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‘Take the opportunity to make things better’: why mental health nurses should vote ‘yes’ to strike
Mental health nursing is suffering from low pay, staff shortages and burnout – it’s time to tell the UK government that change is needed by voting for strike action, says community mental health nurse Carol
Updated: 11 February 2024 -
Nursing staff cannot be made to wait any longer, RCN says after the UK Government receives Pay Review Body report on NHS pay for 2025/26
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “Ministers cannot leave nursing staff waiting any longer and must now confirm this year’s pay award. Nursing staff and all NHS workers need certainty now. More dither and delay will not wash. "
Updated: 13 September 2025 -
Psychosocial Interventions Programme
Enhancing mental health through compassionate care and support
Updated: 28 July 2025 -
Royal College of Nursing responds to Supreme Court ruling on Indefinite Reporting Restriction Orders
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: “We will take time to fully understand the implications of the judgment of the Supreme Court for our members and the impact on their rights in these very difficult circumstances.”
Updated: 14 September 2025 -
Get more information about the RCN Changing the Conversational Culture Programme
Our Changing the Conversational Culture programme is designed to help participants be effective role models and bring about positive changes whilst promoting a team approach that is inclusive, vibrant, and supported by continuous learning.
Updated: 1 August 2025 -
Health secretary told to ‘get a grip’ as NHS pay award delayed
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: “Nursing staff deliver the vast majority of care in our NHS and are crucial to keeping patients safe, but yet again we won’t see a pay rise arrive on time. The government is failing to deliver the change it promised."
Updated: 30 August 2025 -
Ministers cannot dismiss this as a blip or think they can turn this around without investing in the nursing workforce, Royal College of Nursing responds to the British Social Attitudes Survey on public satisfaction with the NHS
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Public satisfaction with the NHS has sunk to a new low and this will come as little surprise to nursing staff who always want to be able to give outstanding care to those they look after."
Updated: 31 August 2025 -
Government has failed nursing as ministers ditch pay and career reform, says Royal College of Nursing
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The government had a chance to set nursing on a new path, where it's valued, understood and rewarded fairly. It is now clear that ministers and the government are not in fact “on the side of nurses."
Updated: 7 September 2025 -
Every Nurse an eNurse
Our online learning is a two-part introduction to the ways technologies are changing health and social care.
Updated: 5 May 2023 -
Compassionate care around dying: The key principles of support
Compassionate Care Around-Dying: The key principles of support
Updated: 19 October 2025
