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‘Nursing staff have never been more worried for patient safety’, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:“ The tragedy is this situation is not new, with these unacceptable conditions now seen all year round. Nursing staff have repeatedly called for investment in social care and community services to ease the pressure on hospitals, but successive governments ignored them."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Prime Minister’s plan to end waiting list backlogs
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Patients are waiting too long for treatment and modernisation in the NHS is needed. But the missing link in all of this is the nursing workforce. Nursing is crucial to a better future for health and social care, but there are tens of thousands of vacancies across every part of the system and every region in England."
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Patients dying in corridors as nurses prevented from delivering CPR, new report reveals
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “This devastating testimony from frontline nursing staff shows patients are coming to harm every day, forced to endure unsafe treatment in corridors, toilets, and even rooms usually reserved for families to visit deceased relatives."
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'Vulnerable people needing care cannot wait until 2028 for change’ - Royal College of Nursing responds to announcement of government commission on adult social care
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Social care requires long overdue reform. Although today's announcement is a step in the right direction, the reality is that a commission due to report in three years' time will do little to solve the crisis in the here and now."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the UK Government's NHS Mandate and NHS England's 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The health secretary says he wants to get ‘back to basics’, but the basic truth is you cannot cut waiting times and transform care without tackling the crisis in nursing."
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Nursing staff still reporting corridor care as jam-packed hospitals struggle with norovirus and delayed discharges
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “We still don't know how many patients are being cared for in these conditions and the government needs to be open with the public about the scale of the challenge. Transparency is crucial to turning this situation around."
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Pressure on nursing staff unrelenting as norovirus surges in NHS, says RCN
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: “From one of the busiest summers ever, to now surging norovirus, the pressure on nursing staff is unrelenting. They are doing their best to keep people safe, but widespread vacancies and not enough beds mean they face an impossible job. Across England, they continue to report patients being crammed into corridors – ministers need to step up and act."
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RCN position on asbestos in health and social care buildings
RCN position on asbestos in health and social care buildings
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Guidance on pin site care
This publication is under review and is due to be republished early 2020. Publication produced as a result of the project and offers guidance for the practice of pin site care based on expert opinion.
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A decisive decade: Mapping the future NHS workforce
Interim report taken from the forthcoming Royal College of Nursing Labour Market Review (LMR) 2011. Looks at the challenges facing nursing and the nursing workforce across the UK in 2011 which we believe are the greatest for a generation.
