Press Releases
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15/11/2022
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Royal College of Nursing meets with health secretary Steve Barclay
Following a meeting with health secretary Steve Barclay, RCN director of employment relations and legal services, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: “We will only make progress through detailed discussions that seriously consider the concerns of nursing staff."
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15/11/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS Providers’ report on waiting lists and winter pressures
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “NHS leaders are having to cry out for help on the eve of the government’s spending announcements. Their fears are the same as ours - patients are being put at risk by the lack of investment from government."
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15/11/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Prime Minister's comments about pay for nursing staff
Responding to the Prime Minister's comments that "we have enormous gratitude for our nurses" but that the RCN's pay claim is "unaffordable", RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Gratitude is not enough – it doesn’t pay the bills and it doesn’t stop nursing staff leaving the profession because they can no longer afford to be a nurse."
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10/11/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to latest NHS England performance data
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “These record waiting lists and delays for treatment in A&E are exactly why nursing has taken the historic decision to strike. These pressures cannot continue. Staff are doing everything they can to treat patients, but there are simply not enough nurses."
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09/11/2022
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Nursing staff vote to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK
Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to take strike action over pay levels and patient safety concerns, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) can confirm.
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28/10/2022
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Nursing staff are effectively working one day a week for free after a decade of real-terms pay cuts
The goodwill and expertise of the profession is being exploited by governments across the UK, the RCN says, with new analysis showing that experienced nurses are working one day a week for free because of a decade of real-terms pay cuts.
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27/10/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England workforce sickness absence data
RCN Interim Director of Nursing, Helen Whyley, said: “It should be sounding alarm bells in the office of the new health secretary when more than one in five of the days lost to sickness in the NHS in England are due to stress, anxiety, and depression."
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25/10/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the announcement of Steve Barclay as the Secretary of State for Health and Care
Responding to the announcement of Steve Barclay as the Secretary of State for Health and Care, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Last time in this job, the Health Secretary handed down the NHS pay cut we are currently balloting our members on. Within days, he will find out the result of that and the historic strike action that may result from it."
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25/10/2022
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Nursing staff quitting their NHS pensions to make ends meet as cost-of-living crisis bites
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “It is a sad day when the people who care for this country from cradle to grave don’t earn enough to provide for their own future. A lifetime of service should never mean a lifetime of poverty."
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24/10/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the announcement of Rishi Sunak as the new prime minister
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "Rishi Sunak must now decide if he wants to be the prime minister who cut the NHS and social care to the bone or one that invested in its people, patients and priorities"
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