Press Releases
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03/12/2025
Press Release
Corridor care surging in hospitals as nursing staff warn of 鈥榙evastating鈥� winter ahead
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭o consign corridor care to history where it belongs, we need ministers to boost capacity at the front door, delivering new funding to improve staffing levels and the number of beds in hospitals."
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26/11/2025
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Budget 'serious missed opportunity' to tackle nursing crisis with NHS just a 鈥榝ootnote鈥�, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he chancellor pledged to protect the NHS, yet it was just a footnote in today鈥檚 Budget. We desperately needed new funding to boost staffing levels and provide hope to patients, especially as we enter what could be a devastating winter. Simply declaring that there will be 鈥榤ore nurses鈥� won鈥檛 make it so, especially without the funding or plan to make it a reality."
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26/11/2025
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Nurse career regression report 鈥榙amning indictment鈥� of failure to value nursing, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said 鈥淭his report is a damning indictment of the way nursing is so chronically undervalued. Rather than being recognised as the expert clinicians they are, highly-skilled and experienced nurses are routinely pushed into lower paid, less senior roles."
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25/11/2025
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'One stop shops' announced by Chancellor need a plan for the workforce, says 桃色视频
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 桃色视频
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 桃色视频
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 桃色视频
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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