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NHS England data shows hospitals ‘hurtling towards’ corridor care crisis this winter, RCN says
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: “The NHS appears to be hurtling towards another corridor care crisis this winter. Tens of thousands more people are heading to A&E, while the number of people waiting more than 12 hours is up by more than 20% on the same point last year. Wit...
Updated: 10 March 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS performance figures
Responding to the latest NHS performance figures, RCN Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “Horrendous waits are becoming normalised in a system that cannot cope with demand. Whilst the NHS continues to battle chronic nursing workforce shortages, the number of those waiting the longest has gr...
Updated: 12 August 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the National Audit Office report on NHS England’s modelling for the Long Term Workforce Plan
RCN Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “This NAO report may not be damning, but this credible intervention asks the government and NHS to ‘revisit’ their ill-founded optimism. Since the workforce plan was published less than a year ago, student nurse numbers have already dropped twice – tak...
Updated: 20 August 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to The King's Fund's analysis - 'Illustrating the relationship between poverty and NHS services'
RCN Deputy Chief Nurse, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: “Every day, nursing staff see the impact poverty has on people’s health. But despite working in every possible setting – from people’s homes to social care and emergency departments – they are often powerless to stop the root causes of poverty that lea...
Updated: 16 August 2024 -
Ministers should listen to NHS staff, not create false divisions, says RCN
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Nursing staff agree with NHS leaders that Equality, Diversity and Inclusion is vital to improving both the culture of the NHS and patient care. Ministers on a culture war crusade have no business lecturing NHS staff on what thei...
Updated: 12 August 2024 -
Crisis in nursing unresolved after today's Budget, Royal College of Nursing says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The Chancellor’s task was difficult, but the crisis in nursing remains unresolved after today’s Budget. Thousands of staff continue to leave the profession, whilst new nurse numbers have collapsed in every English region. We a...
Updated: 30 March 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Workforce Race Equality Standard and Workforce Disability Equality Standard reports
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Discrimination in the NHS is systemic - and it’s clear the health service still has a long way to go in overcoming the prejudices that both patients and staff face. It’s promising to see some progress – including an increase in ...
Updated: 16 August 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Institute for Fiscal Studies report 'Recent trends in public sector pay'
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “This report should be essential reading for government ministers. With repeated below-inflation pay awards, and the lowest pay deal in the entire public sector last year, ministers exposed nursing staff to a brutal cost of living...
Updated: 24 August 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Public Accounts Committee report ‘Reforming adult social care in England’
RCN Transformational Lead for the Independent Health and Social Care Sector Claire Sutton said: “Social care is gripped by devastating workforce shortages whilst staff working in the sector take home up to a third less pay than their colleagues in the NHS. As demand for social care services continue...
Updated: 18 August 2024 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Nuffield Trust report on learning disability
RCN Professional Lead in Learning Disabilities Nursing Jonathan Beebee said: “It is a damning indictment of the way health inequalities have been allowed to flourish that those with learning disabilities are dying much sooner and from preventable causes."
Updated: 11 August 2024
