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Royal College of Nursing responds to Nursing and Midwifery Council's report on international nurses and midwives' recruitment
RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The over reliance on international nurse recruitment proves ministers have no grip on the nursing workforce crisis. The huge increase in overseas nurses joining the NMC register shows a focus on short-term fixes rather than long-term solutions."
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Nursing staff quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as cost-of-living crisis bites
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “It is a sad day when the people who care for this country from cradle to grave don’t earn enough to provide for their own future. A lifetime of service should never mean a lifetime of poverty."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s State of Care report
Responding to the publication of the Care Quality Commission’s State of Care report, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The social care sector is in a perilous state, with thousands of nursing vacancies in England. The CQC makes clear that the vast majority of providers cannot recruit the staff needed. And more care homes are struggling to provide adequate care — likely because of the huge workforce pressures. The system is at breaking point."
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Nurses' pay has fallen twice as much as private sector pay, union reveals as first UK-wide strike ballot of NHS nursing staff opens
RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Pat Cullen, said: “Governments have repeatedly neglected the NHS and the value of nursing. We can change this if together we say ‘enough is enough'"
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health Secretary's Conservative Party Conference speech
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen, said: “The Health Secretary pledged to ‘deliver’ for the NHS but she’ll struggle to deliver anything unless she urgently addresses the staffing crisis."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s economic plans announcement
Responding to Chancellor Jeremy Hunt’s update on the Government’s economic plans, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen, said: “The Chancellor’s announcement today will have done nothing to reassure nursing that it will get the investment it so desperately needs"
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Prime Minister's resignation
Responding to the Prime Minister's resignation, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This government collapsed because it pursued a narrow agenda for the rich — giving most to those who have the most."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to media comments by the Health Secretary on not making changes to NHS pay
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “Nurses and support workers hearing this will be angry but it will make them even more determined. Members should find their ballot papers today and show the Health Secretary we have a strong voice that she cannot dismiss."
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Nursing staff are effectively working one day a week for free after a decade of real-terms pay cuts
The goodwill and expertise of the profession is being exploited by governments across the UK, the RCN says, with new analysis showing that experienced nurses are working one day a week for free because of a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England workforce sickness absence data
RCN Interim Director of Nursing, Helen Whyley, said: “It should be sounding alarm bells in the office of the new health secretary when more than one in five of the days lost to sickness in the NHS in England are due to stress, anxiety, and depression."