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'Constant firefighting': safe staffing solutions in action
June’s created new pathways to support colleagues to escalate safe staffing concerns
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Registered Nurse-to-Patient Ratios: A synthesis of current guidance in the UK
Nursing is a safety critical profession. The work of registered nurses consists of many specialised and complex interventions, interwoven skilful expertise and surveillance. The RCN endorses enforceable minimum registered nurse-to-patient ratios, ensuring staffing levels do not fall to dangerously low levels and helping protect patients and nursing staff from avoidable harm. Across diverse settings, nursing presence and vigilance is critical to the safety of people, the prevention of avoidable harm and the management of risks. This resource makes explicit the information that is available (and not available) on registered nurse-to-patient ratios identified in staffing guidelines for different specialties. Where a ratio has been identified in published guidance, it may be valuable for staff and managers to refer to as part of discussions on what nurse staffing levels should be, in a meaningful way. It accompanies Why Registered Nurse-to-Patient Ratios are Needed: The rationale and evidence base (publication code: 012 610)
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Safe staffing: community nursing needs the full team too
RCN Wales is calling for Section 25B of the existing safe nurse staffing levels legislation to be extended
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Nurse-to-patient ratios are essential to safe staffing in every setting, RCN says
An RCN briefing explains why having enough registered nurses is critical to safety and wellbeing, and makes good economic sense
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The floor's the limit: the evidence every nursing professional should know about ratios and how to call time on unsafe staffing levels
Director of RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence, Professor Jane Ball shares how our new resources have been developed to help RCN members raise concerns about unsafe staffing in their workplaces.
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The Francis Galton Collection: A Visit to the UCL Object Based Learning Lab (in person)
Explore the dark side of data gathering through the troubling history of eugenics in this special visit to the UCL collections.
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RCN UK Joint Representatives’ Autumn Conference 2026
Applications are now closed.
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Probation and Preceptorship - Session 1
An event for RCN stewards and learning reps working in England in independent sector and NHS settings.
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Probation and Preceptorship - Session 2
An event for RCN stewards and learning reps working in England in independent sector and NHS settings.
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Job Evaluation for NHS stewards - Session 2
An event for RCN stewards working in the NHS about job evaluation.
