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18 Nov 2025
RCN calls for pause to redundancies and bed cuts at Ashgate Hospice
The Royal College of Nursing in the East Midlands has voiced its concerns about Ashgate Hospice’s plans to cut inpatient beds and make more than 50 redundancies, calling for the organisation to pause the process to allow for further talks with the local Integrated Care Board.
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12 Nov 2025
RCN urges action following University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend Children’s and Mental Health Nursing programmes
The RCN has expressed deep concern over the University of Nottingham’s decision to suspend its Children’s Nursing and Mental Health Nursing courses from the 2026/27 intake, with a view to the permanent closure of these programmes.
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25 Jul 2025
‘We fought for band 3 status because we deserve it’
Three groups of RCN nursing support worker members denied a long overdue re-grading and pay rise by their NHS trust have won their appeals against the decision.
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16 Jul 2020
Leicester nurse becomes RCN Fellow
A pioneering nurse from Leicester has today been named a Fellow of the RCN.
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30 Oct 2019
RCN calls for re-think on health visitor changes in Lincolnshire
Lincolnshire County Council risks undermining efforts to give children the healthiest possible start in life by pursuing a “divisive” career progression scheme for its health visitors, according to the RCN.
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11 Jun 2019
LD100 celebrations come to the East Midlands
More than 70 members of the learning disability health care community came together from across the East Midlands yesterday (10 June) to celebrate 100 years of Learning Disability (LD) nursing.
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17 May 2019
RCN founder remembered on Nurses' Day
Nurses and RCN representatives commemorated Dame Sarah Swift, one of the RCN’s founders, at a special church service in the Lincolnshire village of Kirton to mark International Nurses’ Day.
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