Membership FAQs

This guide answers FAQs about RCN membership. It covers joining the RCN, payments and direct debits, tax relief, confirmation of membership, cancelling, changing your address or other details, forgotten membership numbers, and how and when to contact the RCN.

RCN Wales Responds to Latest UCAS Nursing Applicant Figures

The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Wales welcomes the latest figures released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for the 2025 nursing application and acceptance cycle.

Library Service Standards

RCN Wales responds to Welsh government final budget for 2025/26

Welsh government announces additional £30 million for social care to target delayed hospital discharges and community care

Meet the Team

More information about the Defence Nursing Forum Committee, including biographies and contact information.

Object Highlight – Enema Territory

If you follow us on social media, you may have seen our first Object of the Month post in July – a 1920s ‘Improved Enema Syringe’ produced by Boots, the Chemist.

Domestic abuse: nursing’s silent epidemic

Around 100 women and 30 men die every year as a result of domestic abuse. Recognising the signs in your patients or colleagues can save lives.

NHS nursing staff vote to reject government pay award for current year

RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the determination of nursing staff to stand up for themselves, their patients and the NHS they believe in."

Building connections through networking can lay the foundations for our future

Building connections through networking can lay the foundations for our futures

Scottish government’s Winter Preparedness Plan must address ‘corridor care’

We’ve called for the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to directly address the patient safety and dignity concerns associated with corridor care through the Winter Preparedness Plan being presented to Scottish Parliament.