Press Releases
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04/02/2026
Press Release
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
Press Release
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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04/02/2026
Press Response
NMC Report Highlights Pay and Development Pressures Facing Welsh Nurses
Professor Sandy Harding, RCN Wales Associate Director of Nursing, Policy and Professional Development responds to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Spotlight on Nursing and Midwifery 2025 report.
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29/01/2026
Press Release
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
Press Release
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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28/01/2026
Press Release
Children and young people failed by lack of investment in mental health nursing is a 'tragedy', says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Head of Nursing, Stephen Jones, said: “It is a tragedy that so many children and young people are being failed in this way. We know that early intervention is the best route to protect mental health and yet so many are left waiting for years."
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22/01/2026
Press Release
Investing in nursing the key to improving children’s health outcomes, says RCN in response to latest Health and Social Care Committee report
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: “Health visitors, school nurses and other vital staff in our communities are critical for giving babies, children and young people the best start in life. Yet these specialist, safety-critical nurses have seen their workforce numbers collapse over the last decade."
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21/01/2026
Press Release
Elderly being cared for in corridors 'source of national shame', says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “These devastating findings mirror the testimony of nursing staff about the lack of dignity afforded to the elderly. No one, let alone those at their most vulnerable, should be forced to receive treatment in corridors and other inappropriate spaces. It is unsafe, utterly demeaning and should be a source of national shame."
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15/01/2026
Press Release
Nursing staff risk losing all hope over corridor care akin to “torture”, as public tell government to end NHS crisis
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This new testimony from nursing staff reveals once again the devastating human consequences of corridor care, with patients forced to endure conditions which have no place in our NHS. The fact remains that there can be no safe, dignified care delivered in a corridor, store room or dining room, but that has become the norm."
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15/01/2026
Press Release
One year on from landmark corridor care report, RCN warns patients and staff in Wales are still being failed
RCN Wales is warning that patients and nursing staff in Wales continue to be put at risk by this dangerous practice.
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