Blogs
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11 Nov 2022
History has been made. You have voted for your profession and your patients
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen reflects on a historic week for nursing as for the first time in 106 years, RCN members from across the UK have voted to strike.
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4 Nov 2022
Our historic ballot has now closed, and the fight for fair pay continues
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen sends a message of thanks to members who voted in the RCN’s first UK-wide strike action ballot.
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3 Nov 2022
RCN Industrial action ballot now closed - a big Thank You to all!
Nicky Hughes, Associate Director (Employment Relations), RCN Wales, shares her thanks with everyone who took part in the campaign to encourage members to vote in the industrial action ballot, which closed on 2 November.
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2 Nov 2022
A leadership programme by independent sector staff for independent sector staff
Brenda Rushe, Senior Nurse in Professional Practice and Independent Sector Lead for Northern Ireland, discusses setting up a new Leading in a Crisis programme in collaboration with members from the Independent Health and Social Care sector.
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28 Oct 2022
Visiting the Royal College of Nursing Archives in Edinburgh
The RCN archives have been closed to researchers for the past 21/2 years as the world lived in a pandemic. The archives are now opening.
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27 Oct 2022
Final days to return your strike ballot paper and ensure your voice is heard
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen urges all eligible members who haven’t yet voted to do so before the strike ballot closes on 2 November.
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26 Oct 2022
"It’s my chance to make a difference and speak up for colleagues in non-NHS settings”
Claire Sutton, our new Transformational Lead for the Independent Health and Social Care (IHSC) Sector, discusses how her dad’s death led her to become a nurse, the challenges she’s faced in IHSC and how working for the RCN is her chance to make a difference.
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25 Oct 2022
We need to stand up and say we’ve had enough
We now have the chance to make a difference.
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25 Oct 2022
Enough is enough
Regional Board Chair Carmel O'Boyle says enough is enough. Patient care is suffering because our members are suffering!
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25 Oct 2022
Chair of PNC Rachel Hollis and Chair of TUC Denise Kelly set out their joint commitment to shaping the future of the RCN
Chair of the RCN's PNC Rachel Hollis, and TUC Chair Denise Kelly, share their commitment to helping drive forward the recommendations set out in the independent review of RCN.