Press Releases
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25/02/2026
Press Release
Fair Pay Agreement must have 'real teeth' and be implemented without delay, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Director of Policy, Amber Jabbal, said: “Improving wages and workplace rights in social care are crucial to bolstering the sector’s workforce and easing pressure on the NHS. But desperately needed reforms have been continually kicked down the road."
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25/02/2026
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Not for the first time this new contract has failed to recognise the vital contribution of the general practice nursing workforce
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: "We must now see ministers commit to discussions to rebuild trust and ensure nursing staff are never left out again.”
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12/02/2026
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Below inflation pay rise 'an insult', says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “A pay award below the current level of inflation is an insult. Unless inflation falls, the government is forcing a very real pay cut on its NHS workers. This knife-edge gameplaying is no way to treat people who prop up a system in crisis."
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12/02/2026
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Record 12-hour A&E waits show how endemic corridor care is, says RCN
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis, said: “Nursing staff have been sounding the alarm for far too long about the crisis in our A&E departments. Today’s figures show just how endemic corridor care is and the damage being done to patient care."
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11/02/2026
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Government announces ‘significant’ improvement to nursing career progression following RCN talks
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said today’s announcement is significant progress on career progression for nursing staff.
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09/02/2026
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Recognition of the problem and efforts to resolve it are vindication of the alarm call from nursing staff, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Corridor care is a system-wide problem, with patients unable to access community, mental health or social care services when they need it and having no choice but to turn up at A&E, and requires transformation in every part of the system."
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04/02/2026
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Dashboard is flashing red for a workforce drowning under toxic workloads and unsafe staffing levels, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: “Nursing staff take pride in doing their best for patients but this report shows the dashboard is flashing red for a workforce drowning under unmanageable workloads, unsafe staffing levels within toxic environments."
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04/02/2026
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Meeting targets, reducing waiting times and helping people live longer needs highly skilled nurses, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: “The reality is that a successful cancer plan needs nursing staff at its heart. That includes highly skilled Advanced Nurse Practitioners and cancer nurse specialists who devise and deliver person-centred treatment plans, but also community, district nurses and palliative care nurses who help people recover and live with cancer from home. "
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29/01/2026
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Premature deaths can be avoided if government commits to safe nurse staffing, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The consequences of the failure to deliver detailed, fully funded workforce plans are evident across every NHS setting, with patient needs regularly going unmet and care standards collapsing."
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29/01/2026
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RCN statement on death of registered nurse Alex Pretti
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Nursing is a global family, and Alex Pretti’s death in such violent circumstances will be felt deeply."
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