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Share your views on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill
We need your voice to inform the RCN’s influencing work on the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill.
Updated: 3 February 2025 -
Ambitious and funded actions required from the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce
RCN Scotland has pressed the new Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care to ensure the Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce recommendations reflect our priorities for action.
Updated: 16 August 2024 -
Nurses in Scotland recognised in New Year honours
Nursing's outstanding contribution in health and care in Scotland recognised
Updated: 31 May 2025 -
RCN Scotland calls for the Scottish COVID inquiry to consider Long COVID
We have written to the First Minister calling for the terms of reference for the Scottish COVID Inquiry to be amended explicitly to include the consideration of Long COVID.
Updated: 23 November 2024 -
RCN Scotland calls for a nursing retention strategy as workforce crisis shows little sign of improvement
In our third instalment of ‘The Nursing Workforce in Scotland’ report published today (15 May), it is evident that Scotland’s nursing workforce crisis is showing little sign of improvement.
Updated: 13 October 2024 -
Agenda for Change review’s recommendations to be fully implemented
Cabinet Secretary for NHS Recovery, Health and Social Care Neil Gray MSP gave the green light for implementation to begin from 1 April in a letter to the joint health trade unions and NHS employers.
Updated: 30 July 2024 -
Lack of explicit funding in budget for Nursing and Midwifery Taskforce recommendations is 'disappointing'
On 4 December the Cabinet Secretary for Finance set out the draft Scottish budget for 2025-26.
Updated: 5 May 2025 -
Share your views on safe staffing
Scotland’s safe staffing legislation - the Health and Care (Staffing) (Scotland) Act 2019 – came into force last month. We want to understand and measure the impact of the Act.
Updated: 1 December 2024 -
NHS Scotland pay consultation opens today
RCN Scotland is consulting members working in the NHS on whether they accept or reject the 5.5% pay offer.
Updated: 22 April 2025 -
RCN urges new First Minister to prioritise urgent action to tackle health and care crisis
As the new First Minister comes into post, RCN Scotland is calling on the Scottish government to get to grips with the workforce crisis that is facing our health and social care services and focus on delivering safe and effective care for the people of Scotland.
Updated: 6 October 2024
