The RCN is running a pilot 'Refer and Reward' scheme in the northern region. Existing RCN members who recruit a new member will receive a voucher worth £10 to spend on RCNXtra, a member discount platform housing more than 3,000 brands, enabling members to treat themselves to anything from fashion and electronics through to wellbeing or even money off their weekly shop.
RCN Northern has warned that planned reductions to bank pay rates for nursing, operating department practitioner and midwifery staff at University Hospitals of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust (UHMBT) could worsen existing staffing pressures and put patient safety at risk.
Durham nursing support worker Kevin Morley has been recognised with Â鶹ÊÓƵ Award of Merit, the highest honour for voluntary service for the Â鶹ÊÓƵ.
Staff at the South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust are worried about the trust’s recent decision to impose a new car parking system from this summer, changing providers to ParkingEye, removing barriers from car parks and installing an automatic numberplate recognition (ANPR) system.
The RCN has raised serious concerns after an admission by North Cumbria Integrated Care NHS Foundation Trust that it failed to adequately fit test respirator masks worn by its theatre staff over a five-week period, subjecting them to serious danger.
Karen Dutton, a Clinical Educator at Cumbria Partnership NHS Foundation Trust has been awarded the RCN’s Award of Merit at the Â鶹ÊÓƵ (RCN) annual Congress in Liverpool.
