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How you can get involved and stay informed
Michelle Raddings, Yorkshire & the Humber region IHSC lead nurse looks at the months ahead and how you can get involved and stay informed.
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Seasons Greetings!
Sarah Dodsworth, Regional Director for Northern and Yorkshire & the Humber reflects on 2024 and the year ahead.
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Shifting the culture - why normalising grief in healthcare is important
This blog is about the importance and value of providing a restorative and reflective space for teams to share thoughts and experiences of death and dying. Normalising grief within the context of healthcare may help to improve patient care and reduce burnout.
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Providing the evidence: demonstrating the expertise of nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger reflects on developments impacting the future of the nursing profession and how we are representing our members’ voices to campaign for change.
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Moving Others to Action: How to get the vote out in your workplace
The NHS pay consultation is your moment for your and your colleagues to show the nursing strength and raise our voice, but it only works if members vote in large numbers. Join one of these sessions to build your confidence and skills to help get the vote out in your workplace. We’ll focus on how to have organising conversations that move people to action, how to handle concerns and common myths, and how to support colleagues to take that vital step and vote. If you haven't already, make sure to sign up to be a Voting Volunteer.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to report on barriers to healthcare degree apprenticeships
RCN Executive Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Health leaders have identified apprenticeships as a means of boosting recruitment into nursing, including for those who cannot afford to take on debt and go to university. However, the findings of this report show the route is failing to help close the gap left by a broken tuition fee model, with trusts lacking the funding to keep up with costs, while limited clinical placements leave NHS England unable to meet its own targets."
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No end in sight to the pressures on the wards, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Every day patients are being admitted only to be treated in corridors in unsafe and undignified conditions. This year-round crisis cannot simply be passed over as winter pressures."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to public health grant allocations for 25/26
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “The increase in the public health grant is a step in the right direction for the government’s ambitions to shift towards prevention but short-term funding will not cover for years of cuts, nor help rescue the public health nursing workforce, which has been decimated over the last decade."
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Government should solve corridor care crisis within a year if it acts now, public says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The public and nursing staff can see a tragedy for patients unfolding before their eyes. They know care standards are unacceptable and they want government to act decisively."
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RCN position on termination of pregnancy (induced abortion)
RCN position on termination of pregnancy (induced abortion)
