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Making Sense of Women’s Health
This updated publication is designed for the non-specialist nurse. It highlights conditions that women can experience, the likely outcomes and how to access appropriate resources or treatment.
Updated: 17 March 2025 -
Continuing learning and development for RCN Reps
Continuing learning and development for RCN representatives (CL&D for reps) is a programme of ongoing learning that supports all RCN reps to maintain, develop and enhance their knowledge and skills. This framework was developed collaboratively by reps and staff across the UK, to keep our learning op...
Updated: 16 March 2025 -
Fertility Preservation
This publication provides information for nurses who are supporting and caring for those beginning treatment for potentially life-limiting diseases and where the treatment may adversely affect their ability to have children in the future. This updated guidance also encompasses those who may wish, fo...
Updated: 2 March 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Confederation survey finding that health leaders plan staff cuts amid ‘substantial’ saving targets
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: "The millions that are stuck on waiting lists are proof that balancing the books on the backs of patients is a road to nowhere. Cuts to services harm patient outcomes and cost the NHS more in the long run."
Updated: 29 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Labour Party plans to clear the NHS backlog
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “For Labour's promised historic expansion of the NHS workforce, we need more detail. With thousands of staff leaving the health service each year and nursing applications plummeting, only action to raise pay and abolish tuition fees will rev...
Updated: 27 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to DHSC announcement on new pilot scheme to expand patient choice
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Patients deserve choice, but wherever they go they will find vacant nursing posts and overstretched services - with nursing staff under relentless pressure and chronic shortages across every setting."
Updated: 13 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Labour Party's six pledges for the general election
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Central to this NHS pledge has to be a commitment to more nurses and better conditions for them. A deliverable plan on waiting lists and round-the-clock services relies on enough staff, who feel valued and able to give high-quali...
Updated: 14 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to 76% fall in visa applications from overseas health and care workers
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Blocking care workers and their families from coming to the UK is detrimental to the care of those in need and cruel to the people who can provide it."
Updated: 20 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to call to redesign paediatric wards to help youngsters with mental health problems
RCN UK Head of Nursing Practice, Stephen Jones, said: "This report highlights the distressing daily reality of an NHS in crisis."
Updated: 21 October 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Providers warning that scarce NHS funds are being diverted due to delays to the UK Government's 40 new hospitals programme
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Spending on the health service has already risen more slowly than promised and many parts of the NHS are struggling. Political parties must realise that investment in both nursing staff and the NHS are the electorate’s top priority.”
Updated: 13 October 2024
