Press Releases
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02/11/2023
Press Release
RCN responds to HSSIB report on Caring for adults with a learning disability
RCN Professional Lead for Learning Disability Nursing, Jonathan Beebee, said: “The double-edge sword of a lack of learning disability nursing staff and national guidance on service standards has created an unacceptable level of care. People with learning disabilities are being denied the quality specialist support they deserve."
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01/11/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to claims of misogynistic behaviour in government during the COVID-19 pandemic
Royal College of Nursing Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “As a 90 per cent female profession, nursing staff will find today’s reminders painful. These cavalier and misogynistic attitudes left nursing staff, especially women, at even greater risk and with deadly consequences."
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27/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Health Foundation's analysis of the NHS elective waiting list
Royal College of Nursing Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Ministers will try to use strikes as an excuse for their failure to cut waiting times, but the very reason nursing staff took action is because of the rapid deterioration we witnessed in recent years."
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26/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the latest NHS England Sickness Absence Rates data
Royal College of Nursing Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Burnt out, stressed, and unwell. The government has normalised unacceptable levels of stress for nursing staff working in the NHS."
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25/10/2023
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Government must ensure thousands of general practice nursing staff are given the pay rise they were promised
Royal College of Nursing Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The RCN is unequivocal that all nursing staff working in general practice should receive the same 6% increase in pay as salaried GPs – as the government announced in July. Since that time, it has become clear that this promised increase is at risk for many working in practices that will not receive the full funding."
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25/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Public Accounts Committee report urgent and emergency care
Royal College of Nursing Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Another day, and yet another report into failing NHS services that cannot keep patients safe. Nursing staff have been sounding the siren on staff shortages for years, but the government remains more focused on soundbites than solutions."
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20/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Health Secretary's letter on EDI roles
Royal College of Nursing Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The Health Secretary is playing politics and trying to create a false division - frontline staff know the importance of diversity in leadership, even if this government is shunning it in a culture war."
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20/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to CQC's State of Care report
Royal College of Nursing Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “From the cradle to the grave, this report reveals the shocking state of care. Across maternity, social care, mental health and acute settings, the whole system is in turmoil. Health and care services can no longer be there for us when we need them. This is the damning consequence of ignoring nursing staff and not listening to their warnings about services they work in every day."
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12/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to latest NHS England waiting list data
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “We have heard the opening salvo of the general election in the last ten days and the future of the NHS appears central to all campaigns. All parties must show they have the answers and the funding that meets the challenge shown in these figures."
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12/10/2023
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Royal College of Nursing responds to Skills for Care report
Royal College of Nursing Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “A new workforce plan to recruit and retain staff needs heavy central government investment. Social care is buckling under the pressure of too many people needing support, longstanding underfunding, and consequently not enough nursing staff."
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