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Productivity cannot be boosted without investment in staff – Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Providers’ ‘Achieving value for money’ report
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “This report highlights just how hard NHS staff are working to deliver for patients, but also the terrible levels of burnout they face. It is right to celebrate the innovation taking place in our health service, but we cannot lose sight of staff shortages, which are the fundamental problem holding service productivity back."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Liberal Democrat's 2024 General Election manifesto
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Improving access to outside hospital services is the right commitment, but the sums offered fall far short. Any meaningful expansion will require more than the £8bn extra promised each year. Overstretched nursing staff need reassuring that they are not being asked to do even more with less."
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Healthy leadership in nursing during COVID-19
The RCN Foundation is funding Queen Margaret University research into nurses’ and midwives’ experience of leadership during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Psychological first aid for care home nurses
Helping care home nurses cope with the trauma of COVID-19.
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Guidance for people with learning disabilities
The RCN Foundation, NHS England and the charity Beyond Words developed illustrated resources about the pandemic designed to meet the needs of people with learning disabilities.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the new Mental Health Bill being introduced in Parliament
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: “Modernising the Mental Health Act is welcome, but these long overdue reforms won’t be successful unless we address the crisis in the workforce. A third of all nursing vacancies are in mental health services, meaning vulnerable people are routinely denied access to timely and appropriate care."
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Ways we can help during COVID-19
Ways we can help nurses, midwives and nursing support workers during this difficult and unprecedented time.
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No NHS modernisation without social care investment, Royal College of Nursing says
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said “Overstretched staff working in social care have been sounding the alarm for years, but successive governments have failed to listen."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Home Office measures to tackle exploitation of migrant care workers
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Rogue employers who deny migrant care workers their basic employment rights should face tougher sanctions, and today’s measures are a step in the right direction."
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Tuition fee rise will 'make a bad situation worse', says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “As student nurse numbers collapse in every English region, ministers decide to make a bad situation worse. Today’s announcement will discourage more people from joining the profession. That means fewer highly-skilled staff on wards and in communities. That is bad news for patient care and undermines the government’s very own NHS reforms."