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A new dawn for nursing: 2023-2027

Our five-year strategy aims to inspire, champion and support the nursing community to deliver the best possible care.

Branches

South East branches hold regular meeting and events so get in touch and find out more.

How we work

As both a trade union and a professional body, we work to support our members in a wide variety of ways.

Focus on: trauma and orthopaedic journals

Looking to build on insights from the RCN Trauma and Orthopaedic Nursing Conference? Explore these journals to support your practice and research, and take your learning further.

BRIEFING: RCN Employment Survey 2025: Scotland summary

The RCN Employment Survey, which runs every two years, is a significant barometer of how our members feel in their jobs. Wherever they work – NHS or the independent health and social care sectors – the survey gives our members the opportunity to tell us what it is really like in nursing at the moment. This briefing provides a summary of the key findings from members in Scotland.

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

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 includes a list of abbreviations, a glossary and an easy to access list of Skills for Health standards.

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 finding it a challenge to get both approval to take paid time for CPD and the funding needed to pay for it. This toolkit, aimed at employers whatever the setting, gives the background, evidence and rationale for the provision of contractual, fully funded CPD to ensure the delivery of safe and effective care, and supports the accompanying CPD toolkit in action which is aimed at RCN staff and reps (012 215).