12. Flu jabs for all?

13. Retirement age - an issue for the future?

14. General hospitals - what next?

15. Not in your own time

16. Trade union erosion?

17. Techno care

18. Opportunities outside the NHS

19. Cuts, or cuts to care?

20. Rhetoric or reality?

21. Nurse education - is it fit for purpose?

22. Universal screening

23. Preceptorship - in the community?

24. Putting money where it's needed

25. Nursing the next generation

26E. Assuring the regulation of professional nursing

27E. NHS Direct and 111

28E. Local pay

The Congress Agenda Committee will now consider emergency agenda item submissions from now until the end of Congress (13-17 May 2012). Find out more on the submitting an emergency agenda item page.

The information here will help you put together either an emergency agenda item for 2012 or get you thinking for Congress 2013! 

  1. What makes a good topic?
  2. Resolution or matter for discussion?
  3. Getting your words in order
  4. What else do I need to do?
  5. Do the double check
  6. Submitting an emergency agenda item 
  7. What happens after submission?
  8. How to get help