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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 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the energy price cap announcement
Responding to the energy price cap announcement, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This latest increase in heating costs will leave many terrified about how they’ll stay warm this winter. Nursing staff I talked to this week were dreading this kind of announcement and fear...
Updated: 24 January 2023 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS performance data
Responding to the latest NHS performance data for England, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen, said: “Patients deserve better. Nursing staff are trying to deliver the best they can, but safe patient care is being undermined by the workforce crisis across health and social care."
Updated: 9 January 2023 -
Looked After Children: Roles and Competencies of Healthcare Staff
Over recent years there has been a significant rise in the number of looked after children across the UK, although there are variations in trends between the four UK nations. Published by the Royal College of Nursing, with the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health, this publication identifie...
Updated: 5 July 2021