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Royal College of Nursing responds to Dawn Butler MP introducing Bill to legally protect the title ‘nurse’
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Nursing is a safety critical profession, and the title ‘nurse’ needs to be protected. Patients deserve to know that when they are being treated by a registered nurse, that they can trust the knowledge, professionalism, and clinical expertise that brings."
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Nursing staff ready to lead roll-out of neighbourhood health service but workforce plan needed, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "To make this a reality, the secretary of state must produce a detailed and fully funded plan to grow our registered nurse workforce, especially in crucial community roles."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to public health grant allocations for 25/26
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “The increase in the public health grant is a step in the right direction for the government’s ambitions to shift towards prevention but short-term funding will not cover for years of cuts, nor help rescue the public health nursing workforce, which has been decimated over the last decade."
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Nursing staff tell secretary of state how to deliver NHS reforms
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger said: “The health secretary heard directly from nursing staff about how best to transform our NHS. We are the largest workforce inside the health service, delivering the vast majority of care, and our clinical skills and knowledge are priceless. For the government’s plan to succeed, our profession must be valued as thinkers as well as do-ers."
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Cutting overseas aid budget makes us more vulnerable to future global health threats, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Associate Director: International Nursing, Marcus Wootton, said: “Cutting overseas aid will further damage global health projects and make us more vulnerable to the global health threats of the future. Stronger health systems, with nurses at their centre, reduce instability, and support more stable societies."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to resignation of NHS England Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “I wish to offer my thanks to Amanda Pritchard for her dedication and hard-work in leading the NHS through an exceptionally challenging post-pandemic period."
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No end in sight to the pressures on the wards, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Every day patients are being admitted only to be treated in corridors in unsafe and undignified conditions. This year-round crisis cannot simply be passed over as winter pressures."
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Government should solve corridor care crisis within a year if it acts now, public says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The public and nursing staff can see a tragedy for patients unfolding before their eyes. They know care standards are unacceptable and they want government to act decisively."
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Nursing staff face ‘impossible task’ as record numbers wait more than 12 hours for a bed, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Hospitals are jam-packed and patients are lining corridors routinely. A fall in waiting lists is welcome but will be of little comfort to the nursing staff trying to keep patients safe under some of the most extreme pressures in NHS history."
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'Devastating' winter pressures show no sign of declining, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: “Even as temperatures rise, the devastating pressures on nursing staff show little sign of declining. Viruses are ripping through already packed hospitals, leaving overstretched staff without enough beds to place patients."
