Blogs
Read the latest opinions from the RCN in Scotland
27
blog posts
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16 Oct 2024
Strengthening the voice of GP nurses
With a new pay increase finally approved for 2024-25, Jacqui Neil reflects on what we're doing to support general practice nurses.
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15 Oct 2024
Time to highlight Scotland鈥檚 nursing stars
I鈥檓 delighted to see the nominations process for the 2025 Scotland Nurse of the Year Awards open today (15 October). Our Awards are fast becoming one of the most positive times in Scotland鈥檚 nursing calendar.
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17 Sep 2024
Corridor care must be eradicated, not normalised
It鈥檚 World Patient Safety Day, and as winter approaches Colin Poolman outlines why the unsafe practice of 鈥榗orridor care鈥� must come to an end.
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16 Aug 2024
Improving AfC - one step at a time
The Agenda for Change (AfC) pay scheme came into operation at the end of 2004. Twenty years on and the cracks in the system are widening every year.
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20 Jun 2024
Time to value nursing
It鈥檚 no secret that, since the inception of the Agenda for Change job evaluation scheme, the clinical skills, knowledge and responsibilities of many band 5 nursing staff have evolved and grown substantially.
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10 May 2024
I know many of you will be holding activities today and over the weekend to mark Nurses鈥� Day.
I know many of you will be holding activities today and over the weekend to mark Nurses鈥� Day.
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28 Mar 2024
We must make sure the opportunity is not missed
I know I鈥檓 not the only RCN member working in the NHS who has been feeling frustrated at the delay in putting the Agenda for Change review recommendations into practice. Many of you have expressed your frustration to me and on social media.
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