Elections: Nursing counts
Published: 03 June 2009
On 4 June the UK goes to the polls to elect 72 politicians to the European Parliament. With nearly 400,000 members across the UK, the RCN has significant voting power and ensuring your vote goes to a candidate who shares our priorities could make the difference between nursing being top of the bill or last on the agenda.
Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) have significant decision making powers which can benefit patients and RCN members. They have influence over nurses' working hours and entitlement to compensatory rest; patients receiving treatment abroad; preventing needlestick injuries and workplace violence; control of counterfeit medicines and many other issues that fall within the scope of European law.
Read the RCN European elections manifesto in European elections 2009.
Use your vote and make the most of your opportunity to influence the European health agenda.
Don't forget that 34 local elections (4 June 2009) are also being held tomorrow too.