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Holdco Annual Report 2022
The RCN Holdco Limited Annual Report and Financial Statements for 2022.
Updated: 13 November 2023 -
Three steps to positive practice
This document was developed by a multidisciplinary group based in Northern Ireland, involving the Royal College of Nursing, the Royal College of Occupational Therapists, the Royal College of Psychiatrists and the British Association of Social Work Northern Ireland. It is designed to assist health an...
Updated: 10 September 2025 -
Raising and Escalating Concerns
This resource, aimed at NHS and independent sector nursing staff and student nurses, will support you to raise concerns wherever you work. It includes a decision making flowchart to help staff and students decide whether to raise a concern and when to escalate a concern.
Updated: 31 October 2023 -
RCN Foundation Annual Report 2022
The RCN Foundation Group Annual Report and Financial Statements 1 January to 31 December 2022.
Updated: 13 November 2023 -
RCN Industrial Action Handbook
This updated RCN Industrial Action Handbook is a comprehensive guide. It explains the different types of action members can take and provides examples of how to organise action in the workplace.
Updated: 6 June 2023 -
Ensuring high quality representation for members: A statement of expectations for RCN Reps
This framework is designed to give you the best support and resources available to help you confidentially carry out your role.
Updated: 20 November 2023 -
Industrial Action by Other Unions: advice for RCN members
This publication outlines what approach RCN members should take relating to their own contract of employment, while ensuring they do not undermine the lawful industrial action taken by other trade union colleagues.
Updated: 22 July 2025 -
Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Consensus Statement
This publication details further work following the impact assessment and subsequent report of the RCN’s Clinical Nurse Specialists in Early Pregnancy Care Standards in 2021. To address recommendations from that report, the project team worked with key stakeholders to clarify the way forward, ensuri...
Updated: 18 June 2023 -
Valuing Nursing in the UK
Despite public support for the nursing profession, governments across the UK are failing to value and support nursing staff. Nursing staff feel undervalued and unsafe, causing an alarming number to leave the profession altogether. This report presents a range of factors which impact retention, as we...
Updated: 15 February 2023 -
Impact of Staffing Levels on Safe and Effective Patient Care
This evidence review was commissioned to support policy influencing and to point RCN staff and members towards the latest evidence on staffing for safe and effective care. A previous evidence review was completed to support the RCN’s Staffing for Safe and Effective Care (2019) report, with this curr...
Updated: 22 February 2023
