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Empire, racism and the NHS: the history of sickle cell disorder
Dr Grace Redhead explores the vital role nurses played in creating specialist sickle cell services
Updated: 2 April 2023 -
Valuing Nursing in the UK
Despite public support for the nursing profession, governments across the UK are failing to value and support nursing staff. Nursing staff feel undervalued and unsafe, causing an alarming number to leave the profession altogether. This report presents a range of factors which impact retention, as we...
Updated: 15 February 2023 -
Professional nurse advocate standards for education and training programmes and modules
There has been extensive national uptake by education institutions and employer organisations to support, develop and implement the role of the professional nurse advocate (PNA). However, with various providers delivering PNA training, there are notable variances in the delivery and learner experien...
Updated: 7 April 2024 -
Midwifery at the RCN: supporting midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers
This updated leaflet explains how the RCN supports midwives, student midwives and maternity support workers. Membership gives you support in the workplace and access to online resources and the RCN Library and Archives Service, which can help with your continuing professional development. You can al...
Updated: 26 October 2025 -
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Nursing history: 20 icons remembered
Discover how the RCN's nursing history experts are preserving the legacy of brilliant nurses in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography
Updated: 1 April 2023 -
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Nightingale's legacy
With Florence Nightingale’s 200th birthday falling during the COVID-19 pandemic, the reforms she fought for feel more relevant than ever
Updated: 29 July 2023 -
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Celebrating Florence Nightingale
The Florence Nightingale Museum is going the extra mile to celebrate 200 years since the birth of Britain’s most famous nurse
Updated: 1 April 2023 -
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Five decades of debate
Newly digitised library and archive material is letting us relive Congresses past. Former RCN President Maura Buchanan helps us explore how the event has evolved
Updated: 26 March 2025 -
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Nursing history: the first male nurses
Who were the first men on the general nursing register? Dr Stuart Wildman, Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Birmingham, finds out
Updated: 1 April 2023 -
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What emotional qualities make the perfect nurse?
Our new exhibition explores how expectations of nurses have evolved over 150 years
Updated: 1 April 2023
