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Meeting the Health Needs of Children and Young People in Educational and Community Settings
This publication aims to provide information and professional guidance to health care professionals employed in a wide range of professional roles that provide or are responsible for the implementation of physical health needs delivery and training in nurseries, schools, and any other community setting. This is a revision and subsequent replacement of the original document published in 2018.
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NHS nursing staff vote to reject government pay award for current year
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “We are witnessing a fundamental shift in the determination of nursing staff to stand up for themselves, their patients and the NHS they believe in."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest UCAS figures showing a further fall in the acceptances onto nursing degree courses
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: “The continuing collapse in the number of people accepted onto nursing courses should act as a warning sign to government of the urgent need to act. Ignoring this now would be an act of abandonment at a time of crisis."
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Managing the Disposal of Pregnancy Remains
This updated publication provides clear guidance for all health care professionals, to ensure they have in place robust systems and processes for the safe and appropriate disposal of pregnancy remains, where the pregnancy has ended before the 24th week of gestation. This includes following an ectopic pregnancy, early intrauterine fetal death, miscarriage, or a medically or surgically induced termination of pregnancy.
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Cervical Screening for Physically Disabled Women and Autistic Women
This clinical guidance provides resources for registered nurses, midwives and nursing associates who are responsible for providing cervical screening in any setting. The main intention is to encourage and facilitate the uptake of cervical screening for women and those with a cervix who have a physical disability and/or are autistic.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to publication of 2025/26 NHS Pay Review Body Remit letter
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "The same way of working produces the same outcome - one that nursing staff have just said was inadequate. The government must show nurses their voices have been heard and that the way to set their pay is always fair."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to publication of UK government’s NHS Pay Review Body evidence
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “The government has today told nursing staff they are worth as little as £2 extra a day, less than the price of a coffee. Nursing is in crisis – there are fewer joining and too many experienced professionals leaving. This is deeply offensive to nursing staff, detrimental to their patients and contradictory to hopes of rebuilding the NHS."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the health secretary’s speech at the Labour Party Conference
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Those working in the NHS recognise the health secretary’s diagnosis and stand ready to help in delivering the change needed to improve care for all patients. It requires investment in the nursing workforce who currently do not feel valued – the government has an opportunity to show a fresh path at next month’s Budget."
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Tackling nursing crisis crucial to achieving Prime Minister’s plan, says Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “To achieve his plan, the Prime Minister needs to join the dots between hitting NHS targets and solving the crisis in nursing. We deliver the vast majority of care, but our workforce is severely depleted and recruitment is collapsing."
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Nurse shortage leaves NHS ‘woefully unprepared’ for flu crisis flooding wards, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: “The NHS is woefully underprepared for the crisis flooding into its wards this winter. A nursing workforce wracked by widespread vacancies will be doing its best to keep people safe, but the reality is that there are too many patients and too few beds."
