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Royal College of Nursing

July 2024

  • A nurse walks down a hospital corridor.

    Patients left in pain and to die alone amid NHS nurse shortages, survey finds

    Only a third of shifts have enough nurses on duty, the Royal College of Nursing says its analysis shows

June 2024

  • Medical staff push a patient on a hospital bed along a corridor

    Rise in hospital ‘corridor care’ is national emergency, union warns

    Royal College of Nursing says overcrowding is forcing practice that puts patients at serious risk

May 2024

  • Nurse wearing scrubs walking in a hospital ward

    Almost nine out of 10 nurses in England work when ill, survey finds

    Nurses ‘sacrifice their health and wellbeing’ to help plug gaps in rotas, Royal College of Nurses says

April 2024

  • Busy nurses on an NHS hospital ward

    Nurses in England took an average of one week off sick for stress last year, data shows

    Chronic workforce shortages have put nursing staff under unbearable pressure, says union chief

March 2024

  • A nurse at a workstation in an NHS hospital ward

    Six in 10 nurses in England turning to credit or savings as costs rise

  • Blurry figures walking in a hospital ward

    ‘I can’t do another year like last year’: nurses in England on cost of living crisis

January 2024

  • Medical staff on a hospital ward

    NHS nurses suffering shocking violence from patients, senior nurse warns

    Crisis in NHS contributing to nurses being spat at and punched, leading some to leave the profession, Prof Nicola Ranger says

November 2023

  • A nurse inspects a pregnant woman outside a ward at a maternity hospital renovated by Royal Dutch Shell in Obio district in Nigeria's oil city of Port Harcourt March 24, 2011. REUTERS/Akintunde Akinleye (NIGERIA - Tags: HEALTH) - RTR2KCPZ

    NHS ‘unethical’ in recruiting nurses from short-staffed countries

    Hiring from ‘red-list’ nations risks destabilising healthcare overseas, warns Royal College of Nursing

August 2023

  • Junior doctors protest outside Leeds general infirmary during a four-day strike that began last Friday.

    Landmark NHS recruitment plan in danger from applicant shortfall

    The huge increase in students needed to fill medical training places, and supplying the staff to teach them, may not be feasible

July 2023

  • Junior doctors on the picket line

    Most NHS staff say they don’t have enough time to spend with patients

    Exclusive: UK-wide poll of healthcare workers also reveals 75% believe the quality of care provided is falling

June 2023

  • Pat Cullen

    End to nurses’ strike leaves tensions between Pat Cullen and RCN members

  • Surgeons work in an operating theatre

    Senior doctors’ strike signals fight over NHS pay is just beginning

  • Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, joins protesters outside a hospital in Cardiff

    Nurses fail to vote in sufficient numbers for fresh strikes in England

  • A woman uses a megaphone as nurses and other medical professionals protest over pay and conditions in London in February

    NHS nurses strike in England could reach ‘end of the road’ this week

May 2023

  • Nurses striking in London in May. Photograph: Guy Smallman/Getty Images

    Politics Weekly UK
    NHS strikes: the women taking back control – Politics Weekly UK

  • Pat Cullen, the general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing

    Striking nurses ‘not going away’, says RCN, as other unions meet over pay offer

April 2023

  • Pat Cullen speaks to a media interviewer

    RCN and train drivers’ union dispute ministers’ claims about their strikes

  • Nurses on the picket line outside Great Ormond Street hospital during the RCN’s strike in December last year.

    Nurses’ union makes apparent U-turn over staffing exemptions during strike

  • Nurse on strike outside the Royal Marsden hospital in London on 7 February

    Barclay ‘wasting public money’ with legal action against nursing strike

  • People hold placards during NHS nurses strike

    RCN chief: legal action over nurses’ strikes is ‘blatant threat’

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