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Our work
RCN Northern's work reflects the interests of the nurses, nursing support workers, retired nursing staff and nursing students who look to us for advice, guidance and support and work with us to improve the interests of the nursing profession.
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Infection Prevention and Control Network
This forum is for members with an interest in infection prevention, regardless of practice setting or role.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health Service Journal report on leaked plans to attract workers into NHS technology roles
Responding to a Health Service Journal report on leaked plans around using recruitment and retention premia to attract workers into NHS technology roles, RCN Director of Legal Services & Member Relations Joanne Galbraith-Marten said: “In these plans, the NHS shows it’s prepared to do things differently to attract talent to the NHS. When professions struggle to recruit, it sees salary enhancements as a viable option to solve a workforce issue - in this case for roles that are predominantly filled by men."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to The King's Fund's analysis - 'Illustrating the relationship between poverty and NHS services'
RCN Deputy Chief Nurse, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: “Every day, nursing staff see the impact poverty has on people’s health. But despite working in every possible setting – from people’s homes to social care and emergency departments – they are often powerless to stop the root causes of poverty that lead to poor health."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Workforce Race Equality Standard and Workforce Disability Equality Standard reports
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Discrimination in the NHS is systemic - and it’s clear the health service still has a long way to go in overcoming the prejudices that both patients and staff face. It’s promising to see some progress – including an increase in the number of Black, Asian and minority ethnic staff at senior manager level – but it is not nearly fast enough, and the NHS can ill afford to waste more time moving at this glacial pace."
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RCN equity, diversity and inclusion strategy: member survey now open
Members are encouraged to share their views and attend a workshop to help shape this crucial work.
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Why nurses caring for older people need to know about social care
Knowing only about nursing care of older people is no longer enough. Nurses must now inform families about other issues and signpost them to supports on topics as wide as benefits, allowances, carers' rights, legal rights, and how to navigate the whole health and social care system.
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Ambitious and funded actions required from the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce
RCN Scotland has pressed the new Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care to ensure the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce recommendations reflect our priorities for action.
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Not all nurses wear blue – pre-hospital nursing
An insight into moving from a career based in the hospital environment to the pre-hospital environment.
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My career progression in the care home sector
Sarah Hammond, Deputy Manager at Victoria Chatsworth care home in Sussex, on her career path from HCA to a Nursing Associate university course.
