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RCN publications cover a wide range of topics varying from clinical guidance to employment relations issues to advice on bullying. To reproduce RCN publications please complete the copyright request form and we’ll be in touch.



  • 28 Aug 2024

    Annual General Meeting 2024: Questions and responses

    Publication Code : 011 786

    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.

  • 26 Aug 2024

    Without a safety net

    Publication Code : 011 752

    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.

  • 15 Aug 2024

    Join the RCN campaigning booklet

    Publication Code : 011 434

    When you join the RCN, you become part of the UK’s largest nursing community that works together to improve the experiences of our members and the people they care for. Joining the RCN not only gives you a great opportunity to become a campaigner, but the skills you develop will help you in your professional role. This updated booklet details ways of getting more involved and helping shape the nursing profession, whether you have a few minutes or a few hours a month to spare.

  • 14 Aug 2024

    Biologic Disease Modifying Anti-Rheumatic Drugs (DMARDs) and Targeted-Synthetic DMARDs

    Publication Code : 011 509

    The role of bDMARDs and tsDMARDs in the treatment of rheumatological conditions continues to evolve and is an area that has significant implications for all practitioners and patients. This edition has been developed to support practitioners in the safe and effective assessment, screening and management of patients when these drugs are being considered. It provides a best practice framework for rheumatology specialist practitioners and the wider health care team involved in supporting the administration, monitoring and delivery of care to patients in a variety of settings.

  • 31 Jul 2024

    Advanced Level Nursing Practice and Care of Pregnant and Postnatal Women

    Publication Code : 011 611

    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.

  • 29 Jul 2024

    Adult Safeguarding: Roles and Competencies for Health Care Staff

    Publication Code : 011 256

    One of the most important principles of safeguarding is that it is everyone’s responsibility. Health care staff frequently work with people in their moments of greatest need and can witness health and social inequalities which have a direct impact on the lives of people they care for. This updated document is designed to guide professionals and the teams they work with to identify the competencies they need in order to support individuals to receive personalised and culturally sensitive safeguarding. It sets out minimum training requirements along with education and training principles.

  • 9 Jul 2024

    RCN Register of Interests

    The purpose of this register is for members of RCN Council, Committees, Boards, external advisers and senior RCN staff to declare their interests outside of the RCN. We do this because they have a duty to act impartially and objectively, and to take steps to avoid any conflict of interest arising as a result of their membership of, or association with, other organisations or individuals.

  • 24 Jun 2024

    RCN Group annual report 2023

    Publication Code : 011 350

    Combined RCN Group annual report and consolidated financial accounts for year ended 31 December 2023. Comprising the RCN of the United Kingdom, its trading subsidiary RCN Publishing Limited (RCNi), RCN Holdco Limited, and the RCN Foundation.

  • 24 Jun 2024

    RCN Foundation annual report 2023

    Publication Code : 011 352

    This is the RCN Foundation annual report for 2023.

  • 24 Jun 2024

    RCNi annual report 2023

    Publication Code : 011 351

    This is the RCNi annual report for 2023.