Blogs
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28 Oct 2022
Visiting the Royal College of Nursing Archives in Edinburgh
The RCN archives have been closed to researchers for the past 21/2 years as the world lived in a pandemic. The archives are now opening.
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27 Oct 2022
Final days to return your strike ballot paper and ensure your voice is heard
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen urges all eligible members who haven’t yet voted to do so before the strike ballot closes on 2 November.
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26 Oct 2022
"It’s my chance to make a difference and speak up for colleagues in non-NHS settings”
Claire Sutton, our new Transformational Lead for the Independent Health and Social Care (IHSC) Sector, discusses how her dad’s death led her to become a nurse, the challenges she’s faced in IHSC and how working for the RCN is her chance to make a difference.
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25 Oct 2022
We need to stand up and say we’ve had enough
We now have the chance to make a difference.
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25 Oct 2022
Enough is enough
Regional Board Chair Carmel O'Boyle says enough is enough. Patient care is suffering because our members are suffering!
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25 Oct 2022
Chair of PNC Rachel Hollis and Chair of TUC Denise Kelly set out their joint commitment to shaping the future of the RCN
Chair of the RCN's PNC Rachel Hollis, and TUC Chair Denise Kelly, share their commitment to helping drive forward the recommendations set out in the independent review of RCN.
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24 Oct 2022
50 years since the Briggs Report
How one influential report published half a century ago is still at the heart of nursing today.
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24 Oct 2022
We must work together to transform the RCN
RCN President Dr Denise Chaffer reflects on the findings of the recent independent review into RCN culture and sets out the need for both immediate actions and transformational change.
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20 Oct 2022
There is solidarity and safety in strike action
Dr Helena Ann Mitchell, RCN Mental Health Forum member and Chair of RCN Mental Health Forum ethnic minority subgroup reflects on the current strike action ballot as an opportunity to use a collective voice to influence change.
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20 Oct 2022
The time to stand up and be counted is now.
Estephanie Dunn, Regional Director of RCN North West, on the importance of using your vote.