Press Releases
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04/11/2024
Press Release
RCN members reject Welsh government’s inadequate NHS pay award
An overwhelming 72% of Royal College of Nursing (RCN) members working in the NHS in Wales who took part in the consultation voted to reject the Welsh government's proposed 5.5% pay increase for 2024/25.
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30/10/2024
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Crisis in nursing unresolved after today's Budget, Royal College of Nursing says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The Chancellor’s task was difficult, but the crisis in nursing remains unresolved after today’s Budget. Thousands of staff continue to leave the profession, whilst new nurse numbers have collapsed in every English region. We are a safety-critical profession, worthy of infrastructure-style investment."
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28/10/2024
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New nurse numbers collapsing in every English region, as RCN warns Government’s 10 Year Plan at risk
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “The prospect of huge debt and lack of financial support is putting off the nurses of the future, threatening to leave patients without the highly trained nursing professionals they desperately need."
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25/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to CQC’s annual State of Care report
Responding to CQC’s State of Care report, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This broad and damning report supports the view of Ministers that the NHS is broken. Taking responsibility for fixing it will be tough but cannot start soon enough. "
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24/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to HSSIB report on ‘the delivery of safe and therapeutic care to adults in mental health inpatient settings’
Stephen Jones, UK Head of Nursing Practice at the Royal College of Nursing said: “The long-term failure to invest in mental health nursing is having a direct and deeply worrying impact on those most in need of care."
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23/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to figures showing over one million 12-hour A&E waits this year
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Dangerously long waits have become normalised in our NHS, whilst nursing staff are forced to deliver unsafe care in corridors. They are overworked, understaffed and professionally demoralised. The government needs to step in ahead of winter and prevent this patient safety crisis worsening."
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21/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to launch of government’s NHS 10 Year Plan engagement exercise
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Nursing staff deliver the vast majority of care in the NHS and they know better than anyone how to make services better for patients. The government’s ambitions are the right ones, but to work they will require the expertise of our profession."
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20/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to health secretary’s pledge to ‘rebuild the health service’ ahead of NHS 10 Year Plan launch
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “A fundamental shift from hospital to community is crucial, but the reality is that today’s NHS simply does not have the nursing numbers to deliver it. Without new investment, the number of community nurses will stay on track to be half what it was two decades ago."
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17/10/2024
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Urgently investigate social care exploitation, nursing leader to tell government ahead of Commons’ debate
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “For years, rogue social care employers and recruitment agencies have exploited migrant care workers with almost total impunity. They have shackled people with eye-watering debt, confiscated passports and threatened deportation. It is heartbreaking and unacceptable."
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17/10/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to new figures showing the cost of NHS estate repairs hitting £14bn
Kim Sunley, RCN Head of Health, Safety and Wellbeing, said: "Nursing staff are trying to deliver care in a health service that is falling apart in front of their eyes. They shouldn't have to worry about collapsing ceilings, water leaking through the walls or the presence of dangerous asbestos, but that is the daily reality for many."
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