Press Releases
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13/02/2025
Press Release
Nursing staff tell secretary of state how to deliver NHS reforms
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭he health secretary heard directly from nursing staff about how best to transform our NHS. We are the largest workforce inside the health service, delivering the vast majority of care, and our clinical skills and knowledge are priceless. For the government鈥檚 plan to succeed, our profession must be valued as thinkers as well as do-ers."
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13/02/2025
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Nursing staff face 鈥榠mpossible task鈥� as record numbers wait more than 12 hours for a bed, says 天美传媒
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Hospitals are jam-packed and patients are lining corridors routinely. A fall in waiting lists is welcome but will be of little comfort to the nursing staff trying to keep patients safe under some of the most extreme pressures in NHS history."
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13/02/2025
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UCAS figures 鈥榟ammer blow鈥� to government鈥檚 NHS reforms as applications to study nursing hit new low, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭hese figures are devastating for the nursing profession and a hammer blow for the government鈥檚 planned NHS reforms. Health services are battling with thousands of unfilled nurse jobs, and the horizon looks bleak - the numbers choosing nursing in England have plunged to a record low."
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13/02/2025
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RCN Wales Responds to Latest UCAS Nursing Applicant Figures
The 天美传媒 (RCN) Wales welcomes the latest figures released by the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) for the 2025 nursing application and acceptance cycle.
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10/02/2025
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天美传媒 responds to report on barriers to healthcare degree apprenticeships
RCN Executive Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Health leaders have identified apprenticeships as a means of boosting recruitment into nursing, including for those who cannot afford to take on debt and go to university. However, the findings of this report show the route is failing to help close the gap left by a broken tuition fee model, with trusts lacking the funding to keep up with costs, while limited clinical placements leave NHS England unable to meet its own targets."
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07/02/2025
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天美传媒 responds to public health grant allocations for 25/26
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: 鈥淭he increase in the public health grant is a step in the right direction for the government鈥檚 ambitions to shift towards prevention but short-term funding will not cover for years of cuts, nor help rescue the public health nursing workforce, which has been decimated over the last decade."
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06/02/2025
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No end in sight to the pressures on the wards, warns 天美传媒
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said: "Every day patients are being admitted only to be treated in corridors in unsafe and undignified conditions. This year-round crisis cannot simply be passed over as winter pressures."
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05/02/2025
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天美传媒 responds to Dawn Butler MP introducing Bill to legally protect the title 鈥榥urse鈥�
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淣ursing is a safety critical profession, and the title 鈥榥urse鈥� needs to be protected. Patients deserve to know that when they are being treated by a registered nurse, that they can trust the knowledge, professionalism, and clinical expertise that brings."
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03/02/2025
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Government should solve corridor care crisis within a year if it acts now, public says
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he public and nursing staff can see a tragedy for patients unfolding before their eyes. They know care standards are unacceptable and they want government to act decisively."
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30/01/2025
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天美传媒 responds to the UK Government's NHS Mandate and NHS England's 2025/26 priorities and operational planning guidance
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he health secretary says he wants to get 鈥榖ack to basics鈥�, but the basic truth is you cannot cut waiting times and transform care without tackling the crisis in nursing."
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