Open letters
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13 Nov 2025
RCN letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
A letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, discussing both the issues of discrimination and anti-immigration policies impacting on the nursing workforce.
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13 Nov 2025
RCN letter to Secretary of State for Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Affairs
A letter to the new Foreign Secretary, Rt Hon Yvette Cooper MP, discussing both the issues on nurses working in conflict around the world and the shortage of the nursing workforce globally.
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13 Nov 2025
Joint letter on the continued lack of action on the COVID command paper
Joint letter with the BMA to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions on the third anniversary of the COVID command paper.
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15 Oct 2025
Joint statement on anti-migrant rhetoric
A joint trade union letter on anti-immigrant sentiment and racism, calling for solidarity with the international workforce and migrant communities.
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8 Oct 2025
Corridor care data letter to Sir James Mackey
Follow up letter to Sir James Mackey about corridor care data.
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5 Sep 2025
Joint letter supporting medical evacuations of children from Gaza
Joint letter supporting medical evacuations of children from Gaza.
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2 Sep 2025
Joint statement on general practice funding
Joint statement from the Royal College of Nursing and British Medical Association General Practitioners Committee England, as representatives of the two largest professions within general practice.
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8 Aug 2025
Corridor care coalition letter to Sir James Mackey on Data
An RCN-led coalition of health care and patient organisations has today written to James Mackey, NHS England Chief Executive, to urge NHSE to publish data on corridor care. The RCN has called for mandatory reporting on corridor care - which NHSE has committed to publishing – but the data has still not been released. This data is critical to building an honest picture of how corridor care is affecting patients and staff across the system, as well as the scale of the problem. We are urging NHSE to release this data without further delay.
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24 Jul 2025
Letter to Minister for Migration and Citizenship - Immigration Salary Threshold
RCN President Bejoy Sebastian has written to the Minister for Migration and Citizenship, Seema Malhotra, to raise an urgent concern about the impact of the new immigration salary threshold on staff in NHS band 3 roles.
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17 Jun 2025
Joint Letter to UK Foreign Secretary on Humanitarian Crisis in Gaza
Joint letter from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), Royal College of Physicians (RCP), Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP), International Child Health Group (ICHG), and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) on the ongoing humanitarian crisis in Gaza.
