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Publications

RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.



  • 14 Jun 2017

    Retired members: Stay connected

    Publication Code : 006166

    Retired members can still benefit from RCN membership, including membership of the National Pensioners Convention Network.

  • 16 May 2017

    Safe Staffing Postcard

    Publication Code : 006184

    Postcard for safe staffing survey. What were staffing levels like the last time you were at work?

  • 12 May 2017

    Safe and Effective Staffing: the Real Picture

    Publication Code : 006195

    This report provides an important contribution to the conversation on nurse staffing levels and to patient safety in health care. It contains two new datasets: assessments by Directors of Nursing of the state of the UK’s health systems and its workforce, and data on nurse staff vacancies in Trusts in England specifically.

  • 27 Apr 2017

    RCN Respect Charter

    Publication Code : 006214

    The RCN Respect Charter outlines how all RCN stakeholders including staff, members and customers, regardless of their role, must approach working with each other at all times.

  • 25 Apr 2017

    Nursing through time

    Publication Code : 005736

    Nursing through time is a series of 12 cards which chart developments in nursing from the last 150 years, using key facts and historical images, many taken from the RCN archives.

  • 24 Apr 2017

    RCN Council’s report to members on Congress 2016

    Publication Code : 006022

    This report details the wide range of work, across all four countries of the UK, which hastaken place as a result of the debates in Glasgow last year.

  • 13 Apr 2017

    Annual Report 2016

    Publication Code : 005871

    Combined RCN Group annual report and consolidated financial accounts for year ended 31 December 2016.

  • 18 Nov 2016

    Valuing older workers

    Publication Code : 005696

    A 10 step action plan for working in partnership to create a learning culture that supports staff who work later in life

  • 21 Oct 2016

    The UK nursing labour market review 2016

    Publication Code : 005779

    This is the 2016 report providing a review of the UK nursing labour market, looking at recent data and trends for nursing staff working in the health sector across the UK, drawing out differences, similarities and challenges across the four UK countries.

  • 30 Sep 2016

    Agency nursing under the microscope

    Publication Code : 005801

    The RCN and HCL Nursing explore the dependence on agency nursing in the UK and the view of agency nurses themselves.