Press Releases
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24/04/2025
Press Release
‘Nursing fatigue is deadly and should be treated as a public safety emergency’ warns Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: “This report lays bare the daily reality for nursing staff. They are overstretched, understaffed and regularly work beyond their hours caring for too many patients."
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24/04/2025
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Royal College of Nursing responds to new Work Rights Centre report 'Safeguarding Sponsored Workers'
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “We raised the alarm last year on exploitation in the care sector and the home secretary has promised an investigation, now is the time."
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21/04/2025
Press Release
Nursing staff are the key to solving the crisis in corridor care, says RCN in response to the Liberal Democrats new figures on 24-hour ‘trolley waits’
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “These figures only begin to scratch the surface - the NHS and the UK Government must begin to disclose the true scale of the problem if they’re serious about eradicating it."
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16/04/2025
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Supreme Court ruling on Indefinite Reporting Restriction Orders
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “We will take time to fully understand the implications of the judgment of the Supreme Court for our members and the impact on their rights in these very difficult circumstances.”
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15/04/2025
Press Release
Nursing staff cannot be made to wait any longer, RCN says after the UK Government receives Pay Review Body report on NHS pay for 2025/26
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “Ministers cannot leave nursing staff waiting any longer and must now confirm this year’s pay award. Nursing staff and all NHS workers need certainty now. More dither and delay will not wash. "
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10/04/2025
Press Response
RCN Welcomes Cardiff University Decision to Keep School of Nursing but Warns the University that it has much to do to Regain the Trust of the Nursing Profession
With the scale of cuts to student places and academic staff yet to be finalised, the RCN will be seeking guarantees that there remain enough academic staff to continue to deliver world class research and education and enough student places to provide the pipeline of nursing staff to NHS Wales.
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09/04/2025
Press Release
Government has failed nursing as ministers ditch pay and career reform, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The government had a chance to set nursing on a new path, where it's valued, understood and rewarded fairly. It is now clear that ministers and the government are not in fact “on the side of nurses."
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08/04/2025
Press Release
The UK government must negotiate directly in wake of Scottish government's pay offer, urges RCN
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: "Scotland members will decide if their offer is acceptable but these figures reveal a gap in where the Westminster government is at for England and what direct negotiations with unions can secure elsewhere."
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02/04/2025
Press Release
Ministers cannot dismiss this as a blip or think they can turn this around without investing in the nursing workforce, Royal College of Nursing responds to the British Social Attitudes Survey on public satisfaction with the NHS
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Public satisfaction with the NHS has sunk to a new low and this will come as little surprise to nursing staff who always want to be able to give outstanding care to those they look after."
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02/04/2025
Press Release
Delayed NHS pay award risks making overseas nursing staff ineligible for visa renewal, as RCN warns Home Secretary that new immigration rules threaten nursing workforce
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “There is a risk that if governments do not take action to ensure that 2025/26 pay scales provide Band 3 staff with a salary above the new threshold, these roles will no longer be eligible for sponsorship.”
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