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‘Just’ Anxiety?’ - Mental Health Awareness Week 2023
Jenifer French, RCN Wales Mental Health and Learning Disability Nurse Adviser, talks us through this year's focus for Mental Health Awareness week and stresses the need for those with severe mental illness to not be left behind.
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Improving equality, diversity and inclusion in the workplace is everyone’s responsibility
As RCN Congress discusses how it can support and improve awareness of unconscious bias within health care, Kokila Swamynathan, Advanced Nurse Practitioner, Inclusion and Diversity Manager and new RCN Wales Board member, reflects on her personal and professional experience of unconscious bias.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to talks with the health secretary today
RCN Director of Employment Relations and Legal Services, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “There is no resolution to our dispute yet in sight. Today’s meeting was bitterly disappointing – nothing for the current year and repeating that ‘the budget is already set’ for next year."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS Urgent and Emergency Daily Situation Report and Sickness Absence data
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The pressure on nursing staff and the effect on their patients is exactly why we are taking strike action With thousands of patients still stuck in hospitals in England who are medically fit to be discharged – up from this time a month ago – the pressure on nursing staff and hospitals is extremely high."
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RCN announces further strike action in February after UK Government fails to start negotiations
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen said: “It is with a heavy heart that nursing staff are striking this week and again in three weeks. Rather than negotiate, Rishi Sunak has chosen strike action again."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to latest NHS England performance data
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Ministers - including the Prime Minister - have so far refused to acknowledge that health and care is in crisis, yet some of what we are hearing from the frontline beggars belief."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to government’s announcement on industrial action legislation and offers to meet
On the government’s announcement on industrial action legislation and offers to meet, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “Curtailing workers’ freedom to participate in lawful industrial action is always undemocratic and we will look closely at what the government releases next week."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS Urgent and Emergency Care Daily Situation Report
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This data shows exactly why nurses across the country are standing up for their patients and joining picket lines for a second consecutive day today."
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England weekly situation report
Responding to the latest NHS England data, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Our NHS is at the point of collapse but we have a Prime Minister who is detached from the reality of the situation. Bed occupancy rates are running at dangerous levels – around 95% – with every square inch of hospital space being used to add more patients, yet there are not more nursing staff to treat the ever growing number of those who need care."