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12 May 2025

Gloucestershire nurse receives RCN Award of Merit

Matthew Stewart from Gloucestershire has been given a prestigious Award of Merit at the Royal College of Nursing’s annual Congress in Liverpool.

22 Mar 2024

RCN wins pay claim for NHS community nursing staff in Wiltshire

Wiltshire Health and Care LLP has now confirmed that it will pay its staff, in line with other NHS staff, the non-consolidated element of the 2023 pay award.

RCN members from Somerset NHS Foundation Trust hand their chief executive a collective car parking protest letter on 27 February (group with RCN flags and tabards)

29 Feb 2024

RCN members lead action for change to access for work across Somerset NHS Foundation Trust

RCN members met with Chief Executive of Somerset NHS Foundation Trust Peter Lewis on Tuesday 27 February to give him a letter, signed by more than 2000 trust staff and local people, asking for improvements to parking and transport, particularly to the 2 main acute trust sites in Taunton and Yeovil.

NHS trusts in the South West region spend £389 MILLION on agency. That could employe 3,754 full time equivalent nurses. INVEST IN NURING for the long term. Fair Pay for Nursing branded image in yellow and navy. Female nurse with a headscarf in the centre behind three text boxes containing the figures. Blonde nurse with glasses in scrubs on the right hand side. Hospital setting.

6 Dec 2023

NHS spend millions on temporary nursing staff in failure to close recruitment gap in the South West

The NHS in the South West is being propped up by temporary agency nursing staff costing the NHS millions of pounds every year while waiting lists continue to hit record levels, new analysis by the Royal College of Nursing reveals.