Press Releases
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21/05/2025
Press Release
Nursing union updates its workforce standards and urges employers to adopt them as a 'matter of urgency'
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: "The Nursing Workforce Standards are already being used by RCN members to challenge staffing and safety issues in their workplaces. I am delighted that the newly revised edition takes into account new evidence as well as feedback from our members and nursing experts."
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18/05/2025
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'There is no hope of delivering the government鈥檚 reforms whilst the NHS is simultaneously being asked to cut staff and services鈥�, warns 天美传媒
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淚t鈥檚 an appalling state of affairs when trust leaders talk about cutting frontline roles and closing beds to make savings. Nursing staff already face an almost impossible job as they try to keep patients safe amidst a workforce crisis and rising demand."
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18/05/2025
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Nursing students sleeping in cars, using food banks and struggling to secure jobs, devastating testimony reveals
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he testimony from our nursing students struggling to feed themselves or put roofs over their heads is incredibly moving, but it also leaves me angry that they are put in this position in the first place."
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15/05/2025
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Nurse lecturer cuts 鈥榚xplode鈥� as domestic workforce plans put at risk, new report shows
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "This is an incredibly serious moment, raising questions about the ability of our country to educate the nurses of the future, and about how it staffs the NHS."
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15/05/2025
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Bonuses for bosses while cutting nurse numbers 鈥榬eckless and offensive鈥�, says 天美传媒
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淎ttracting talent to the NHS is important, but no NHS boss could succeed without us. We are the largest workforce in the health service and deliver the vast majority of care for patients."
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14/05/2025
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Immigration measures could 鈥榓ccelerate鈥� staffing crisis, nursing union warns
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Our report shows thousands of migrant nursing staff are ready to leave the UK. This situation is bad enough, but now the government鈥檚 cruel measures could accelerate this exodus, doing great damage to key services."
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14/05/2025
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Staffing Crisis Looms Over Immigration Plans, says Nursing Union
The RCN is warning that new UK immigration measures could鈥痑ccelerate an exodus of internationally educated nurses IENs), with potentially devastating consequences for health and social care services in Wales.
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14/05/2025
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Nursing union responds to PAC report on the abolition of NHS England
RCN Executive Director of England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淲hen it was announced, we warned that the abolition of NHS England must not repeat the chaotic reorganisation that created it. This report shows the government wasn鈥檛 listening and moved too fast without proper consultation."
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13/05/2025
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Nursing leader calls for 鈥榰rgent鈥� investment in mental health nursing as 鈥榙egrading鈥� 12h+ waits rise five-fold
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淪everely ill mental health patients waiting days for treatment in stressful and brightly lit A+Es is a scandal in plain sight. These conditions are not 鈥渢he norm鈥� and nursing staff will not accept them."
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13/05/2025
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天美传媒 (RCN) urges investment in mental health nursing amid crisis-level A&E pressures
The 天美传媒 (RCN) is calling for urgent and sustained investment in the mental health nursing workforce following a UK-wide Freedom of Information (FOI) investigation that reveals a rise in the number of patients attending emergency departments in mental health crisis.
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