RCN Council elections: nominations for all seats open

We’re looking for our next RCN Council, President and Deputy President. Could it be you?

Budget 'serious missed opportunity' to tackle nursing crisis with NHS just a ‘footnote’, says Royal College of Nursing

RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The chancellor pledged to protect the NHS, yet it was just a footnote in today’s Budget. We desperately needed new funding to boost staffing levels and provide hope to patients, especially as we enter what could be a devastating winter. Simply declaring that there will be ‘more nurses’ won’t make it so, especially without the funding or plan to make it a reality."

Royal College of Nursing responds to plans to cut NHS quangos

RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “For these proposed changes to be effective government must take ownership of the real issue, the staffing crisis on our wards, and not just shuffle people into new roles. Protecting patients has to be the priority and not just a drive for efficiency."

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Independent Sector

Advice and guidance for nurses and healthcare workers who work in the independent sector or are thinking about moving to the independent sector.

Student Senior HCA and now Forum Committee Member

New to the RCN Diabetes Forum Committee, student Nurse, senior healthcare assistant, and mum on a round-the-clock mission, Helena talks about her experiences of joining the committee.

It's time to do something that I really want to do

Josh Parker-Walsh, the newly-elected West Midlands representative on our UK Students Committee, recalls the experiences that have led him into nursing and inspired him to become a champion of the student voice.

Leadership is a mindset, not a title: My journey at the Student Leadership Academy

From conquering presentation nerves to embracing her inner leader: Stephanie Todd, third year student in Adult Nursing at Swansea University, reflects on her experience of the Student Leadership Academy

Royal College of Nursing responds to plans for a new early warning system for NHS patient safety

RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “The guaranteed way to improve care is to raise staffing levels. In the NHS today, one nurse can be left caring for 10, 15 or more patients at a time. The situation is drastically unsafe."

Can GPNs stop leg ulcers in their tracks? Absolutely - my role as a PCN TVN

There has much talk since the publication of the Burden of Wounds research back in 2015 about what needs to be improved and how within wound care. Key stakeholders have worked tirelessly over the last 5 years to develop protocols, guidance, best practice statements and capability frameworks for staff providing wound care at every level and this Blog will highlight some simple but key areas where my role has supported GPNs within my PCN to effectively treat and prevent lower limb ulceration.