Publications
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13 May 2022
Annual Review of the Year 2021
Publication Code : 010097Annual Review of the Year 2021
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13 May 2022
RCN Group Annual Report
Publication Code : 010092The RCN Group annual report for 2021
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10 May 2022
Progress and Challenge in Delivering Safe and Effective Care 2022
Publication Code : 010 279This RCN Wales report looks at progress in the implementation of the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016. It examines the implementation from an all-Wales perspective in each health board, based on publicly available documents, and indicates the challenges ahead. It follows RCN Wales鈥� 2019 report, Progress and Challenge: The Implementation of the Nurse Staffing Levels (Wales) Act 2016. Available in English and Welsh.
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29 Apr 2022
Tools of the Trade
Publication Code : 010 218Updated RCN guidance for health care staff on glove use and the prevention of work-related dermatitis. In collaboration with Molnlycke and SC Johnson. This publication is currently under review
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14 Apr 2022
Raising the Bar
Publication Code : 010 232In November 2021, the RCN commissioned an independent review to identify and compare international definitions and guidance used to describe standard and transmission-based infection prevention control precautions and reflect on the implications of those for contemporary nursing practice and the introduction of a national infection control manual for England.
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7 Mar 2022
RCN Submission to the NHS Pay Review Body: 2022/23 Pay Round
Publication Code : 010 168This year鈥檚 submission from the RCN to the Pay Review Body sets out the case for a substantial, restorative, pay rise above inflation to address the nursing workforce crisis and the long-term reduction in the value of nursing pay.
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11 Feb 2022
Library and Archive Service quarterly report: October-December 2021.
Publication Code : 010 115Library and Archive Service quarterly report: October-December 2021.
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7 Feb 2022
Staffing for Safe and Effective Care: State of the nation鈥檚 labour nursing market 2022
Publication Code : 010 108This report examines nursing workforce data from January 2020 through the COVID-19 pandemic, to the present day. In the past two years, the complex external context has only highlighted and exacerbated existing, long-standing issues with health and care workforce supply and retention in the UK. This document sets out the nursing workforce picture in the UK 鈥� as far as the limited and inconsistent data allows.
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30 Dec 2021
RCN Employment Survey 2021
Publication Code : 010 075This report provides a summary of findings from a survey of RCN members which was undertaken in October 2021.
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15 Nov 2021
10 Unsustainable Pressures on the Health and Care System in England
Publication Code : 010 047Members of the RCN working across health and social care in England dispute statements that the current situation in health and care is sustainable. Action needs to be taken to retain as many nursing staff as possible in light of serious staffing vacancies, as well as high levels of exhaustion and burnout. On top of this, the system is currently dealing with the immediate challenge of rising COVID-19 cases, intensified pressures as winter approaches and clearing the growing backlog of undelivered care to people in need. The RCN has identified ten areas that currently demonstrate unsustainable, untenable conditions within the health and care system across England. All of these are reliant on nursing.
