Press Releases
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28/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS England's Long COVID Action Plan
Responding to NHS England's Long COVID Action Plan, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Nursing staff know only too well the impact that long COVID can have on patients. While investment in specialist clinics and services will support many, the postcode lottery of long COVID must also be addressed."
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25/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health and Social Care Committee's report on the health and care workforce
Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The findings of the Committee show in the starkest of detail the workforce crisis across the whole of health and social care in England. That persistent understaffing in all care settings poses a serious risk to staff and patient safety should shock ministers into action."
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21/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the official start of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry
Responding to the official start of the UK COVID-19 Public Inquiry by chair Baroness Hallett RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Baroness Hallett’s commitment to place inequalities and the voices of those not often heard at the heart of the inquiry will be appreciated by nursing staff, who too often felt invisible during the pandemic."
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21/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to YouGov survey showing a majority of the public support nursing staff taking industrial action
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "A lifetime of service must never mean a lifetime of poverty. This real-terms pay cut for our members is a national disgrace."
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19/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing to ballot members in England on industrial action
Only hours after the Royal College of Nursing branded the NHS pay award in England ‘a grave misstep’, nursing staff across England have been called to action by their union.
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19/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to NHS pay award
Responding to the Government’s announcement of this year’s NHS pay award, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This is a grave misstep by ministers. With this low award, the government is misjudging the mood of nursing staff and the public too."
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18/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing comments ahead of the expected NHS pay award announcement
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “With inflation already at 11.7 per cent and set to soar even higher later this year, staff will find yet another real-terms fall in salaries completely unacceptable."
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16/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing responds to FT reports on public sector pay awards next week
Responding to reports in the FT on public sector pay awards next week, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Millions of optimistic workers will be hoping these crushing reports are entirely inaccurate. Their work and current personal hardship warrants better from government."
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15/07/2022
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Royal College of Nursing writes to NHS chief executives in response to NHS England update on ambulance handovers
RCN Chair of Council Carol Popplestone and England Director Patricia Marquis said: “The setting of staffing levels and nurse-to-patient ratios are out with the control of an individual nurse working at the point of care.”
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15/07/2022
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Extreme heat will put nursing and patients at risk, warns the Royal College of Nursing
Employers must do more to protect patients and staff in every care setting as the Met Office issues the first “red extreme” heat warning in its history, the Royal College of Nursing has warned.
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