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CONSULTATION RESPONSE: Triennial Review of the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB)
The RCN has responded to The Department of Health's request for views on its triennial review which looks at the form, functions, governance and performance of the NHS Pay Review Body (NHSPRB) and the Review Body on Doctors’ and Dentists’ remuneration (DDRB).
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CONSULTATION RESPONSE: Local authority public health allocations 2015-16
The RCN has responded to the Department of Health's consultation document on how to fairly and effectively make savings through reductions to the Public Health Grant to local authorities.
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RCN Nursing History Now: Autumn Winter 2019
Inside the autumn/winter 2019 issue of Nursing History Now magazine we celebrate the 100-year anniversary of the state registration of nursing. Discover the role the College of Nursing played in this hard-fought battle. Plus, we look back at learning disability nursing through the ages, the London Foundling Hospital in the 18th century, black history from the RCN Archive and how cakes saved the College in the 1920s.
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RCN Nursing History Now: Spring 2019
Read all about the last remaining memorials to Crimean War nurses, recording the voices of nurses past, chamber-pot taxes in the 1700s and a new book about the Royal London Hospital Nurses League. And discover some charismatic characters from the archives of Northampton General Hospital.
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What
Major advances in medicine, changes in the NHS and the growth of nursing specialisms and research have changed the role of nursing dramatically in the last 100 years.
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Who
From Victorian times to the present day, the image of the nurse has taken on many roles in our imagination.
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Now
Since we were set up by a group of hospital matrons, the Royal College of Nursing has seen great changes. Today we are an influential nursing community where equality, diversity, human rights and inclusion and fundamental to nursing care.
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How
Over the last one hundred years the RCN has played an essential role in nursing education, improving standards and providing ongoing training.
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Black History Month
I recently attended an internationally educated nurses’ (IEN) event and was truly inspired by the amazing talent of our IENs.
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The power of RCN membership
I’ve been a qualified nurse for 31 years. I originally wanted to be a policewoman, but I hated sixth form as all my friends had left school, so I left too and joined a Youth Training Scheme (YTS) working in a nursing home.