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Corridor care a year-round tragedy and a symptom of NHS in crisis, RCN responds to Royal College of Physicians survey
RCN Executive Director for England, Patricia Marquis said: “This powerful survey adds to the experience of nursing staff working on the front line. They know only too well the devastating impact of treating patients in corridors, it is undignified, unsafe, and unacceptable."
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Almost a third of general practice nursing staff left waiting for pay rise, as RCN warns crisis undermining NHS reforms
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis said: “Nursing staff working in general practice work at the front door of the NHS and are central to its success, but they are being repeatedly failed by the government when it comes to their pay."
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‘Nursing fatigue is deadly and should be treated as a public safety emergency’ warns Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: “This report lays bare the daily reality for nursing staff. They are overstretched, understaffed and regularly work beyond their hours caring for too many patients."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to report on barriers to healthcare degree apprenticeships
RCN Executive Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Health leaders have identified apprenticeships as a means of boosting recruitment into nursing, including for those who cannot afford to take on debt and go to university. However, the findings of this report show the route is failing to help close the gap left by a broken tuition fee model, with trusts lacking the funding to keep up with costs, while limited clinical placements leave NHS England unable to meet its own targets."
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Relentless winter pressures expose workforce shortages and lack of beds, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “This record-breaking winter has pushed nursing staff to the edge. Surging viruses have exposed workforce shortages and a lack of beds, whilst an underfunded social care sector is prevented from working with hospitals to discharge patients well enough to leave."
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Ministers cannot dismiss this as a blip or think they can turn this around without investing in the nursing workforce, Royal College of Nursing responds to the British Social Attitudes Survey on public satisfaction with the NHS
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Public satisfaction with the NHS has sunk to a new low and this will come as little surprise to nursing staff who always want to be able to give outstanding care to those they look after."
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Government has failed nursing as ministers ditch pay and career reform, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The government had a chance to set nursing on a new path, where it's valued, understood and rewarded fairly. It is now clear that ministers and the government are not in fact “on the side of nurses."
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Delayed NHS pay award risks making overseas nursing staff ineligible for visa renewal, as RCN warns Home Secretary that new immigration rules threaten nursing workforce
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “There is a risk that if governments do not take action to ensure that 2025/26 pay scales provide Band 3 staff with a salary above the new threshold, these roles will no longer be eligible for sponsorship.”
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Royal College of Nursing responds to new Work Rights Centre report 'Safeguarding Sponsored Workers'
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “We raised the alarm last year on exploitation in the care sector and the home secretary has promised an investigation, now is the time."
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The UK government must negotiate directly in wake of Scottish government's pay offer, urges RCN
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: "Scotland members will decide if their offer is acceptable but these figures reveal a gap in where the Westminster government is at for England and what direct negotiations with unions can secure elsewhere."
