News
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17 Mar 2025
Letter to Black Country MPs on pay cuts imposed on NHS hospital and community health service staff
The RCN has written to MPs whose constituents are served by the NHS trusts in the Black Country Provider Collaborative.
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6 Mar 2025
RCN condemns 'heartless' pay cut for Black Country nurses going the extra mile
Nursing staff feel insulted and exploited by moves by NHS trusts in the Black Country to cut their pay for the hours they work over and above their working week.
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17 Apr 2024
Where a good care experience is child's play
Have you ever heard of a nursing home with its very own playgroup? Let us introduce it to you.
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13 Nov 2023
Coventry student wins prestigious UK nursing award for helping young people leaving mental health units
A student has won one of nursing’s top accolades for supporting young people discharged from mental health units.
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29 Apr 2020
New regional director takes up post
Lindsay Meeks becomes the RCN's regional director for the West Midlands on 1 May.
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28 Feb 2020
RCN urges West Midlands MPs to back urgent action to fix nurse shortage
The RCN is urging MPs across the West Midlands to support ‘urgent and meaningful measures’ to tackle a critical shortage of nurses.
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28 Nov 2019
Nurse shortage now a crisis, says RCN
The shortage of nurses in the Midlands is growing and has been declared as a full-blown crisis by the RCN.
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8 Jul 2019
Treating sickness the healthy way
With the newly-published interim NHS People Plan promising to prioritise the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and promote compassion in how they are managed, a health trust in the West Midlands has already shown how it is realising this vision.
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11 Jun 2019
Children’s hospice closure plan ‘sad’
Plans by charity Acorns to close its children’s hospice in Walsall due to a shortfall in funding have been described as ‘sad’ by the RCN.
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15 Feb 2019
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