POLICY: Non-Surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill

RCN Scotland response to Health Committee call for evidence on Non-Surgical Procedures and Functions of Medical Reviewers (Scotland) Bill

COVID inquiry: ‘Never again can nursing and the public be failed like this’ 

Nursing staff were a constant presence during the pandemic, and now formal recognition of long COVID as an industrial disease is urgently needed

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Without urgent action entire hospitals risk being overwhelmed by corridor care this winter, warns Royal College of Nursing

Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis said: “Corridor care is unsafe and undignified for patients and demoralising for the healthcare staff forced to care in these circumstances. It is now more than a year since nursing staff first sounded the alarm on this crisis and the disaster in our hospitals shows little sign of improvement."

2025 BAME Ally of the Year

RCN Yorkshire & the Humber Board member Joan Pons Laplana recognised at the 2025 BAME Awards.

Supporting future nurses: My journey back to the University of East Anglia

In this blog, Callum Metcalfe-O’Shea, UK Professional Lead for Long-Term Conditions, talks about his experience of going back to the University of East Anglia (UEA) where he was once a nursing student, to now teach the next generation of students and how this MSc course is supporting nurses of the future.

AI has great potential and must enhance personal nursing care but not replace it, says Royal College of Nursing

RCN UK Head of Nursing Practice Stephen Jones said: “AI has great potential to modernise services, but ministers shouldn’t be completely seduced by it alone. It must enhance personal nursing care, not replace it, and be delivered alongside new investment in growing the nursing workforce.”