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RCN Congress 2024: booking now open with exciting agenda
We’re looking ahead to lively debates on important topics affecting the nursing profession, such as assisted dying, access to controlled drugs in care homes and regulating the nursing support workforce.
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Safe nurse staffing law in Wales: improvements made to patient care, but stricter guidance is needed
We’ve launched our latest report on the impact of the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016 on health care delivery.
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General practice nursing staff in England should receive pay increase
The RCN is demanding all GP practice employers provide their staff with the increase in pay now funding has been confirmed.
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Health Secretary’s stance on diversity roles is ‘playing politics’, RCN says
Steve Barclay’s instruction to NHS managers to stop recruiting to diversity and inclusion roles creates ‘false division’, threatens staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
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Mental health parity: 'It feels like a losing battle'
Nursing staff raise alarm over mental health care inequality, saying it’s got worse since the pandemic and governments have failed to address the issue.
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Sexual harassment in health care: ‘We can’t have slogans, we’ve got to have action’
RCN tells MPs how sexual misconduct affects nursing staff in the NHS workforce, during evidence session in Parliament.
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Israel and Gaza conflict: all parties must respect and protect access to health care
The RCN stands with other global health organisations to condemn every attack on health care workers and their patients
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Urgent investment in the nursing workforce needed as waiting lists look set to soar
Patients will only get the treatment they deserve when there are enough nursing staff to care for them, the RCN says.
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‘Divisive’ rise in costs for overseas nursing staff will deepen NHS staffing crisis
We’ve written to the Home Secretary to condemn the planned increase in costs for overseas health workers and nursing students coming to the UK.
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Adult social care: workforce plans encouraging, but government investment crucial
As the voice of nursing, we expect to influence the development of a new social care workforce plan.
