Press Releases
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11/06/2024
Press Release
‘Recommitting to old targets not enough’ – RCN responds to Conservative Party manifesto
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Nursing staff want firm commitments to turn around the crisis in health and care but this manifesto stops short of providing them. Recruiting and retaining more nurses is urgent, but recommitting to old targets in rhetoric is not enough."
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10/06/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Liberal Democrat's 2024 General Election manifesto
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Improving access to outside hospital services is the right commitment, but the sums offered fall far short. Any meaningful expansion will require more than the £8bn extra promised each year. Overstretched nursing staff need reassuring that they are not being asked to do even more with less."
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09/06/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrats plan on ambulance handovers and corridor care
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Corridor care is a national emergency and ending it needs to be a priority for politicians in this election."
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07/06/2024
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RCN Wales incensed with the Welsh government over its pay settlement with the BMA days after First Minister opens RCN conference
RCN’s annual Congress spotlighted the harrowing headlines in nursing across the UK, including unsafe staffing levels, normalised care in inappropriate settings and the alarming rise in nurses considering taking their own lives.
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06/06/2024
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University financial crisis ‘engulfing’ nursing courses, RCN warns
RCN Acting General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “What is happening in universities will impact the NHS, the care sector, and their ability to provide safely staffed services"
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05/06/2024
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Workplace pressure leading cause in rise in nursing suicidal thoughts, new research shows
Workplace pressures drive a surge in suicidal thoughts among UK nurses, according to new research from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
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04/06/2024
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NHS Long Term Workforce Plan will be 10,000 new nurses behind target by 2025
Declining numbers starting nursing degree courses in England and university course closures creates ‘irretrievable downward spiral’ in workforce planning, RCN warns.
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04/06/2024
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New RCN analysis reveals devastating collapse in learning disability nursing workforce
New analysis from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released today reveals a huge collapse in the number of learning disability nurses training to work in England’s health and care services – with the regional picture revealing large swathes of the country where shockingly few learning disability nurses will enter the workforce in the years to come.
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04/06/2024
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrat proposals for social care
Responding to the Liberal Democrat plan for free personal care to end the hospital crisis and help people stay in their own homes, Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: "With over a hundred thousand care worker vacancies across the sector, any policy to improve personal care requires an equally ambitious, fully-funded long-term workforce plan."
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04/06/2024
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RCN Congress Highlights Crumbling NHS Estates
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Congress today addressed the urgent issue of inadequate maintenance of NHS estate infrastructure affecting patient care in the UK.
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