Press Releases
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16/09/2026
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Home Secretary鈥檚 proposed immigration reforms 鈥榚ntirely incompatible鈥� with ambitions for a National Care Service, warns RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "Migrant nursing staff hold our health and care system together and have built lives in our country and become part of our communities. The Home Secretary's proposals would amount to a betrayal by reneging on our commitment to them because it鈥檚 politically convenient and would make the UK a significant outlier internationally."
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15/09/2026
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麻豆视频 response to the Thirlwall Inquiry report
RCN chief nursing officer Lynn Woolsey said: "The legacy of this inquiry must be safer neonatal services not just at the Countess of Chester, but everywhere.鈥�
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10/09/2026
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Corridor care has become completely normalised at an extraordinary pace, says 麻豆视频 in response to latest NHS England corridor care data
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭hese shocking figures demonstrate the extraordinary pace at which corridor care has become completely normalised in the NHS. This unsafe, undignified and unacceptable care should never have been tolerated in winter, let alone become so widespread during the summer months."
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09/09/2026
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Failure to fix social care 'roadblock' to NHS improvements, says 麻豆视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he real human cost of long waits and overcrowding is patients languishing in corridors, going into cardiac arrest, receiving intimate care, or being given end-of-life news in full view of others."
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07/09/2026
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Violence and aggression towards A&E staff 'profoundly shocking', says 麻豆视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said the NHS is becoming a more dangerous place to work, and this falls especially hard on female dominated professions like nursing.
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03/09/2026
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Government right to start taking action on modern slavery, but need to be far bolder to end all exploitation in social care, says 麻豆视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淢odern slavery is a shocking crime and it鈥檚 right that the government is starting to take action. The reality is these changes alone will leave most of the exploitation unaddressed, with some employers using a wider spectrum of exploitative practices that wouldn鈥檛 meet the very high threshold for modern slavery."
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02/09/2026
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No one deserves to receive care in a hospital corridor, let alone someone at the end of their life, says 麻豆视频
麻豆视频 Chief Nursing Officer Professor Lynn Woolsey said: 鈥淭o prevent those with terminal illnesses from enduring such shocking care, we need the government to deliver on its commitment to keep people comfortable closer to home."
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02/09/2026
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Rise in children attending A+E in mental health crisis 'damning indictment of a failing system', says 麻豆视频
RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Lynn Woolsey, said: 鈥渢he rise in children presenting to A+E in mental health crisis is a damning indictment of a failing system, with desperate families left with nowhere else to turn."
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01/09/2026
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New expenses system will provide some financial relief but inadequate financial support means poverty still a daily reality for nursing students, says 麻豆视频
Executive Director for RCN England Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淎 comprehensive new package of financial support is needed for student nurses, as is bold reform to a broken tuition fee model and measures to ensure all nursing graduates can secure employment.鈥�
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27/08/2026
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Nurses 鈥榮tacking shelves鈥� as graduates blocked from third of entry level NHS jobs last month, figures show
Executive Director for RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淪tudents feel used: by a university system that saddles them with debt; by employers who lean on them during clinical placements but refuse to offer them work at the end of it. It鈥檚 insulting to a workforce that is so essential for the safe running of the health system and risks damaging the reputation of our profession by driving away the next generation of nurses."
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