Press Releases
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06/02/2025
Press Release
No end in sight to the pressures on the wards, warns Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Every day patients are being admitted only to be treated in corridors in unsafe and undignified conditions. This year-round crisis cannot simply be passed over as winter pressures."
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05/02/2025
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Dawn Butler MP introducing Bill to legally protect the title ‘nurse’
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Nursing is a safety critical profession, and the title ‘nurse’ needs to be protected. Patients deserve to know that when they are being treated by a registered nurse, that they can trust the knowledge, professionalism, and clinical expertise that brings."
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03/02/2025
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Government should solve corridor care crisis within a year if it acts now, public says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The public and nursing staff can see a tragedy for patients unfolding before their eyes. They know care standards are unacceptable and they want government to act decisively."
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30/01/2025
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the UK Government's NHS Mandate and NHS England's 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The health secretary says he wants to get ‘back to basics’, but the basic truth is you cannot cut waiting times and transform care without tackling the crisis in nursing."
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30/01/2025
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Pressure on nursing staff unrelenting as norovirus surges in NHS, says RCN
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: “From one of the busiest summers ever, to now surging norovirus, the pressure on nursing staff is unrelenting. They are doing their best to keep people safe, but widespread vacancies and not enough beds mean they face an impossible job. Across England, they continue to report patients being crammed into corridors – ministers need to step up and act."
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29/01/2025
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Royal College of Nursing "very concerned" about Cardiff University’s proposal to close its School of Nursing
Helen Whyley, RCN Wales Executive Director, responds to Cardiff University’s proposal to close its nursing school.
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28/01/2025
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RCN demands urgent action and transparency on corridor care in Wales
The RCN has issued a strong call to action to the Welsh government, urging them to take decisive steps to eradicate corridor care
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23/01/2025
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Nursing staff still reporting corridor care as jam-packed hospitals struggle with norovirus and delayed discharges
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: “We still don't know how many patients are being cared for in these conditions and the government needs to be open with the public about the scale of the challenge. Transparency is crucial to turning this situation around."
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16/01/2025
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Patients dying in corridors as nurses prevented from delivering CPR, new report reveals
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “This devastating testimony from frontline nursing staff shows patients are coming to harm every day, forced to endure unsafe treatment in corridors, toilets, and even rooms usually reserved for families to visit deceased relatives."
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14/01/2025
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'Those on the frontline of care are being left to take accountability for failures out of their control', says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Those working in support roles are a hugely important part of the nursing workforce and large parts of the NHS would not run without them. But this report brings into sharp focus how the lessons of the past have gone unheeded and those on the frontline of care are being left to take accountability for failures out of their control."
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