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Openness and transparency key to rebuilding services
Commenting in response to today’s publication of a strategic framework for rebuilding HSC services, Pat Cullen, Director of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Northern Ireland said:
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
RCN members in Northern Ireland accept proposals on pay parity and safe staffing
Nursing staff have voted to accept an offer made in response to their historic strike action.
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
RCN statement regarding fit-testing for respiratory masks in HSC
RCN statement regarding fit-testing for respiratory masks in HSC
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
Half of nursing staff under pressure to work without PPE, reveals RCN
Half of nursing staff, including those working in in the most high-risk environments, have felt pressure to carry out their work without the levels of protection set out in official guidance, the RCN can reveal. High-risk environments include areas where patients with or suspected of having COVID-19...
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
Safe staffing on the agenda as RCN presents evidence to NI Assembly Health Committee
RCN Northern Ireland Director Pat Cullen tells the Assembly’s Committee for Health that safe staffing must remain a priority.
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
RCN raises concerns to First and Deputy First Ministers about PPE
The RCN in Northern Ireland has written to the First Minister and Deputy First Minister to demand their intervention in ensuring the sufficient supply of personal protective equipment (PPE) for nursing staff during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
RCN responds to Northern Ireland Audit Office report
We need safe nurse staffing legislation now says RCN as shocking figures on workforce planning revealed
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
Nursing Exhibition to celebrate Florence Nightingale opens digitally
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) in Northern Ireland has collaborated with the Florence Nightingale Foundation, Department of Health and a number of other nursing and midwifery organisations to produce an exhibition to celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of Florence Nightingale and the co...
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
Royal College of Nursing launches Fair Pay for Nursing campaign
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) today launches its ‘Fair Pay for Nursing’ campaign to demand a 12.5% pay rise for nursing staff across the UK.
Updated: 17 May 2021 -
Nurses in Northern Ireland join the RCN’s first UK-wide strike ballot of NHS nursing staff
300,000 RCN members across the UK will begin voting from today on whether to take strike action in the RCN’s first UK-wide ballot.
Updated: 6 August 2023