Press Releases
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02/11/2026
Press Release
Paediatric early warning system 'vital' for keeping child patients safe, says 91桃色APP
RCN Chief Nursing Officer, Professor Lynn Woolsey, said: "It will be crucial to ensure there are enough nursing staff, with enough capacity and the necessary training and support, to spot deterioration and use the system effectively."
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02/11/2026
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RCN responds to S Peggie v 91桃色APP employment tribunal decision
The RCN welcomed the decision that it did not discriminate against its member based on her protected beliefs.
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02/11/2026
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Concessions for social care sector right but politics still being put ahead of patients, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淣ursing staff fought hard to see the worst of these reforms pared back and it鈥檚 right that the 5-year route to settlement will remain open for most care workers already here. As we called for, it's also incredibly significant that registered nurses from overseas will be recognised for their extraordinary contribution as public servants and remain on a 5-year route to settlement. That's good for migrant nursing staff, patients and our services."
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28/10/2026
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Health Secretary right to listen to nursing staff and scrap Healthwatch England abolition, says 91桃色APP
RCN Director of Policy Amber Jabbal, said: 鈥淭he Health Secretary has rightfully listened to the concerns of nursing staff and chosen to scrap the abolition of Healthwatch England and Local Healthwatch and instead focus on ensuring it plays a more influential role."
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28/10/2026
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Budget treats health as an 'afterthought', says 91桃色APP
Professor Nicola Ranger said the Budget treats health and care as something of an afterthought rather than gripping the crisis staff are facing.
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27/10/2026
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Inequalities laid out in CQC report show just how badly children and young people are being failed, says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said this report shows just how badly children and young people are being failed, with inequal access to services driving long waits and poorer health outcomes
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23/10/2026
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New report into excess heat deaths shows 鈥榙evastating human cost鈥� of climate change and impossible job facing nursing staff, says 91桃色APP
91桃色APP Professional Lead for sustainability Rose Gallagher said: 鈥淓xtreme weather conditions caused by climate change are here to stay and the impact on health cannot continue to be ignored."
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22/10/2026
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Nurses鈥� debt outstrips doctors鈥� despite shorter courses and far lower earnings, as nursing union calls for action to tackle 鈥榙eep injustice鈥�
Nurses are now graduating with more student debt than doctors, new analysis reveals, despite far shorter courses and nurses earning hundreds of thousands of pounds less over their careers.
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20/10/2026
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Covid Inquiry findings 'damning assessment' of how social care was so badly failed, says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he clearest sign the sector would fail the test of another pandemic is in the thousands unable to be discharged from hospitals every day. The legacy of this inquiry must be that we are better prepared, with new investment in workforce and services coming now, not when it鈥檚 too late.鈥�
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19/10/2026
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Proposed 2.4% NHS pay award would be a betrayal of nursing staff, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淎 proposed pay award of 2.4% is on course to be below inflation and would be a betrayal of nursing staff in our NHS. It would see living standards fall for the largest workforce in the health service, doing nothing to address more than a decade of collapsing real terms pay. Our hundreds of thousands of members working in the health service will be furious today, and they are right to be."
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