News
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29 Apr 2020
New regional director takes up post
Lindsay Meeks becomes the RCN's regional director for the West Midlands on 1 May.
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28 Feb 2020
RCN urges West Midlands MPs to back urgent action to fix nurse shortage
The RCN is urging MPs across the West Midlands to support ‘urgent and meaningful measures’ to tackle a critical shortage of nurses.
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28 Nov 2019
Nurse shortage now a crisis, says RCN
The shortage of nurses in the Midlands is growing and has been declared as a full-blown crisis by the RCN.
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8 Jul 2019
Treating sickness the healthy way
With the newly-published interim NHS People Plan promising to prioritise the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and promote compassion in how they are managed, a health trust in the West Midlands has already shown how it is realising this vision.
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11 Jun 2019
Children’s hospice closure plan ‘sad’
Plans by charity Acorns to close its children’s hospice in Walsall due to a shortfall in funding have been described as ‘sad’ by the RCN.
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15 Feb 2019
Fancy a trip to RCN Congress in Liverpool?
Apply for free train travel and a hotel stay of one or two nights.
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10 Jan 2019
University award for RCN director
The RCN’s West Midlands Regional Director Mike Adams was today honoured as Birmingham City University’s Alumnus of the Year for 2019.
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5 Dec 2018
Health charge for overseas nurses unjust and risks undermining recruitment and retention, says RCN
Doubling the charge that nurses from overseas have to pay to be allowed to use the NHS as patients is unjust and risks worsening the current shortage of nursing staff in the West Midlands.
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28 Nov 2018
Watch the highlights of our Black History Month celebration
More than 100 delegates attended our popular annual Black History Month conference in October, held this year at the home of West Bromwich Albion FC. Watch our film of the highlights.
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16 May 2018
Get tough on nuisance behaviour, say Birmingham nurses
Nurses in Birmingham are spearheading a call for a ‘zero tolerance’ policy on harassment against health care workers.
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