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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Report
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This data shows exactly why nurses across the country are standing up for their patients and joining picket lines for a second consecutive day today."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England weekly situation report
Responding to the latest NHS England data, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Our NHS is at the point of collapse but we have a Prime Minister who is detached from the reality of the situation. Bed occupancy rates are running at dangerous levels – around 95% – with every square inch of hospital space being used to add more patients, yet there are not more nursing staff to treat the ever growing number of those who need care."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS pressure and Prime Minister's speech
Responding to NHS pressure and the Prime Minister's speech, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen, writes to health secretary Steve Barclay.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to latest NHS performance statistics
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Waiting lists again at record levels, people waiting hours in A&E for treatment and thousands of patients well enough to go home stuck in hospital beds is not a picture of an NHS in the peak of health."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to government winter pressures announcement
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said “Without investment in staff, providing more facilities – whether it’s more beds in care homes or hospitals – won’t make a difference. Nursing staff are leaving the profession in their droves and pay is a key factor. To halt the exodus, ministers must pay them fairly.”
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UK government announces new NHS pay offer for nursing staff in England
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The government was forced into these negotiations and to reopen the pay award as a result of the historic pressure from nursing staff. Members took the hardest of decisions to go on strike and I believe they have been vindicated today."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England vacancy statistics
Responding to the latest NHS England vacancy statistics, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This is a startling reminder of the depth of the crisis in the nursing workforce."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Budget Statement
Responding to the Budget Statement, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "England's NHS and social care system is ailing and the Budget did not put it on a better path. Jeremy Hunt is on the record less than a year ago raising the alarm over the greatest workforce crisis in NHS history but as Chancellor he is not yet gripping it."
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NHS England survey ‘lays bare’ staff in crisis, says RCN, warning change cannot wait
A decline in staff satisfaction with the quality of care, increased pressure in the workplace and crisis in mental health could spell disaster for the National Health Service.
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Nursing staff to vote on new NHS pay offer in England
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: "Weeks of negotiation resulted in a new offer and it’s only right that we ask our members to vote again and to give their view on the government’s proposal."
