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Royal College of Nursing responds to the King’s Fund ‘Social Care 360’ report
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “At the heart of this is a social care system with funding falling increasingly short while the number of nursing staff is not keeping pace with demand."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Centre for Mental Health/NHS Confederation report on moving mental health care into the community
Stephen Jones, RCN Head of Nursing Practice, said: “As this study shows, there simply is not the provision to match the rising demand for mental health services. The consequences of this are dire. Patients in crisis are forced to attend overcrowded and stressful hospitals, while overworked and understaffed nursing teams deal with waiting rooms spilling over into corridors."
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Nursing union updates its workforce standards and urges employers to adopt them as a 'matter of urgency'
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: "The Nursing Workforce Standards are already being used by RCN members to challenge staffing and safety issues in their workplaces. I am delighted that the newly revised edition takes into account new evidence as well as feedback from our members and nursing experts."
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'There is no hope of delivering the government’s reforms whilst the NHS is simultaneously being asked to cut staff and services’, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “It’s an appalling state of affairs when trust leaders talk about cutting frontline roles and closing beds to make savings. Nursing staff already face an almost impossible job as they try to keep patients safe amidst a workforce crisis and rising demand."
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Gen Z key to solving 'ticking time bomb’ workforce crisis, nursing leader says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Young people can see the value nursing has to society and they have passion for care and public service. But low pay and the prospect of working in underfunded services mean so few consider it a career for them. Gen Z are the future of our profession and key to transforming health and care for decades to come."
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Nursing leader calls for ‘urgent’ investment in mental health nursing as ‘degrading’ 12h+ waits rise five-fold
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Severely ill mental health patients waiting days for treatment in stressful and brightly lit A+Es is a scandal in plain sight. These conditions are not “the norm” and nursing staff will not accept them."
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Nursing union responds to PAC report on the abolition of NHS England
RCN Executive Director of England, Patricia Marquis, said: “When it was announced, we warned that the abolition of NHS England must not repeat the chaotic reorganisation that created it. This report shows the government wasn’t listening and moved too fast without proper consultation."
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Cutting nurse jobs will cost lives, Royal College of Nursing warns
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This is NHS leaders themselves coming clean about the perilous state of the NHS. With just weeks until the biggest government spending review in years, this cannot go ignored."
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Ending Level 7 Apprenticeship funding undermines shift from hospitals to community, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Today’s announcement from the Education Secretary not only shuts off an important career route for staff but also undermines the government’s own ambition to shift care from hospitals to the community."
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Immigration measures 'pandering and scapegoating', Royal College of Nursing says ahead of Prime Minister's speech
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Many of you in this hall today started your nursing journey far away. So let me say again: you are more than welcome in the UK. Thank you for bringing your skills to this country and bringing your lives here. You know, more than I ever will, the obstacles, costs and the hostility."
