Press Releases
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27/10/2025
Press Release
Ethnic minority nursing staff report shocking racist abuse at work, as calls to RCN advice line surge by 55%
Responding to the latest findings from the RCN’s Advice Line, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “These racist incidents are absolutely disgusting, and it is a mark of shame that they are rising like this across health and care services. Every single ethnic minority nursing professional deserves to go to work without fear of being abused and employers have a legal duty to ensure workplaces are safe."
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24/10/2025
Press Release
Report sends a stark reminder of challenges facing government health reforms
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This crisis has been years in the making, but ministers cannot waste time in solving it. Only new investment to grow the nursing workforce, particularly in community settings, will ease pressures on hospitals, improve care for patients and ensure the government’s reforms are delivered safely.”
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23/10/2025
Press Release
RCN Raises Alarm over Lack of Jobs for Newly Qualified Nurses (NQN) in Swansea Bay
65 adult nursing students who qualify in March 2026 currently have no jobs to apply for in the health board.
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21/10/2025
Press Release
AI has great potential and must enhance personal nursing care but not replace it, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN UK Head of Nursing Practice Stephen Jones said: “AI has great potential to modernise services, but ministers shouldn’t be completely seduced by it alone. It must enhance personal nursing care, not replace it, and be delivered alongside new investment in growing the nursing workforce.”
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21/10/2025
Press Response
Royal College of Nursing response to Welsh Government announcement on NHS accountability
The Welsh Government has commited to greater transparency and public accountability across the NHS in Wales.
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20/10/2025
Press Release
Without urgent action entire hospitals risk being overwhelmed by corridor care this winter, warns Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis said: “Corridor care is unsafe and undignified for patients and demoralising for the healthcare staff forced to care in these circumstances. It is now more than a year since nursing staff first sounded the alarm on this crisis and the disaster in our hospitals shows little sign of improvement."
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16/10/2025
Press Release
Nuffield Trust report highlights 'devastating consequences' of failure to invest in community nursing
RCN Head of Nursing, Carli Whittaker, said: "Only new and sustained investment can ensure there are enough expert community nurses embedded in every community, and that children and young people get the care they need.”
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15/10/2025
Press Release
High turnover, ageing workforce and decline in skilled staff major concern in social care, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN Head of Independent Health and Social Care Claire Sutton said: “While there has been a small increase in the number of registered nurses working in the sector, high rates of turnover, an ageing workforce, and a decline in skilled staff are major causes for concern."
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09/10/2025
Press Release
‘All signs are pointing to a corridor care disaster this winter and ministers must now take urgent steps to keep patients safe’, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:. "All signs are pointing to a corridor care disaster this winter and ministers must now take urgent steps to keep patients safe."
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02/10/2025
Press Release
Rise in children attending A+E a 'devastating indictment' of healthcare policy, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Overworked and understaffed nursing teams in emergency departments, including paediatric ones, are desperate to provide the best care and struggling to deal with the numbers of child patients arriving at their door."
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