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Report of Congress 2010
Report of Congress 2010 from the forty-third meeting of RCN Congress. Held on 25 to 29 April 2010 at Bournemouth International Centre (BIC).
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Yorkshire Humber reps' support network November
Join this network to meet other reps and get support and tips to help you in your role. These online sessions bring all reps together – learning reps, health and safety and stewards. The network sessions are held on a monthly basis. You can use facilities time or seek study leave from your employer. The sessions are an opportunity to learn from each other develop a greater understanding of how the rep roles interlink ask questions and explore issues with experienced members of the regional team practice case work using case studies increase your knowledge on subjects you are less confident in. There will also be specific learning sessions, topics to be decided.
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North Yorkshire AGM
Please note the date of this hybrid meeting, which will start at 6pm. Open to all members of the North Yorkshire branch, come along and get involved. Check which branch you belong to by logging into MyRCN. This page will be updated with further information and a booking link to join closer to the date.
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Yorkshire Humber reps' support network December
Join this network to meet other reps and get support and tips to help you in your role. These online sessions bring all reps together – learning reps, health and safety and stewards. The network sessions are held on a monthly basis. You can use facilities time or seek study leave from your employer. The sessions are an opportunity to learn from each other develop a greater understanding of how the rep roles interlink ask questions and explore issues with experienced members of the regional team practice case work using case studies increase your knowledge on subjects you are less confident in. There will also be specific learning sessions, topics to be decided.
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New pay structure can deliver ‘fresh start’ for nursing, RCN tells government
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Nursing is not a calling. Or a vocation. Or ‘women’s work’. We are a profession; we are experts; we are leaders. There is an art and a science to what we do."
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Royal College of Nursing welcomes extension of NHS Practitioner Health scheme
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: "We are relieved to see the funding to NHS Practitioner Health extended for a further 12 months. Questions remain, however, as to how the decision to close the scheme to new registrants was made."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to prime minister's 'sicknote culture' speech
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Nursing staff are the largest single workforce in health and care, but they themselves are suffering from increasingly poor long-term health. The prime minister’s overtures about ‘sicknote culture’ will be deeply offensive to a profession hit hard by long COVID and a spiralling mental health crisis. Issues of population health are not ones that a government can simply instruct away."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrat research on delayed discharges from hospital
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said “Nobody should stay in hospital longer than they need to, but every day thousands remain on wards simply because the NHS can’t discharge them to where they can receive more appropriate care. This adds pressure across hospitals leaving patients waiting hours to be admitted and others being treated in corridors, doorways, and store cupboards."
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Nursing union slams prime minister’s 'misleading and inaccurate' comments on nursing pay
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, said: "Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members rejected the government’s pay offer last year, an offer that was the lowest in the public sector. We remain in a formal trade dispute over pay. Our profession will be greatly angered hearing your comments which sought to take credit for a pay offer that was not accepted."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to analysis by the Royal College of Emergency Medicine showing scale of excess deaths caused by long waits in NHS emergency departments
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “This crisis is taking lives and nursing staff in England’s hospitals are forced to witness it every shift. Go into any hospital, the corridors and cupboards are packed with patients – care is not only undignified but fatally unsafe. One nurse told me a lady had died on a trolley in a corridor and it went unnoticed far too long – that is the current state of our health service."