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Employment and pay
The RCN supports the nursing and healthcare professions in the UK to ensure that employment conditions and pay are fair for all.
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Becoming an RCN Wales Representative
Are you interested in becoming an RCN Wales Rep? Join our webinar to find out about the roles available and how you can be involved.
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NHS conditions of employment
Standard working hours, overtime, annual leave, sickness absence and on-call working arrangements
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RCN Fellows and Honorary Fellows
RCN Fellows are inspirational leaders who have made an exceptional contribution to nursing and improving health and patient care.
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Home Secretary’s proposed immigration reforms ‘entirely incompatible’ with ambitions for a National Care Service, warns RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Migrant nursing staff hold our health and care system together and have built lives in our country and become part of our communities. The Home Secretary's proposals would amount to a betrayal by reneging on our commitment to them because it’s politically convenient and would make the UK a significant outlier internationally."
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Pathways to Settlement for Internationally Educated Nurses: Findings from an international comparison
This briefing highlights the key findings of a comparative analysis of different countries’ pathways to settlement for internationally educated nurses undertaken by MigrationWork CIC and commissioned by the RCN. It highlights the existing and proposed UK policies for settlement and their potential impacts for the nursing workforce.
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Indefinite Leave to Remain: proposed changes that could reshape nursing workforce
How planned changes to the settlement system affect you, and why the RCN's fighting back
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Why every nursing student should go to RCN Congress (at least once)
Josie Gordon, Congress Agenda Committee member, reflects on her first experience of RCN Congress – and why she believes every nursing student should attend.
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My journey with the RCN Catheter Care Guidelines
This blog shares a personal reflection on moving from my long term clinical use of the RCN Catheter Care Guidelines to playing a role in its review. It highlights the importance of lived clinical experience, evolving practice, and the confidence gained in contributing to the review.
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‘Dirty nursing’ arises from shame and stigma in women’s health
RCN Fellow Professor Helen Allan says funding and delivery of high standards of health care to women will only improve once we acknowledge that women’s health is underfunded and stigmatised.
