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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England waiting list data
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: “More than a year since the pledge was made to cut waiting lists, millions of patients are still suffering in pain and distress. Whichever way you count the numbers, the prime minister’s promise is colliding with the reality of an understaffed and under-resourced NHS. This is far from ‘mission accomplished."
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Nursing union slams prime minister’s 'misleading and inaccurate' comments on nursing pay
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: "Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members rejected the government’s pay offer last year, an offer that was the lowest in the public sector. We remain in a formal trade dispute over pay. Our profession will be greatly angered hearing your comments which sought to take credit for a pay offer that was not accepted."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Unison survey showing widespread sexual harassment of NHS staff
RCN Chief Nurse Professor Nicola Ranger said: “These figures paint an incredibly disturbing picture. Nursing staff should be able to come to work and expect the NHS to be a safe place - and not face the risk of assault, harassment, or abuse."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to University of Bath report on NHS staff retention
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England said: “This report tells the story of an NHS workforce at the end of its tether. Devastating nursing shortages are leaving staff burnt out and demoralised, unable to provide the level of care they want to. When nurses are the least likely of all NHS staff to recommend a career in the health service, ministers should sit up and listen."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Charities Together survey findings
Responding to the NHS Charities Together finding that more than three in four NHS workers have experienced mental health issues, RCN Head of Nursing Practice and Professional Lead for Mental Health Stephen Jones said: “These findings highlight just how demoralised and burnt out NHS workers really are. Nursing staff go to work to care for their patients but are being emotionally and physically pushed to the edge."
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NHS sickness data shows average nurse took entire week off sick last year due to stress-related illness
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: “Dangerous stress levels have become normalised inside an NHS which is unable to cope with demand. Chronic workforce shortages are putting nurses under unbearable pressure, unable to deliver the high-quality care they were trained to."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to prime minister's 'sicknote culture' speech
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Nursing staff are the largest single workforce in health and care, but they themselves are suffering from increasingly poor long-term health. The prime minister’s overtures about ‘sicknote culture’ will be deeply offensive to a profession hit hard by long COVID and a spiralling mental health crisis. Issues of population health are not ones that a government can simply instruct away."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Supreme Court ruling that UK trade union law breaches the ECHR
RCN Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “Today’s ruling is welcome news for workers as the Supreme Court recognised that our domestic legislation is not compatible with article 11 of the ECHR given the lack of protection for detriment short of dismissal in respect of those taking part in organising industrial action."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the retirement of England’s Chief Nursing Officer
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: "Ruth has been the strongest ambassador for nursing over five very difficult years for our profession. We have worked extremely closely in recent years and her personal support and wise counsel has been invaluable."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrats figures showing that elderly patients waiting over five days on hospital trolleys in A&E
Professor Nicola Ranger, RCN Chief Nursing Officer and Deputy Chief Executive, said: “Behind these figures are people’s parents and grandparents, some of society’s most vulnerable who we’d expect to be treated with the upmost dignity. The bleak reality is that those who should be given the greatest care are deteriorating whilst left on chairs and trolleys in corridors, cupboards and side rooms for hours on end."
