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January is Love Your Liver awareness month
Tara Rees, lead nurse practitioner for the hepatology service at Cardiff and Vale University Health Board and RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2023, explains why better understanding of our liver and taking care of it is so important.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the CQC’s urgent and emergency care survey 2022
Responding to the Care Quality Commission's urgent and emergency care survey 2022, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The Care Quality Commission report lays bare the stark pressures that nurses working in A&E and urgent care departments face every day of the year."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England Workforce and Sickness absence data
Responding to the latest NHS England Workforce and Sickness absence data, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Today's figures show rates of sickness amongst nursing staff remain stubbornly high and are well above pre-pandemic levels. Although the overall sickness rate has trended down slightly since December 2022, there are still far too many days lost due to nursing staff being off sick.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent
Responding to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent, RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Nicola Ranger, said: “Today marks a backwards step in the way we treat those fleeing persecution. This law will undermine people’s fundamental right, which are enshrined in international law, and have a catastrophic impact on their health and wellbeing."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health Foundation report projecting 2.5m more people in England will be living with major illness by 2040
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This report should act as a wake-up call to a government that has failed to plan properly, and left health and care services without the funding desperately needed."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to fall in nursing courses acceptance rate
RCN Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: “The UK Government has stumbled at the first hurdle of their NHS Workforce Plan, with 12% fewer people expected to take up nursing courses this year in England. These numbers are not just a sad story for today, but a story for years to come of how the ministers baked future nursing shortages into the NHS."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the minimum service level consultation
RCN Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The RCN has always been responsible in taking safe strike action, with concerns for patient safety at its core. However nursing staff will tell you there are not safe staffing levels on non-strike days - and they are sometimes unable to provide the level of service and care patients need."
