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Menopause: RCN Guidance for Nurses, Midwives and Health Visitors
To provide support and advice to women it is important that health care professionals understand the changes that women face at the time of their menopause and the issues related to improving health after menopause. This updated publication aims to help health care professionals gain awareness of th...
Updated: 6 November 2023 -
Recognising World IBD Day - 19 May 2023
IBD is a significant disease and most nurses working in GI will have contact with patients with IBD, often at their most vulnerable. Nurses working within IBD care have an important role within the care and management of people living with IBD providing holistic, advanced care.
Updated: 17 October 2023 -
The 3 L's: Listening Learning and Leading
The RCN Gastrointestinal (GI) Forum Annual Strategy Day is upon us once again and my first as Chair of this great Forum.
Updated: 23 January 2023 -
Nursing confirmed as ‘most trusted profession’ as strike risk grows
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This huge vote of confidence from the public will boost the morale of nursing staff as we head for strikes in December. The profession at the bottom of the list should be careful how it speaks to and about the one at the top."
Updated: 23 April 2023 -
First strike dates announced by Royal College of Nursing after UK government declines NHS pay negotiations
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "Ministers have had more than two weeks since we confirmed that our members felt such injustice that they would strike for the first time. My offer of formal negotiations was declined and instead ministers have chosen strike action. They h...
Updated: 25 April 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Prime Minister's comments about pay for nursing staff
Responding to the Prime Minister's comments that "we have enormous gratitude for our nurses" but that the RCN's pay claim is "unaffordable", RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Gratitude is not enough – it doesn’t pay the bills and it doesn’t stop nursing staff leaving the ...
Updated: 15 April 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England urgent and emergency care daily situation reports
Responding to the latest NHS England urgent and emergency care daily situation reports, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “These figures highlight the severe strain the health secretary himself recently admitted that the healthcare system is under. It doesn’t bode well when adult bed...
Updated: 24 April 2023 -
‘Negotiations or nothing’, nursing union tells government over strike
In a fresh exchange of letters on Saturday afternoon between the RCN’s General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen and the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care Steve Barclay MP, the union leader has reiterated the call for negotiations to settle the dispute over NHS pay and patient saf...
Updated: 26 April 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to health secretary’s comments on Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg
Responding to health secretary Steve Barclay’s comments on BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg programme, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “The health secretary’s lack of intention and inability to see the urgency of this situation will trouble every nurse.”
Updated: 20 April 2023 -
Nursing staff vote to strike in the majority of NHS employers across the UK
Nursing staff at the majority of NHS employers across the UK have voted to take strike action over pay levels and patient safety concerns, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) can confirm.
Updated: 9 November 2022