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Growing number of flu cases threatens to overwhelm an NHS and workforce already in crisis, Royal College of Nursing responds to latest winter sit-rep data from NHS England
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: “As people prepare for the festivities, nursing staff are battling to hold the service together and are deeply concerned about what the coming weeks will deliver."
Updated: 19 May 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's new position statement on corridor care
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “Care delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable. It violates the privacy of patients and leaves staff without access to essential, life-saving equipment. There are no circumstan...
Updated: 16 May 2025 -
Nurse shortage leaves NHS ‘woefully unprepared’ for flu crisis flooding wards, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: “The NHS is woefully underprepared for the crisis flooding into its wards this winter. A nursing workforce wracked by widespread vacancies will be doing its best to keep people safe, but the reality is that there are too many patients and to...
Updated: 12 May 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to publication of UK government’s NHS Pay Review Body evidence
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: “The government has today told nursing staff they are worth as little as £2 extra a day, less than the price of a coffee. Nursing is in crisis – there are fewer joining and too many experienced professionals leaving. This is dee...
Updated: 10 May 2025 -
Barely a spare bed in NHS hospitals, says Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director for RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “As the Prime Minister speaks, thousands of NHS patients needing treatment today are being cared for in corridors. He did not create this crisis, but he is now responsible for it and must start to find some answers."
Updated: 5 May 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to government decision to repeal anti-strike legislation
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Nursing staff are a safety-critical workforce in health and care services, and when you prevent them from speaking out you put patients at risk. The government is absolutely right to heed our calls to repeal an Act that was h...
Updated: 4 January 2025 -
32,000 nursing students could quit by 2029, as Royal College of Nursing warns losses could fill every NHS vacancy in England
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "The students of today are the nurses of the future. But for tens of thousands, the unbearable weight of graduate debt, lack of support with living costs and prospect of low pay is set to push them out of the profession before t...
Updated: 16 May 2025 -
Nursing recruitment still going backwards, as RCN urges ministers to intervene
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “Every student accepted onto a nursing course today is starting the journey towards an incredible and fulfilling career, but the reality is we need many, many more to do the same. The numbers joining the profession have fallen once again, do...
Updated: 13 January 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to recent far-right race riots
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “Migrant nursing staff are precious members of our communities, hardwired into the very DNA of our health and care services – we ask government to ensure that anybody targeting them pays a very heavy price."
Updated: 3 January 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing launches NHS pay consultation
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said “When it comes to pay in the NHS, all professional groups deserve a clear route to fair pay restoration – starting to make up for a very serious loss of earnings in the last 15 years. Stagnant salaries at a time of spiralling pri...
Updated: 6 January 2025
