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Annual General Meeting 2024: Questions and responses
This document includes questions asked at the Royal College of Nursing’s 2024 Annual General Meeting (AGM), as well as responses provided at the meeting, together with supplementary information where helpful. It also includes responses to questions which were received before, during, and after the AGM, and which were not answered at the meeting itself. Questions are grouped by topic.
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Urgently investigate social care exploitation, nursing leader to tell government ahead of Commons’ debate
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “For years, rogue social care employers and recruitment agencies have exploited migrant care workers with almost total impunity. They have shackled people with eye-watering debt, confiscated passports and threatened deportation. It is heartbreaking and unacceptable."
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Advanced Level Nursing Practice and Care of Pregnant and Postnatal Women
This updated guidance provides principles of good practice to clarify the role of nurses working in advanced nursing practice roles when providing care for pregnant and postnatal women.
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RCN responds to the Skills for Care state of the adult social care sector and workforce report
Claire Sutton, RCN Transformational Lead, Independent Health and Social Care Sector said: “A fall in social care vacancies masks the harsh reality of a sector which has nowhere near enough staff to meet people’s needs. Registered nurse numbers continue to decline as domestic recruitment collapses, forcing employers to recruit internationally to fill gaps."
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Royal College of Nursing comments ahead of the publication of the Employment Bill
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Without sick pay provision, nursing staff in social care choose between their own health and their much-needed income. The government’s plan to introduce statutory sick pay from day one is a crucial first step. Next, we need commitments to enhance the level of sick pay itself - and make that a right from the very start of employment too."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to CQC’s annual State of Care report
Responding to CQC’s State of Care report, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This broad and damning report supports the view of Ministers that the NHS is broken. Taking responsibility for fixing it will be tough but cannot start soon enough. "
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Without a safety net
The cost-of-living crisis has had devastating consequences for nursing staff up and down the country and is exacerbated by more than a decade of real-terms pay cuts to NHS wages. The NHS is a national service, but its staff could not be more international. Without direct action, we are risking a mass exodus of international nursing staff.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to new analysis which shows significant disparities in waiting times for different patient groups in England’s NHS
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: “If you are Black, a woman, or from a deprived area, you are facing longer waits for treatment and potentially worse health outcomes – that is appalling. Whilst the causes of health inequalities are complex, there can be little doubt that increasing levels of poverty, sustained cuts to public health services and an under-resourced NHS are contributing factors."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to HSSIB report on ‘the delivery of safe and therapeutic care to adults in mental health inpatient settings’
Stephen Jones, UK Head of Nursing Practice at the Royal College of Nursing said: “The long-term failure to invest in mental health nursing is having a direct and deeply worrying impact on those most in need of care."
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NHS England data shows hospitals ‘hurtling towards’ corridor care crisis this winter, RCN says
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: “The NHS appears to be hurtling towards another corridor care crisis this winter. Tens of thousands more people are heading to A&E, while the number of people waiting more than 12 hours is up by more than 20% on the same point last year. Without intervention, the government's next 100 days will be defined by patients crammed into fire escapes, store cupboards and corridors."
