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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent
Responding to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent, RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Nicola Ranger, said: “Today marks a backwards step in the way we treat those fleeing persecution. This law will undermine people’s fundamental right, which are enshrined in international law, and have a catastrophic impact on their health and wellbeing."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health Foundation report projecting 2.5m more people in England will be living with major illness by 2040
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This report should act as a wake-up call to a government that has failed to plan properly, and left health and care services without the funding desperately needed."
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Fewer people applying to study UK nursing courses makes workforce plans harder, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “It is deeply concerning to see the number of people applying to study nursing falling again – a clear result of the way the profession has been treated by those in power."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to fall in nursing courses acceptance rate
RCN Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: “The UK Government has stumbled at the first hurdle of their NHS Workforce Plan, with 12% fewer people expected to take up nursing courses this year in England. These numbers are not just a sad story for today, but a story for years to come of how the ministers baked future nursing shortages into the NHS."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the minimum service level consultation
RCN Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The RCN has always been responsible in taking safe strike action, with concerns for patient safety at its core. However nursing staff will tell you there are not safe staffing levels on non-strike days - and they are sometimes unable to provide the level of service and care patients need."
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RCN Director warns MPs that NHS Workforce Plan is a ‘lofty set of aspirations without any detail’
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is a ‘lofty set of aspirations without any detail of how they’ll be delivered’, the RCN’s Director for England Patricia Marquis said today when giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Nuffield Trust analysis
Royal College of Nursing Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: “The Royal College of Nursing has long advocated for a loan forgiveness scheme for nursing staff to boost recruitment and retention to the public sector nursing workforce. Many people choose to become a nurse so that they can help care for some of the sickest and most vulnerable people in our society – and it is wrong that they should be saddled with, on average, almost £50,000 of debt."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Health and Social Care Secretary and Prime Minister meeting on NHS winter pressures
RCN Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “We need to have a long-term conversation of how we protect the NHS whatever the time of year so we do not need to reach this point every winter, investing in the nursing workforce must be at the heart of this.”
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How becoming a Learning Disability Nurse really can exceed your expectations
Did I know what a career in learning disability nursing would be like? Did I know the rewards it would bring and what I could achieve before I started over 26 years ago?
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Royal College of Nursing responds to new financial support allocations announced for student nurses in England
Responding to the announcement by the Department for Health and Social Care, RCN Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: "We have been campaigning on this and it is an important step in improving nursing students' ability to afford to fulfil their placements, but more radical changes are needed to address the shortage of nursing students."