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Manx Care nurses reject 4% pay offer
Manx Care nurses reject latest offer from employer.
Updated: 3 May 2025 -
Manx Care nursing staff consulted over new pay offer
Nurses on the island offered a 4% rise for 2024/25.
Updated: 15 April 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing confirms new General Secretary and Chief Executive
Professor Nicola Ranger said: “There is an opportunity right now, not just for renewal but to make huge progress and strides forward for nursing and the people we care for. New leadership in Westminster, the regulator and senior parts of the NHS as well as here at the College gives fresh energy and ...
Updated: 7 March 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the King's Speech
Responding to the King’s Speech, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Nursing staff are expecting a period of renewal for our health and care services and a reset with government – today’s policy programme is a move towards delivering that."
Updated: 17 July 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Nuffield Trust’s analysis showing a decade of missed NHS waiting time targets
Executive Director for RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “A decade of missed targets isn’t just a numbers game – behind every single statistic are anxious patients, desperate to be seen. An honest conversation needs to be had with the public at this general election about what is truly needed to ...
Updated: 19 November 2024 -
A fresh start for nursing
The RCN’s response to the 2024 UK government consultation on nursing pay and careers.
Updated: 8 April 2024 -
‘Tantamount to torture’ - Royal College of Nursing responds to Channel 4’s Dispatches undercover A&E footage
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The footage in Dispatches should shock us all, but sadly it has become commonplace across NHS hospitals. Patients can wait for days in corridors and chairs – this is tantamount to torture and a national emergency for p...
Updated: 22 November 2024 -
Productivity cannot be boosted without investment in staff – Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Providers’ ‘Achieving value for money’ report
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “This report highlights just how hard NHS staff are working to deliver for patients, but also the terrible levels of burnout they face. It is right to celebrate the innovation taking place in our health service, but we ...
Updated: 17 November 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the new Mental Health Bill being introduced in Parliament
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: “Modernising the Mental Health Act is welcome, but these long overdue reforms won’t be successful unless we address the crisis in the workforce. A third of all nursing vacancies are in mental health services, meaning vulnerable people are routinely denie...
Updated: 6 April 2025 -
No NHS modernisation without social care investment, Royal College of Nursing says
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said “Overstretched staff working in social care have been sounding the alarm for years, but successive governments have failed to listen."
Updated: 6 April 2025
