Press Releases
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27/11/2022
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to Transport Secretary's comments that public sector pay rises in line with inflation are “unaffordable”
Responding to comments from Transport Secretary Mark Harper that public sector pay rises in line with inflation are “unaffordable”, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “While billions of pounds is being spent on temporary measures like agency staff to stick a plaster on the NHS workforce crisis, we are told a pay rise for nursing staff is unaffordable."
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26/11/2022
Press Release
‘Negotiations or nothing’, nursing union tells government over strike
In a fresh exchange of letters on Saturday afternoon between the RCN’s General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay MP, the union leader has reiterated the call for negotiations to settle the dispute over NHS pay and patient safety.
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27/05/2021
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to Government u-turn on plans for pandemic ban on social care staff moving between care homes
In October last year it emerged the Government was planning to introduce a ban on nursing staff moving between care homes in England to try to prevent the spread of Covid-19.
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26/05/2021
Press Response
Royal College of Nursing responds to Dominic Cummings' Select Committee appearance
RCN Chair of Council, Dave Dawes, said: “Failures in planning, decision-making and accountability left nursing staff dangerously short of the protection they needed from the very beginning of the pandemic."
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12/05/2021
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to new study that explores views of healthcare staff on the COVID-19 vaccine
Helen Donovan, RCN Professional Lead for Public Health, said: "We are proud to have worked on this important study to better understand the attitudes, experiences and concerns of health and social care workers to the COVID-19 vaccine."
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12/05/2021
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Royal College of Nursing responds to announcement of public independent COVID-19 inquiry
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "The PM has assured the nation today that the long-awaited Covid-19 public inquiry will have a statutory footing, which is what nursing staff expect if lessons are to be truly learned."
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29/04/2021
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing comments on Sir Simon Stevens stepping down from NHS England
RCN President, Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty, said: “He always spoke about nurses and doctors, in that order, and I would like to thank him for the incredible support he has given us as a community and profession throughout the pandemic.
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27/04/2021
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing stands in solidarity with nursing staff in India
RCN President Professor Dame Anne Marie Rafferty, said: "In the context of a global pandemic, no one is safe until everyone is safe."
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09/04/2021
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing sends condolences on death of HRH The Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh
“The contribution His Royal Highness made to public life in this country for many decades will be his greatest legacy," said Dame Donna Kinnair, RCN's Chief Executive and General Secretary
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18/03/2021
Press Release
Boris Johnson must stand by nurses who stood by him, says RCN leader
The prime minister must remember the work of nursing staff he praised after his own hospital stay and reconsider his one per cent NHS pay award , the leader of the Royal College of Nursing says in a speech to activists today.
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