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POLICY: NHS Delivery - a new national delivery organisation to lead transformation across our health and social care system
RCN Scotland response to the Scottish Government consultation on NHS Delivery - a new national delivery organisation to lead transformation across our health and social care system
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Catheter Care
Continence is one of the fundamentals of nursing care and maintaining continence can significantly increase a patient’s quality of life. This update reflects NMC guidance around the standards that nurses must maintain throughout their careers to keep their knowledge and skills up to date, and includ...
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
Continuing Professional Development (CPD) Toolkit in Action - Delivering safe and effective care:
Our members continually raise concerns about the challenges they encounter accessing continuous professional development (CPD) and lifelong learning opportunities. As the workforce crisis has grown across the UK, a lack of employer support and increasing staffing pressures have left nursing staff fi...
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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The power of plants
Good for us, great for patients – here’s why houseplants benefit everyone, and how one nurse brought some green goodness into her hospital.
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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Calling time on overworking
Working extra time at the end of each shift can have a detrimental effect on wellbeing. Registered nurse Zoe wants nursing staff to work together to put a stop to working over shift
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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Menopause passport: starting conversations at work
RCN health and safety rep Wendy is driving forward an initiative to get women experiencing menopause symptoms the workplace support they need.
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
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We're demanding pay parity for nursing staff in Northern Ireland
Why nursing staff had no choice but to return to picket lines in 2024
Updated: 5 December 2025 -
Focus on: Women's Health Journals
Excited for the RCN Women’s Health Conference? Whether you’re joining in London or following from afar, we’ve selected top open-access, peer-reviewed journals for you.
Updated: 6 December 2025 -
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Pat Cullen: ‘Your determination has been an inspiration’
After an historic year leading the world’s largest nursing union, RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen addressed members at our annual conference, sharing her reflections on the courage of staff to take strike action and her commitment to campaign for safe nurse staffing ratios
Updated: 6 December 2025 -
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Scenes from the pandemic: 'I don't want people to forget what the NHS went through'
Retired nurse and artist Karen felt compelled to document what she saw during the pandemic.
Updated: 6 December 2025
