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Members employed by the Care Quality Commission to begin industrial action on 17 April
This follows a member vote in response to the employer’s latest pay award.
Updated: 31 August 2023 -
With age comes wisdom (apparently)
Vicky Sandy-Davis, our Lead Nurse for Independent Health and Social Care in the West Midlands, discusses her career in learning disability nursing and how she came to work at the RCN.
Updated: 11 March 2024 -
New Vice Chair of RCN Council elected
Paul Vaughan has been elected as the new Vice Chair of RCN Council.
Updated: 26 September 2023 -
Demanding more for nursing across the UK
Our Chief Nurse Professor Nicola Ranger updates members on the action being taken to improve the rights and working conditions for nursing staff across the UK.
Updated: 29 March 2024 -
RCN reveals speakers for flagship annual conference
Inclusion, environmental challenges and reaction to a historic year will be addressed at the UK’s largest nursing event.
Updated: 26 September 2023 -
The highlight of my student career
Heather Massie, former student member of the RCN Trade Union Committee, reflects on her experience and encourages current nursing students to seize the opportunity.
Updated: 16 October 2023 -
Urgent investment in the nursing workforce needed as waiting lists look set to soar
Patients will only get the treatment they deserve when there are enough nursing staff to care for them, the RCN says.
Updated: 26 March 2024 -
Health Secretary’s stance on diversity roles is ‘playing politics’, RCN says
Steve Barclay’s instruction to NHS managers to stop recruiting to diversity and inclusion roles creates ‘false division’, threatens staff wellbeing and patient outcomes.
Updated: 19 March 2024 -
Mental health parity: 'It feels like a losing battle'
Nursing staff raise alarm over mental health care inequality, saying it’s got worse since the pandemic and governments have failed to address the issue.
Updated: 10 March 2024 -
‘Divisive’ rise in costs for overseas nursing staff will deepen NHS staffing crisis
We’ve written to the Home Secretary to condemn the planned increase in costs for overseas health workers and nursing students coming to the UK.
Updated: 5 March 2024
