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Campaign with us

 

Use your voice to demand change for nursing.


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Fair Pay for Nursing

Find out more about the Fair Pay for Nursing campaign and how you can get involved.

Sign our petition

Join our campaign for safe staffing

We're calling for safe and effective care to be enshrined in law in each UK country. 

Invest in nursing. Invest in patients. Invest in society.

Are you ready to make this general election the nursing election?

See what you can do to get prepared, informed and active ahead of Thursday 4 July.
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Influencing starts with insight

Explore our Nursing Workforce Insights page to understand what the nursing workforce in England looks like right now, why we're demanding faster progress and what you can do to help.
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RCN Student member

It doesn't feel like the Government fully understands the importance of nursing care and that its future is in jeopardy if they don't properly fund nursing students.

Navdeep, RCN Student member Fund Our Future campaign

Our successes


Our campaigning work has resulted in real change to the lives of nursing staff across the UK and their patients. We couldn't do it all without the thousands of members who've added their voice. Together, we make change happen. 

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Campaigning during COVID-19

We're continuing to lobby and influence on behalf of our members as the pandemic develops.

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We scrapped the immigration health surcharge for overseas health and care workers in the NHS

It was unfair for health and care staff to pay twice to use the very service they work in. The charge is due to rise to £624 per person per year in October.


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We strengthened the rights of nursing students in the workplace

We successfully campaigned for student nurses’ contracts to be honoured as they entered the profession early to support the workforce during the COVID-19 pandemic.


Become a member of the RCN

Join the world's largest union and professional body for nursing.

Join online or call our membership team on 0345 772 6100.
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Open Letters

Read the open letters we have sent to the government and other organisations.