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Negotiate on NHS pay through summer, nursing leader asks next PM
The only way to avoid a six-month delay to this year’s NHS nurse pay uplift is to hold negotiations in the weeks after the election, the RCN leader has said at the union’s annual conference. Professor Nicola Ranger, Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, made the call in her keynote speech at the RCN Congress in Newport, Wales, as she launched the College’s General Election manifesto.
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Nursing union declares ‘national emergency’ over corridor care crisis
Patients are being left without access to oxygen, enduring intimate examinations, and even dying in hospital corridors, it is revealed today, as the nursing union declares a “national emergency” over care delivered in inappropriate crowded areas.
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Corridor care: unsafe, undignified, unacceptable
The impact on patients and staff of providing care in corridors and other inappropriate areas.
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RCN position on the role and scope of practice of the Nursing Associate
RCN position on the role and scope of practice of the Nursing Associate
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RCN position on Mpox infection and the protection of healthcare workers by employers
RCN position on Mpox infection and the protection of healthcare workers by employers
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Celebrating Learning Disability Nurses' Day
To celebrate Learning Disability Nursing Day, we asked RCN London Board Chair Jim Blair about his career in learning disability nursing.
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RCN Congress Highlights Crumbling NHS Estates
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress today addressed the urgent issue of inadequate maintenance of NHS estate infrastructure affecting patient care in the UK.
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NHS Long Term Workforce Plan will be 10,000 new nurses behind target by 2025
Declining numbers starting nursing degree courses in England and university course closures creates ‘irretrievable downward spiral’ in workforce planning, RCN warns.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrat proposals for social care
Responding to the Liberal Democrat plan for free personal care to end the hospital crisis and help people stay in their own homes, Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: "With over a hundred thousand care worker vacancies across the sector, any policy to improve personal care requires an equally ambitious, fully-funded long-term workforce plan."
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New RCN analysis reveals devastating collapse in learning disability nursing workforce
New analysis from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released today reveals a huge collapse in the number of learning disability nurses training to work in England’s health and care services – with the regional picture revealing large swathes of the country where shockingly few learning disability nurses will enter the workforce in the years to come.
