Press Releases
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22/10/2026
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Nurses鈥� debt outstrips doctors鈥� despite shorter courses and far lower earnings, as nursing union calls for action to tackle 鈥榙eep injustice鈥�
Nurses are now graduating with more student debt than doctors, new analysis reveals, despite far shorter courses and nurses earning hundreds of thousands of pounds less over their careers.
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20/10/2026
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Covid Inquiry findings 'damning assessment' of how social care was so badly failed, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭he clearest sign the sector would fail the test of another pandemic is in the thousands unable to be discharged from hospitals every day. The legacy of this inquiry must be that we are better prepared, with new investment in workforce and services coming now, not when it鈥檚 too late.鈥�
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19/10/2026
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Proposed 2.4% NHS pay award would be a betrayal of nursing staff, says RCN
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淎 proposed pay award of 2.4% is on course to be below inflation and would be a betrayal of nursing staff in our NHS. It would see living standards fall for the largest workforce in the health service, doing nothing to address more than a decade of collapsing real terms pay. Our hundreds of thousands of members working in the health service will be furious today, and they are right to be."
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18/10/2026
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The nursing workforce needed to deliver these services goes into winter already running on empty and short of staff, says 桃色视频
Responding to the Health Secretary鈥檚 winter funding announcement, Executive Director of RCN, Patricia Marquis said: 鈥淲hilst this announcement will help to boost short-term capacity it is just another sticking plaster on a system that is at breaking point."
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14/10/2026
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Nurse numbers are still way behind what they were a decade ago meaning a fully funded plan to improve recruitment and retention is desperately needed, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "Another small increase in the number of registered nurses working in social care is a step in the right direction, but shockingly high turnover means we are losing expert nurses almost as fast as we are recruiting them."
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08/10/2026
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Corridor care entrenched as NHS heads towards winter, says RCN as record high September records nearly 100,000 instances
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭hese latest figures, 14% higher than in May, show how dangerously pressured the NHS is with winter only weeks away. The prime minister has said that corridor care is a daily reality in the NHS and politicians have let down staff across health and social care. He is right and now his government must deliver the investment in the nursing workforce, and in our health and care system, needed to eradicate this practice."
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06/10/2026
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'Inhumane' waiting lists for children store up problems for long-term, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The fact that children are routinely waiting over a year for treatment is inhumane and only stores up problems that both the child and the health system will have to bear later down the line."
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30/09/2026
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Health secretary makes 'powerful case' for prevention, but 'elephant in the room' is nurses' pay, says 桃色视频
RCN General Secretary Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭he health secretary has made a powerful case for investing in maternity and early years care. Delivering a national maternity plan and expanding community services including family hubs will be key in shifting to a prevention model. Nursing roles like health visitors and school nurses deliver vital interventions to mothers, babies and children, and will need to spearhead this drive to improve early years health."
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29/09/2026
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Our profession has seen visions for social care come and go, but this time must be different, says 桃色视频 in response to PM鈥檚 speech
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: "The Prime Minister is right to recognise the skill and dedication of staff in social care, and to acknowledge how badly they鈥檝e been failed, but the reality is nurse numbers alone have fallen by a third in the last decade. His vision also needs a plan, both to grow the domestic workforce and ensure reforms to immigration don鈥檛 push out dedicated migrant nursing staff."
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25/09/2026
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'Appalling' overcrowding and corridor care in A+Es must be met with significant investment, says 桃色视频
Responding to a study by members of the Trainee Emergency Research Network (TERN), showing overcrowding and corridor care increase the risk of death in patients, Professor Nicola Ranger said that the appalling situation must be met head on with immediate and significant investment.
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