Blogs
Read the latest opinions from the RCN in Scotland
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blog posts
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31 Jan 2024
Long term investment needed to ensure safe staffing
The reports of the level of efficiency savings or budget cuts that Scotland’s Health Boards are facing are extremely concerning, as are the reports of some of the approaches health boards are looking at to deliver these savings.
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23 Jan 2024
Scottish government asked to act urgently on Agenda for Change review
Delays on funding and implementation are 'frustrating and disappointing'.
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17 Jan 2024
Why we do not support the National Care Service Bill
Despite agreeing with the aims behind the Bill, Colin Poolman outlines why we cannot support it.
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23 Nov 2023
The student, the nursing support worker and the mysterious poly bag
Today is all about celebrating and recognising the contribution nursing support workers make across health and care services. I remember my first few weeks as a student nurse working in a medical ward.
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23 Nov 2023
Nursing support workers are here for us – and we’re here for them
Nursing support workers’ day is an important date in my calendar every year.
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17 Nov 2023
'It takes a lot of work to unlearn our own biases'
Kathrina Coronel, an internationally educated nurse from the Philippines who is working in Scotland, reflects on her journey to and experience of living in the UK.
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10 Oct 2023
The inherent value of mental health nursing
On World Mental Health Day 2023, we’re reminded that since the Covid-19 pandemic there’s been a steep rise in the prevalence of people in Scotland experiencing challenges to their good mental health.
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25 Aug 2023
Listening and engaging with our profession will be key
Your campaigning led Scotland’s First Minister to commit to a Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce and now you are being given the opportunity to help shape the work of that Taskforce.
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17 Aug 2023
Progressing our 2023 workforce report recommendations
In May we published our second annual Nursing Workforce in Scotland Report. If you haven’t already seen it, it’s worth a read.
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11 Aug 2023
How member experiences are helping shape guidance on implementing safe staffing legislation
At RCN Scotland, our Safe Staffing work programme is a key focus across all our teams. We’ve been helping shape the statutory guidance that will support implementation of the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 (or HCSA).
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