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Greater Manchester Pre-Congress Branch Meeting
A planning meeting ahead of Congress 2025 for local members.
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North West Independent Health and Social Care Conference
Our annual in-person event for members employed in independent health and social care settings.
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Medicine supply and administration
Access this resource to find out more about good medicines management (also described as ‘medicines optimization’), including the administration of medicines and prescribing and supporting people to take their medicines correctly.
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Prescribing in pregnancy
As nursing practice advances to encompass prescribing, this resource offers signposting to further information about the principles of good practice when caring for and prescribing medication to pregnant and postnatal women.
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Patient Specific Directions and Patient Group Directions
Learn more about Patient Specific Directions (PSD), which is a written instruction signed by a prescriber for medicines to be supplied and/or administered to a named patient after being assessed.
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Student loan forgiveness would keep nurses in profession for up to a decade longer
Nursing education must see investment from ministers, as an RCN report reveals the positive impact funding could have on staff numbers and patient care
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Royal College of Nursing responds to health secretary’s pledge to ‘rebuild the health service’ ahead of NHS 10 Year Plan launch
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “A fundamental shift from hospital to community is crucial, but the reality is that today’s NHS simply does not have the nursing numbers to deliver it. Without new investment, the number of community nurses will stay on track to be half what it was two decades ago."
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Fixing the Leaking Pipeline
In this RCN Policy report we assess the gaps in the domestic nursing supply pipeline which (1) limit the potential output (2) cause nursing students to leave their studies and (3) lead to early career nurses leaving. Based on this, we recommend a package of interventions to fix the pipeline and resolve issues of high attrition and low output.
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RCN Professional Leads for nursing practice
Our Professional Leads provide guidance and support to RCN Forums, which are made up of ordinary members with a passion for improving practice in their specialism.
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Raising the voice of the specialist nurse
UK Professional Lead Long Term Conditions, Callum Metcalfe-O'Shea, explains how on behalf of the Diabetes Forum, his attendance at vital conferences can help raise the voice of specialist nursing to promote roles and improvements in care.
