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Nursing Workforce Standards
The RCN’s Nursing Workforce Standards is the first national blueprint for tackling the nursing staff shortage in your workplace and across the UK.
Updated: 12 May 2025 -
A New Dawn For Nursing: halfway health check
This report provides an overview of progress at the halfway point in our 2023-2027 five-year strategy. A New Dawn for Nursing aims to inspire, champion and support the nursing community to deliver the best possible care.
Updated: 1 July 2025 -
The RCN Activism Strategy 2025 - 2027
The RCN’s Activism Strategy, developed by our Activism Academy is grounded in the experiences of our members and addresses their top priorities: safe staffing levels, fair pay, and working conditions. The strategy’s ambitions will help us grow our activist community, to empower members to become inf...
Updated: 2 June 2025 -
EDI Strategy: First year highlights and impact report
The RCN Group's first Equity, Diversity and Inclusion (EDI) Strategy, launched in May 2024, outlines a commitment to embedding equity and inclusion throughout the RCN by challenging discrimination and promoting representation at all levels. Serving as a living document, the strategy sets 5 key prior...
Updated: 12 May 2025 -
Nursing at the helm
This report highlights the essential, strategic impact of nursing staff working in commissioning and oversight bodies in England, to protect against any risk to nursing functions within the context of cost-saving measures and reforms.
Updated: 22 August 2025 -
Menopause: RCN guidance
Menopause impacts on most peoples’ lives, men and women, and it is important that all nursing teams have a good understanding of how different menopause can be for individuals, and their families. This updated publication aims to support best evidence-based practice for health care professionals to ...
Updated: 29 August 2025 -
RCN Research Strategy
The RCN Research Strategy sets out our vision to champion nursing research, and to empower all of our members to lead, engage with, and apply research findings, that not only benefits patient care and outcomes, but also helps to raise the profile of nursing research for generations to come.
Updated: 7 September 2025 -
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Ethical issues arising from the assisted dying debate
The assisted dying debate is complex, with confusion over definitions and the stance taken by professional bodies. It can also be challenging to make sense of the claims made by those who support changes in the law regarding assisted dying. End of life care is an important aspect of a nurse’s role a...
Updated: 22 November 2023 -
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Focus on asthma 2: air pollution and its effects on children and young people
This article is the second in a series on asthma. The first article identified that the UK is experiencing an ‘epidemic’ of childhood asthma and one of the major culprits is air pollution. This article examines the main causes of air pollution and how they affect the lung health of children from bef...
Updated: 16 November 2023 -
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Biological basis of child health 7: growth, development and the reproductive system
This article is the seventh in a series on the biological basis of child health. It describes early developmental milestones, stages of growth, puberty and the development of the reproductive system. It also outlines the methods used to assess growth and development, and describes conditions that af...
Updated: 16 September 2024
