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Reps Campaign Resource Pack
These resource packs can be used to help RCN reps develop their campaign strategy and tactics.
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Defining moment for nursing as Royal College of Nursing announces ballot dates and urges hundreds of thousands of members to support strike action
The world’s largest nursing trade union and professional body is recommending hundreds of thousands of its members to support industrial strike action in a ballot that opens in mid-September.
Updated: 6 January 2023 -
Gender and Nursing as a Profession (Executive Summary)
This is a short summary of Gender and Nursing as a Profession, a report which explores and critiques the gendered construction of value within the nursing profession and evaluates how value is attributed to nursing, the value placed on individuals and the status of the profession. This work was comm...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
RCN Nursing Education in Termination of Pregnancy Services
This report outlines the results from an online survey conducted by the RCN, across the Termination of Pregnancy services in England, Wales and Scotland, to assess the current and future education requirements of nurses, midwives and non-registered health care support workers. It provides an outline...
Updated: 7 October 2021 -
Joint Union Submission to the NHS Pay Review Body 2020-21
This submission focuses on the implementation of the pay agreement in England whilst providing commentary on recruitment, retention and motivation trends.
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Living in the Red
This report investigates how London’s cost of living impacts on nursing staff working in the capital. It showed that London’s high cost of living is forcing nursing staff out of the capital due to high accommodation and travel costs. Our members told us they feel less financially secure compared to ...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Futureproofing Community Children’s Nursing
This guidance is for health care professionals, service providers and those involved with planning and commissioning services. It sets out the RCN’s perspective on contemporary and future children and young people’s nursing services in the home and community setting. It also underlines the increasin...
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Staffing for Safe and Effective Care in the UK
This report provides an overview of progress made against the safe staffing campaign principles during 2019. It includes country-specific updates as well as a look ahead to priorities during 2020.
Updated: 13 July 2021 -
Medicines Management
This publication provides an overview to direct nurses to the most appropriate information to support specific needs. It can be used by education and learning facilitators in practice to support robust training and competence development in medicines management.
Updated: 4 February 2021 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to analysis from the Nuffield Trust
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Liz Truss must ask herself why record numbers are quitting a career they’ve loved. And, more importantly, tell us what her government will do about it. We need the prime minister to show she’s grasped the urgency here. Nursing staff know ...
Updated: 3 March 2023