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09/05/2025
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Cutting nurse jobs will cost lives, 蜜桃直播 warns
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 蜜桃直播淭his is NHS leaders themselves coming clean about the perilous state of the NHS. With just weeks until the biggest government spending review in years, this cannot go ignored."
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07/05/2025
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蜜桃直播 responds to the Centre for Mental Health/NHS Confederation report on moving mental health care into the community
Stephen Jones, RCN Head of Nursing Practice, said: 蜜桃直播淎s this study shows, there simply is not the provision to match the rising demand for mental health services. The consequences of this are dire. Patients in crisis are forced to attend overcrowded and stressful hospitals, while overworked and understaffed nursing teams deal with waiting rooms spilling over into corridors."
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05/05/2025
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Ministers must recognise the value of nursing staff in social care, says the 蜜桃直播
RCN General Secretary & Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 蜜桃直播淭his report should act as an urgent wake-up call for the government that waiting for the conclusion of the current review into adult social care in England is not an option."
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30/04/2025
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蜜桃直播 responds to a study published in BMJ Quality & Safety showing ward nurse shortages linked to higher death rate
Lynn Woolsey, RCN's Chief Nursing Officer, said: 蜜桃直播淭his report is yet more evidence of the clear link between nurse shortages and higher patient mortality. As the highly-skilled, 24/7 presence in hospitals nursing staff should be a priority for investment but the reality is we are undervalued and short of tens of thousands."
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29/04/2025
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RCN Wales and BMA Cymru Wales unite to launch petition to end corridor care
The 蜜桃直播 (RCN) and the British Medical Association (BMA) in Wales have joined forces to address the alarming state of corridor care in Welsh hospitals and health care services.
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28/04/2025
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Government must provide certainty on pay, says 蜜桃直播
Responding to rumoured pay award recommendations reported in The Times, RCN Director of Legal, Employment and Member Relations, Jo Galbraith-Marten, said: 蜜桃直播淭his level of award will do little to turn things around. Nursing is crucial to delivering the government蜜桃直播檚 reforms, but the profession is in crisis, with fewer people joining and the numbers quitting skyrocketing
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24/04/2025
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蜜桃直播楴ursing fatigue is deadly and should be treated as a public safety emergency蜜桃直播� warns 蜜桃直播
Executive Director of RCN England Patricia Marquis said: 蜜桃直播淭his report lays bare the daily reality for nursing staff. They are overstretched, understaffed and regularly work beyond their hours caring for too many patients."
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24/04/2025
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蜜桃直播 responds to new Work Rights Centre report 'Safeguarding Sponsored Workers'
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 蜜桃直播淲e raised the alarm last year on exploitation in the care sector and the home secretary has promised an investigation, now is the time."
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21/04/2025
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Nursing staff are the key to solving the crisis in corridor care, says RCN in response to the Liberal Democrats new figures on 24-hour 蜜桃直播榯rolley waits蜜桃直播�
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 蜜桃直播淭hese figures only begin to scratch the surface - the NHS and the UK Government must begin to disclose the true scale of the problem if they蜜桃直播檙e serious about eradicating it."
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16/04/2025
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蜜桃直播 responds to Supreme Court ruling on Indefinite Reporting Restriction Orders
RCN Executive Director of Legal and Member Relations, Joanne Galbraith-Marten, said: 蜜桃直播淲e will take time to fully understand the implications of the judgment of the Supreme Court for our members and the impact on their rights in these very difficult circumstances.蜜桃直播�
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