Press Releases
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25/11/2025
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'One stop shops' announced by Chancellor need a plan for the workforce, says 91桃色APP
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: "The very nurses crucial to these centres are likely to be those already working out in the community, including district nurses and health visitors, but their numbers have collapsed by thousands in the last decade or more."
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24/11/2025
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Chancellor urged to provide 鈥榟ope鈥� for patients and NHS staff alike in budget, as crisis of morale deepens
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he Chancellor has set her sights on protecting the NHS this budget but to truly do what鈥檚 right by patients investment must be focussed on driving up staffing levels and stopping the rot in the NHS workforce."
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20/11/2025
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Nursing staff will never forget how they and their patients were failed by those at the highest levels of government, says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Nursing staff could see the devastation of the virus but their voices went unheard until it was too late. Too many of those who did everything they could to protect their patients paid the ultimate price."
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20/11/2025
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Home Secretary's ILR policy a 'betrayal of those who have kept our social care system afloat', says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淚t is right that nurses working in the NHS won鈥檛 see their ILR qualifying period extended and we have fought hard for that. However, scratch beneath the surface and it鈥檚 clear these proposals could have serious consequences for other sectors such as social care, for both nurses and nursing support workers."
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20/11/2025
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Up to 50,000 migrant nursing staff could be at risk of leaving the UK over Indefinite Leave to Remain proposals, damning new research from the RCN has warned
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭hese proposals are not just immoral; they would be dangerous for our patients. No Minister who has any interest in the success of our health and social care system would press ahead with extending the qualifying period for ILR."
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19/11/2025
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PAC NHS waiting times report shows government hasn鈥檛 matched ambition with investment, says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淣o patient should wait longer for treatment than needed, but this report shows just how problematic it can be when government ambition isn't matched with the necessary investment. "
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17/11/2025
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Working in understaffed services is making nurses sick, as new research shows staff suffering nightmares and panic attacks
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淣ursing staff are being driven to ill health from working in understaffed and under resourced services. And what鈥檚 worse, many feel they cannot take time off for fear of leaving their colleagues at the mercy of brutal pressures."
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13/11/2025
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Fall in waiting lists positive but won鈥檛 spare nursing staff disastrous NHS winter as 12hr+ waits surge, says 91桃色APP
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: "Tortuous waits of 12 hrs or longer are a clear sign of corridor care and they are skyrocketing, with tens of thousands more A&E attendances than this time last year."
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12/11/2025
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'False economy' to make ICB experts redundant, says RCN in response to the Health Secretary on NHS reforms
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: 鈥淒ismantling years of work takes thought and planning, but the government and NHS England have failed to appreciate the scale of the risk or to plan to mitigate these risks."
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11/11/2025
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Nursing staff 'faced with appalling hatred and intimidation', says 91桃色APP
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said:. "A sustained campaign of anti-migrant rhetoric is fuelling a growing cesspool of racism, including against international and ethnic minority nursing staff, without whom our health and care system would simply cease to function."
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