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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
