Press Releases
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27/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England Workforce and Sickness absence data
Responding to the latest NHS England Workforce and Sickness absence data, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Today's figures show rates of sickness amongst nursing staff remain stubbornly high and are well above pre-pandemic levels. Although the overall sickness rate has trended down slightly since December 2022, there are still far too many days lost due to nursing staff being off sick.
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25/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the CQC’s urgent and emergency care survey 2022
Responding to the Care Quality Commission's urgent and emergency care survey 2022, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The Care Quality Commission report lays bare the stark pressures that nurses working in A&E and urgent care departments face every day of the year."
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25/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Health Foundation report projecting 2.5m more people in England will be living with major illness by 2040
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “This report should act as a wake-up call to a government that has failed to plan properly, and left health and care services without the funding desperately needed."
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20/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent
Responding to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent, RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Nicola Ranger, said: “Today marks a backwards step in the way we treat those fleeing persecution. This law will undermine people’s fundamental right, which are enshrined in international law, and have a catastrophic impact on their health and wellbeing."
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14/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing calls government’s approach to public sector pay ‘cavalier and reckless’ in letter to Health Secretary
The Royal College of Nursing has today written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care raising concerns about the government’s ‘divisive approach to public sector pay’ and calling it both ‘cavalier and reckless at a time of the greatest industrial unrest the NHS has ever seen.’
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13/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the government's acceptance of the Pay Review Bodies' recommendations on public sector pay
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The prime minister will have to explain to over a million outraged NHS workers why they are getting the lowest pay rise in the public sector."
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13/07/2023
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Fewer people applying to study UK nursing courses makes workforce plans harder, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “It is deeply concerning to see the number of people applying to study nursing falling again – a clear result of the way the profession has been treated by those in power."
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13/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to High Court ruling on agency workers and strike action
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “This is a victory for all trade unions and workers including nurses who have already demonstrated their ability to take safe strike action."
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13/07/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS waiting list data
Responding to the latest NHS England waiting list data, RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Even after the government’s astonishing admission last week that waiting lists would continue to grow, nursing staff and patients alike will be deeply concerned by these figures."
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12/07/2023
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RCN Director warns MPs that NHS Workforce Plan is a ‘lofty set of aspirations without any detail’
The NHS Long Term Workforce Plan is a ‘lofty set of aspirations without any detail of how they’ll be delivered’, the RCN’s Director for England Patricia Marquis said today when giving evidence to the Health and Social Care Select Committee.
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