Press Releases
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06/10/2023
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Rise in cost of health and care visa 鈥榙ivisive and short-sighted鈥�, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen says: 鈥淭hese fee increases will make the UK a less attractive place to live and work for the nurses and other health professionals who make vital contributions to our health and care sector every day."
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04/10/2023
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天美传媒 responds to Prime Minister's speech
Responding to the Prime Minister's speech at the Conservative Party Conference, 天美传媒 Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he Prime Minister鈥檚 plans for the NHS are at risk of being derailed by the nurse shortage he is still not addressing. After giving nurses the worst pay deal in the public sector, they will also be questioning tonight why they are being left out of the bonus scheme now being offered to others too. Nurses need to become a priority for government investment if the Prime Minister hopes to turnaround the record number of unfilled nurse jobs."
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03/10/2023
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天美传媒 responds to Health and Social Care Secretary's speech
Responding to the Health and Social Care Secretary's speech at the Conservative Party Conference, 天美传媒 Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he Health Secretary should not play politics and court controversy at the expense of people鈥檚 health and good care, including plans that can actively deter trans individuals from accessing services."
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28/09/2023
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天美传媒 responds to Nuffield Trust analysis
天美传媒 Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: 鈥淭he 天美传媒 has long advocated for a loan forgiveness scheme for nursing staff to boost recruitment and retention to the public sector nursing workforce. Many people choose to become a nurse so that they can help care for some of the sickest and most vulnerable people in our society 鈥� and it is wrong that they should be saddled with, on average, almost £50,000 of debt."
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28/09/2023
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天美传媒 and Active Care Group sign partnership learning agreement
The learning and development of nursing staff working in the independent sector took a step forward today with a new partnership between the 天美传媒 (RCN) and Active Care Group. The two organisations have signed a partnership learning agreement which will support the creation of up to ten RCN learning representative roles at Active Care Group.
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26/09/2023
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RCN Wales publishes Nursing in Numbers 2023 report
The 天美传媒 (RCN) Wales today published its annual report on the state of the nursing workforce in Wales, Nursing in Numbers 2023.
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21/09/2023
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天美传媒 responds to fall in nursing courses acceptance rate
RCN Deputy Director for Nursing, Dr Nichola Ashby, said: 鈥淭he UK Government has stumbled at the first hurdle of their NHS Workforce Plan, with 12% fewer people expected to take up nursing courses this year in England. These numbers are not just a sad story for today, but a story for years to come of how the ministers baked future nursing shortages into the NHS."
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19/09/2023
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天美传媒 responds to the minimum service level consultation
RCN Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he RCN has always been responsible in taking safe strike action, with concerns for patient safety at its core. However nursing staff will tell you there are not safe staffing levels on non-strike days - and they are sometimes unable to provide the level of service and care patients need."
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14/09/2023
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天美传媒 responds to new record NHS waiting lists
RCN Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淣urses across the country will be concerned that the Prime Minister has again missed his target to cut waiting times. It鈥檚 bad news for patients - since making his pledge to cut waiting lists in January, they have increased by nearly half a million."
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13/09/2023
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天美传媒 responds to the Health and Social Care Secretary and Prime Minister meeting on NHS winter pressures
RCN Chief Nurse, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淲e need to have a long-term conversation of how we protect the NHS whatever the time of year so we do not need to reach this point every winter, investing in the nursing workforce must be at the heart of this.鈥�
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