News
All the latest on current nursing issues, including employment matters, health and safety in the workplace, public health policy and clinical skills, as well as updates on the work of the RCN.
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6 Jun 2025
Nursing workforce investment needed to tackle emergency care
The RCN demands more detail on how the staff needed to make new urgent and emergency care plans work will be supported
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5 Jun 2025
GP mental health nurse is RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2025
A senior mental health nurse has won the award for empowering patients in managing their mental health and transforming access to emotional support
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3 Jun 2025
New NHS nursing profiles: ‘Staff need access to timely job evaluations’
We’ve ensured members' voices were considered in changes to the profiles, to support fairer pay and career progression
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2 Jun 2025
RCN Activism Strategy will support members to effect change in nursing
Details of our new plan to grow our activist community, to empower members to be influential and to show how action results in real change
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29 May 2025
Your England and Wales NHS pay awards are here
Is this increase enough? Get ready to have your say and check your details are up to date
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23 May 2025
Pay Award for HSC staff in Northern Ireland signed off by Minister
The Health Minister, Mike Nesbitt, has announced that he has signed off on a pay award in line with the Pay Review Body (PRB) recommendation of a 3.6% pay rise for those employed under Agenda for Change terms and conditions for 2025-26.
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22 May 2025
RCN Wales responds to Welsh Government's NHS pay award for 2025/26
NHS Wales staff on Agenda for Change contracts will receive a 3.6% pay increase backdated to 1 April 2025.
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21 May 2025
Nursing Workforce Standards update: key changes to protect staff further
Support for senior nurses when they speak out, staffing uplift figures and planning for pandemics are among the latest changes
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15 May 2025
An ‘explosion’ in nurse lecturer cuts risks nursing jobs and patient safety
We’re calling for urgent government action to protect nursing courses now
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15 May 2025
RCN members in Scotland vote to accept NHS pay offer
RCN members in Scotland have spoken on pay and accepted offers for the next two years.
