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Early support hubs good first step, but needs to be the first of many, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Head of Nursing Practice and Professional Lead for Mental Health Stephen Jones said: "The RCN has repeatedly pushed the government to invest in early mental health intervention and we’re pleased to see these calls recognised with additional funding for early support hubs. But as demand continues to rise, this must be one step of many."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Royal College of Emergency Medicine report on infection prevention and control
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Pat Cullen said: "Emergency departments are crowded, undignified and dangerous. Nursing staff are doing everything possible to keep their patients safe but mounting pressures make everything a relentless battle."
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Yorkshire Humber reps' support network October
Join this network to meet other reps and get support and tips to help you in your role. These online sessions bring all reps together – learning reps, health and safety and stewards. The network sessions are held on a monthly basis. You can use facilities time or seek study leave from your employer. The sessions are an opportunity to learn from each other develop a greater understanding of how the rep roles interlink ask questions and explore issues with experienced members of the regional team practice case work using case studies increase your knowledge on subjects you are less confident in. There will also be specific learning sessions, topics to be decided.
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Report of Congress 2010
Report of Congress 2010 from the forty-third meeting of RCN Congress. Held on 25 to 29 April 2010 at Bournemouth International Centre (BIC).
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Yorkshire Humber reps' support network November
Join this network to meet other reps and get support and tips to help you in your role. These online sessions bring all reps together – learning reps, health and safety and stewards. The network sessions are held on a monthly basis. You can use facilities time or seek study leave from your employer. The sessions are an opportunity to learn from each other develop a greater understanding of how the rep roles interlink ask questions and explore issues with experienced members of the regional team practice case work using case studies increase your knowledge on subjects you are less confident in. There will also be specific learning sessions, topics to be decided.
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Yorkshire Humber reps' support network December
Join this network to meet other reps and get support and tips to help you in your role. These online sessions bring all reps together – learning reps, health and safety and stewards. The network sessions are held on a monthly basis. You can use facilities time or seek study leave from your employer. The sessions are an opportunity to learn from each other develop a greater understanding of how the rep roles interlink ask questions and explore issues with experienced members of the regional team practice case work using case studies increase your knowledge on subjects you are less confident in. There will also be specific learning sessions, topics to be decided.
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New pay structure can deliver ‘fresh start’ for nursing, RCN tells government
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Nursing is not a calling. Or a vocation. Or ‘women’s work’. We are a profession; we are experts; we are leaders. There is an art and a science to what we do."
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Royal College of Nursing welcomes extension of NHS Practitioner Health scheme
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said: "We are relieved to see the funding to NHS Practitioner Health extended for a further 12 months. Questions remain, however, as to how the decision to close the scheme to new registrants was made."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to prime minister's 'sicknote culture' speech
Professor Pat Cullen, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive said: “Nursing staff are the largest single workforce in health and care, but they themselves are suffering from increasingly poor long-term health. The prime minister’s overtures about ‘sicknote culture’ will be deeply offensive to a profession hit hard by long COVID and a spiralling mental health crisis. Issues of population health are not ones that a government can simply instruct away."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Liberal Democrat research on delayed discharges from hospital
Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England, said “Nobody should stay in hospital longer than they need to, but every day thousands remain on wards simply because the NHS can’t discharge them to where they can receive more appropriate care. This adds pressure across hospitals leaving patients waiting hours to be admitted and others being treated in corridors, doorways, and store cupboards."