Press Releases
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15/06/2026
Press Release
Unfolding Ebola crisis is deeply concerning, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN International Academy Associate Director, Marcus Wootton said: "This outbreak shows why sustained investment in global health matters. When surveillance, infection prevention, staffing and basic supplies are weak, outbreaks become harder to contain, and nurses and others carry the risk. Cutting support for health systems is a false economy and very damaging to global health."
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12/06/2026
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the King’s Birthday Honours 2026
RCN President Bejoy Sebastian, said: “Nursing is an incredible and rewarding profession and you are an inspiration to the nursing staff of today and tomorrow. Your shining example shows the difference we can make and represents the very best of the profession."
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12/06/2026
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New Health Bill amendment a ‘significant victory’ to safeguard nurse leadership in NHS decision making, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “This is a significant victory for nursing, safeguarding its seat at the top table of NHS foundation trusts. It maintains the existing legal requirement which the government had previously intended to scrap. We have fought hard for this amendment, and it is a breakthrough moment with the government listening to our calls to ensure board level nurse leadership is protected."
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11/06/2026
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Alarming corridor care figures damning indictment of just how far care standards have fallen, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Behind these figures aren’t just patients and families suffering, but nursing staff demoralised at being forced to deliver poor care, day in day out."
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11/06/2026
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NHS workforce plan ‘must be paused’ over concerns it fails to safely grow staff numbers and over-relies on AI, say health unions and professional bodies
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The newly appointed Secretary of State has a pivotal opportunity to apply the brakes and think again. More detailed and meaningful engagement with the expert organisations and vital NHS staff who are standing ready to make this plan a success, will be critical for ensuring the safety of patients for generations to come.”
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08/06/2026
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This catastrophe has been unfolding unchecked in our hospitals for far too long, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This is the tragic reality when people are left to wait in overcrowded and under-resourced A&Es"
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04/06/2026
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Lord Mann’s review into antisemitism and other forms of racism in the NHS
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:. It’s absolutely essential that staff are safe at work, but the reality is racism in the NHS is on the rise, as is violence, aggression and sexual harassment. That these behaviours have become so normalised is alarming."
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28/05/2026
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Professional Standards Authority report 'damning indictment' of NMC, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Lynn Woolsey, said a report from the Professional Standards Authority (PSA) provides a damning indictment of the NMC, finding that it meets just half of the standards expected of a regulator.
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27/05/2026
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Nursing and Midwifery Council 'severely undermining' trust in the profession, says RCN
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Professor Lynn Woolsey said the failing called into question whether the NMC it is fit for purpose as the nursing profession’s regulator.
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27/05/2026
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Understaffed health visitors unable to carry out vital checks leaving health of youngest at risk, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The reality is there is no hidden army of health visitors and school nurses waiting in the wings to transform care, deliver crucial advice, immunisations and to ensure families and children and young people get the right care, right when they need it."
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