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Government has failed nursing as ministers ditch pay and career reform, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The government had a chance to set nursing on a new path, where it's valued, understood and rewarded fairly. It is now clear that ministers and the government are not in fact “on the side of nurses."
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Delayed NHS pay award risks making overseas nursing staff ineligible for visa renewal, as RCN warns Home Secretary that new immigration rules threaten nursing workforce
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “There is a risk that if governments do not take action to ensure that 2025/26 pay scales provide Band 3 staff with a salary above the new threshold, these roles will no longer be eligible for sponsorship.”
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The UK government must negotiate directly in wake of Scottish government's pay offer, urges RCN
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: "Scotland members will decide if their offer is acceptable but these figures reveal a gap in where the Westminster government is at for England and what direct negotiations with unions can secure elsewhere."
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Health secretary told to ‘get a grip’ as NHS pay award delayed
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: “Nursing staff deliver the vast majority of care in our NHS and are crucial to keeping patients safe, but yet again we won’t see a pay rise arrive on time. The government is failing to deliver the change it promised."
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'Nursing staff know even more challenging conditions are on the horizon’, Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England winter performance data
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “Sadly, health and social care services begin the new year as the last one ended, under pressure and under-staffed. The latest figures show soaring numbers of patients with flu being treated in over-stretched hospitals, demonstrating just how fragile the whole system is including community and primary care."
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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."
