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Royal College of Nursing responds to TUC study showing child poverty increasing in key-worker households
Responding to a TUC study showing child poverty is increasing in key-worker households, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The reason that some children of nursing staff are living in poverty is because their parents aren’t paid enough.
Updated: 3 January 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to announcement of new surgical hubs to cut waiting lists
Responding to an announcement by the Department of Health and Social Care of new surgical hubs to cut waiting lists, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “More beds and clinics will only help patients if there are enough nursing staff to care for the people in those beds. Only yesterday...
Updated: 24 January 2023 -
Caring for Children and Young People
This updated publication is for nurses working in the independent sector and identifies key points for organising children and young people’s health care services in independent settings, which include hospitals and clinics.
Updated: 24 December 2021 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to BMJ calculations of £2 million more per month extra energy spend for hospitals
Responding to BMJ calculations that hospitals may be forced to pay out £2 million extra a month due to the fuel price surge, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “If the new prime minister expects the NHS to pick between staff and heating bills this year, they will face a sev...
Updated: 30 January 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee report on long-term funding of adult social care
Responding to the Levelling Up, Housing and Communities Committee report on long-term funding of adult social care, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Fixing social care is key to tackling the NHS backlog. Without investment, hospital patients cannot be discharged into the community,...
Updated: 2 January 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Liz Truss' proposals on public sector pay
Responding to the proposals, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: "This is an attack on NHS values and a direct assault on its professionals."
Updated: 31 December 2022 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Department of Health and Social Care's Code of Practice for International Recruitment
Responding to the publication of the Department of Health and Social Care’s Code of Practice for International Recruitment for England, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Employers must respect and apply these new rules and the UK government must clarify how it will ensure...
Updated: 31 December 2022 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Nursing and Midwifery Council's (NMC) latest 'Ambitious for change' report
Responding to the NMC's latest report, RCN Diversity and Equalities Co-ordinator, Bruno Daniel, said, "It is time to see improvements. Nursing staff deserve to see change and for wider systemic discrimination in both nursing and midwifery to be a thing of the past."
Updated: 30 December 2022 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to UCAS figures showing a fall in acceptances onto nursing courses
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “To address the staffing crisis and give the kind of care patients deserve, we need these figures to look even stronger. Sadly, they have headed in the wrong direction this year."
Updated: 16 January 2023 -
New Royal College of Nursing ballot results give clearest sign yet of strike action by nursing staff across the UK
A ballot of Royal College of Nursing members in Scotland has shown the majority are willing to take part in strike action – with the RCN saying the results are the clearest sign yet that industrial action could take place across the UK later this year. In the indicative ballot of RCN members working...
Updated: 10 January 2023