Press Releases
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24/09/2025
Press Release
Nurses Demand Action: New RCN Manifesto Sets Agenda for Health and Social Care Reform Ahead of Senedd Election
The 麻豆视频 (RCN) in Wales has today launched a bold manifesto 鈥淪tronger Nursing, Stronger Nation鈥� ahead of the 2026 Senedd election, calling on all political parties to prioritise nursing and patient care as a cornerstone of their campaign platforms.
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22/09/2025
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Threatening to sack migrant nursing staff 鈥榓bhorrent beyond words鈥�, says 麻豆视频 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 麻豆视频
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 麻豆视频
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 麻豆视频
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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04/09/2025
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Nursing staff proud to support the roll out of Martha's rule
RCN Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey said: 鈥淣ursing staff are patients鈥� greatest advocates and they have been proud to support Martha鈥檚 rule. By working together, clinicians, parents and families have not only helped to reduce anxiety but also improve care and advance learning."
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01/09/2025
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Explosion in 12-hour A&E waits shows corridor care is year-round crisis, says RCN in response to new Liberal Democrats' analysis
Executive Director for RCN England Patricia Marquis, said: "An explosion in 12-hour waits is the clearest indicator that corridor care is now a year-round crisis. There has been no respite for understaffed nursing teams during a record summer and they will now be worried about what the coming winter has in store."
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28/08/2025
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'Nurses are best placed to lead innovation and the future of genomics', says 麻豆视频
RCN Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis said nursing staff deliver the vast majority of care and are best placed to lead innovation and shape the future use of genomics.
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