Press Releases
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25/10/2024
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to CQC’s annual State of Care report
Responding to CQC’s State of Care report, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “This broad and damning report supports the view of Ministers that the NHS is broken. Taking responsibility for fixing it will be tough but cannot start soon enough. "
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23/10/2024
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to figures showing over one million 12-hour A&E waits this year
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Dangerously long waits have become normalised in our NHS, whilst nursing staff are forced to deliver unsafe care in corridors. They are overworked, understaffed and professionally demoralised. The government needs to step in ahead of winter and prevent this patient safety crisis worsening."
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21/10/2024
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to launch of government’s NHS 10 Year Plan engagement exercise
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Nursing staff deliver the vast majority of care in the NHS and they know better than anyone how to make services better for patients. The government’s ambitions are the right ones, but to work they will require the expertise of our profession."
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20/10/2024
Press Release
Royal College of Nursing responds to health secretary’s pledge to ‘rebuild the health service’ ahead of NHS 10 Year Plan launch
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “A fundamental shift from hospital to community is crucial, but the reality is that today’s NHS simply does not have the nursing numbers to deliver it. Without new investment, the number of community nurses will stay on track to be half what it was two decades ago."
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