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Safety, Equity and Expertise: A UK review of learning disability nursing
The Royal College of Nursing undertook this UK-wide review to assess the current state of learning disability nursing, understand the risks facing the profession, and identify what needs to change to protect and strengthen its contribution. The review sets out a series of high level recommendations ...
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year
RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
Regional Board
Find out about the RCN South West regional board
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2026 award winners
RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2025 award winners
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
Regional Board
Find out about the RCN Northern regional board.
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
National safety investigator finds corridor care a year-round issue, as RCN says system resigned to managed decline
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: "This is the clearest sign of the flawed thinking within a system that is resigned to managed decline. The reality is that there is no safe level of corridor care, or level of staffing that can make it so."
Updated: 19 June 2026 -
Royal College of Nursing thanks healthcare workers and other first responders to the Bedford train crash
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Our thoughts and wishes are with all of those affected by this tragic incident, particularly with the family, friends and colleagues of the driver who lost his life"
Updated: 20 June 2026 -
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Championing nurses, transforming care: teaching in Sri Lanka
Educating nurses in Colombo, Sally and Elsa expected to share their expertise. What they didn’t expect was a profound exchange of knowledge
Updated: 21 June 2026 -
Reflecting on 2025 and looking ahead
As 2025 comes to a close, Sarah Dodsworth, Regional Director for RCN Northern and Yorkshire & the Humber Regions, reflects on an extraordinary year and shares what’s next.
Updated: 21 June 2026 -
From the Archives: Are nursing textbooks useful or wise?
This blog series will delve into the oldest of the RCN’s historical book collection, exploring the ways in which nursing was taught in the past. Herbert E Cuff’s 1896 ‘Lectures on Medicine to Nurses’ is one such example.
Updated: 21 June 2026
