Press Releases
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05/12/2025
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‘Dashboard flashing red’ as new international joiners collapse 50% and domestic recruitment stalls, warns RCN
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: “This data shows the nursing profession is potentially entering the worst of all worlds. International recruitment is collapsing, even before further hostile immigration policies come in, while the number of domestic joiners continues to stall."
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04/12/2025
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Patients should not be forced to endure four more years of this as NHS data shows services not ready for winter, warns Â鶹ÊÓƵ
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “These figures show that before the cold weather hits and the flu season peaks, the health service is already struggling to cope with numbers across the board higher than last year."
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03/12/2025
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Corridor care surging in hospitals as nursing staff warn of ‘devastating’ winter ahead
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “To consign corridor care to history where it belongs, we need ministers to boost capacity at the front door, delivering new funding to improve staffing levels and the number of beds in hospitals."
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03/12/2025
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Eradicating corridor care cannot wait any longer, says RCN in response to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting
An RCN spokesperson said: "We're ready to work with the secretary of state and provide our expertise to help eradicate corridor care, but those discussions cannot wait any longer. They need to start now, with a goal of ending this unacceptable practice urgently."
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26/11/2025
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Budget 'serious missed opportunity' to tackle nursing crisis with NHS just a ‘footnote’, says Â鶹ÊÓƵ
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The chancellor pledged to protect the NHS, yet it was just a footnote in today’s Budget. We desperately needed new funding to boost staffing levels and provide hope to patients, especially as we enter what could be a devastating winter. Simply declaring that there will be ‘more nurses’ won’t make it so, especially without the funding or plan to make it a reality."
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26/11/2025
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Nurse career regression report ‘damning indictment’ of failure to value nursing, says Â鶹ÊÓƵ
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said “This report is a damning indictment of the way nursing is so chronically undervalued. Rather than being recognised as the expert clinicians they are, highly-skilled and experienced nurses are routinely pushed into lower paid, less senior roles."
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25/11/2025
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'One stop shops' announced by Chancellor need a plan for the workforce, says Â鶹ÊÓƵ
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: "The very nurses crucial to these centres are likely to be those already working out in the community, including district nurses and health visitors, but their numbers have collapsed by thousands in the last decade or more."
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24/11/2025
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Chancellor urged to provide ‘hope’ for patients and NHS staff alike in budget, as crisis of morale deepens
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: “The Chancellor has set her sights on protecting the NHS this budget but to truly do what’s right by patients investment must be focussed on driving up staffing levels and stopping the rot in the NHS workforce."
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21/11/2025
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RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2025: Annie Clothier recognised for outstanding contribution to vascular care
The Â鶹ÊÓƵ (RCN) has named Annie Clothier, Vascular Clinical Nurse Specialist at Aneurin Bevan University Health Board (ABUHB), as the RCN Wales Nurse of the Year 2025.
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20/11/2025
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Nursing staff will never forget how they and their patients were failed by those at the highest levels of government, says Â鶹ÊÓƵ
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Nursing staff could see the devastation of the virus but their voices went unheard until it was too late. Too many of those who did everything they could to protect their patients paid the ultimate price."
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