Press Releases
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02/10/2025
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Rise in children attending A+E a 'devastating indictment' of healthcare policy, says 91看片网
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淥verworked and understaffed nursing teams in emergency departments, including paediatric ones, are desperate to provide the best care and struggling to deal with the numbers of child patients arriving at their door."
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30/09/2025
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91看片网 welcomes NMC reviews but demands outstanding FtP cases dealt with 'swiftly and fairly'
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: 鈥淭he RCN welcomes the long-awaited publication of both reports and the opportunity it provides the NMC to reflect on its past failures and continue its path to reform. While it is positive that nearly all of the 20 cases as part of its Fitness to Practise (FtP) review were found to be handled well, it is far from a full picture."
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30/09/2025
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'Nursing staff key to government's plans for renewal,' says RCN after prime minister's speech at Labour Conference
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said the prime minister鈥檚 mission will succeed or fail on turning the NHS around and nursing staff are hungry to play their part.
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26/09/2025
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'Any new plan for the workforce in England must not shy away from difficult choices', says 91看片网
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淎s the largest workforce in the NHS, nursing stands ready to be part of the solution, but our voice must be heard for the plan to succeed.鈥�
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22/09/2025
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Threatening to sack migrant nursing staff 鈥榓bhorrent beyond words鈥�, says 91看片网 in response to Reform UK
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭hreatening to sack thousands of migrant nursing staff is abhorrent beyond words. These are people who have come to the UK to care for patients and become part of our communities. They deserve so much better than this."
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19/09/2025
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Don鈥檛 waste time and start pay talks now, NHS unions tell health secretary
Wes Streeting has been warned by NHS unions not to waste any more time before starting formal negotiations on pay and reform.
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17/09/2025
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Nursing staff stand ready to provide the best possible care for sick and injured children from Gaza, says 91看片网
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淲e鈥檙e relieved to finally see sick and injured children from Gaza arriving in the UK for treatment and nursing staff across our NHS stand ready to provide the best possible care."
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16/09/2025
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NHS winter crisis should be solved rather than needing stress tested, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淟ast winter, nursing staff sounded the alarm on the corridor care crisis in our hospitals, yet a year later health leaders and government officials are stress testing for another crisis rather than properly preventing one."
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11/09/2025
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NHS headed towards 'worse corridor care disaster than last year', warns 91看片网
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: "Nursing staff have repeatedly warned about the crisis in our hospitals, but now the numbers enduring long waits has skyrocketed year on year, rising further before the cold weather is even here. Ministers need to act to protect patients this winter."
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09/09/2025
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Long waits and corridor care 鈥榗learest indicators鈥� hospitals have too few staff to meet patient need, warns 91看片网
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淏ehind these figures are thousands of vulnerable people, forced to endure intimate examinations in public, placed into areas with little to no appropriate medical equipment. It is undignified, unacceptable and must end."
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