The RCN is saddened to announce the death of Peter Davis, who served members in a range of elected roles and made a ...

A proposed 2.4% pay increase in England would do nothing to repair years of lost earnings for nursing staff, the RCN says ...

RCN Northern Ireland has today opened a ballot for industrial action and strike action among nursing staff employed in Health ...

Cabinet Secretary for health, social care and sport agreed to follow our recommendation and begin recording and reporting on ...

NHS staff need a ‘significant and above inflation cost of living’ pay increase, according to the RCN and other health trade unions. The unions this week submitted a pay claim for 2027-28 to the ...

This report highlights the factors contributing to the marked variations in the annual number of newly registered nurses entering the labour market in England in recent decades and pinpoints any ...

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The RCN UK Students Committee has written to NHS England and the Chief Nursing Officer for England Duncan Burton calling for improvements to nursing recruitment practices. The committee says nursing ...

Designed to increase nursing staff awareness of the symptoms of acute limb compartment syndrome (ALCS) and the required monitoring where ALCS is suspected ...

Nursing staff are collapsing on shift and patients are “suffering” in facilities “not fit for humans” amid extreme heat caused by climate change, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) warns today. Scores ...

Extreme heat is making parts of the NHS an “impossible and inhumane” place to work and receive care, the RCN says. We’re calling for an urgent programme to heat-proof facilities across health and care ...