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Baroness Audrey Emerton: a life of leadership and service
RCN Fellow Audrey Emerton, Baroness Emerton of Tunbridge Wells died on 27 February 2026. She was involved in the Royal College of Nursing for over 60 years and her wonderful career impacted nurses and nursing in multiple ways. This short tribute marks her contribution as a nurse leader, but also as ...
Updated: 25 March 2026 -
RCN employment standards mark first anniversary with new member resources
We're urging members working in independent health and social care to know their rights and use the standards to protect themselves at work
Updated: 27 April 2026 -
Urgently investigate social care exploitation, nursing leader to tell government ahead of Commons’ debate
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “For years, rogue social care employers and recruitment agencies have exploited migrant care workers with almost total impunity. They have shackled people with eye-watering debt, confiscated passports and threatened deportatio...
Updated: 17 March 2025 -
RCN letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department
A letter to the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Rt Hon Shabana Mahmood MP, discussing both the issues of discrimination and anti-immigration policies impacting on the nursing workforce.
Updated: 13 November 2025 -
Resolution: Decriminalising abortion
That this meeting of Congress requests that the RCN Council supports the calls for the decriminalisation of abortion across the UK.
Updated: 27 October 2024 -
Resolution: Nursing apprenticeships
That this meeting of RCN Congress calls on RCN Council to lobby the UK Government for changes to improve the use of the apprentice levy to ensure it is fit for purpose for nursing and nursing associate programmes.
Updated: 1 November 2024 -
Letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on retaining the nursing workforce
Letter to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care on retaining the nursing workforce
Updated: 23 December 2021 -
Letter to Black Country MPs on pay cuts imposed on NHS hospital and community health service staff
The RCN has written to MPs whose constituents are served by the NHS trusts in the Black Country Provider Collaborative.
Updated: 16 August 2025 -
Scottish government’s Winter Preparedness Plan must address ‘corridor care’
We’ve called for the Cabinet Secretary for Health and Social Care to directly address the patient safety and dignity concerns associated with corridor care through the Winter Preparedness Plan being presented to Scottish Parliament.
Updated: 22 February 2025 -
RCN position on the health inequalities autistic people face in accessing health and social care services and the potential role of the nursing workforce in addressing these
RCN position on the health inequalities autistic people face in accessing health and social care services and the potential role of the nursing workforce in addressing these
Updated: 23 March 2026
