Employers must protect nursing staff during heatwave Staff must be allowed to take regular breaks and stay hydrated as temperatures rise, the RCN has said All children in London to be offered dose of polio vaccine The JCVI has recommended that polio vaccine booster doses should be offered to children across London, after the virus was detected in sewage RCN members urged to support industrial action in strike ballot over NHS pay Hundreds of thousands of nursing staff in England and Wales will soon have the chance to vote on whether to take strike action Candidates for RCN President election announced RCN members will choose from four candidates when they vote for the organisation’s new President later this year Number one event for diabetes professionals returns Join us at Diabetes Professional Care, the UK’s number one event for diabetes professionals, returning to Olympia London on 16-17 November 2022 More than 2500 cases of monkeypox reported in the UK Over 2500 cases of monkeypox have now been recorded by the UK Health Security Agency Sharp fall in numbers of pregnant smokers after new NHS drive Almost 15,000 pregnant women in England managed to quit smoking over the last three years, new analysis shows today Outrage as PM hopeful suggests ending national pay deals Frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister Liz Truss briefly suggested that, if elected, she would end national pay deals for public sector staff, a move branded an ‘insult to nursing professionals’ by the RCN Major boost to youth mental health workforce Around 4,500 more people have joined the NHS children’s mental health services in England – 40% more than before the pandemic NHS sets out long COVID action plan Patients with long-lasting symptoms from COVID will have access to more convenient tests and checks closer to home, under new measures announced by NHS England Sharp increase in nursing sickness absences Days lost to sickness absence from COVID-19 among nursing staff jumped dramatically from February to March 2022, data from NHS England has shown Persistent understaffing of NHS a serious risk to patient safety The NHS is facing the greatest workforce crisis in its history, a report by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has found 1 comment Accelerated monkeypox vaccination rollout in London announced The NHS in London, along with local public health teams, will be accelerating the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine from this week, prioritising individuals who are most likely to get the virus Take part in our survey, and you could win £100 in Amazon vouchers! Take our survey, and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher UK opens public inquiry into COVID-19 The inquiry chair, retired High Court judge Baroness Hallett, made a pledge to conclude matters as ‘speedily as possible so lessons are learned before another pandemic strikes’ RCN to ballot members after pay deal proposal NHS staff in England will get a pay increase of at least £1400 for 2022-23, but the RCN has slammed the offer as a real-terms pay cut 1 comment New strategy to tackle gender health gap The Government has published the first ever Women's Health Strategy for England, which aims to reduce disparities in healthcare between men and women Drop in nursing applications cause for concern New figures from UCAS show an 8% fall in applications to UK nursing programmes between 2021 and 2022, sparking concerns from organisations such as the RCN SARS-COV-2: how concerned should we be about new variants? After a a lull, the number of COVID-19 cases is on the up, driven by the two omicron ‘variants of concern’ known as BA.4 and BA.5 MPs vote to approve use of agency staff to cover striking workers The proposed changes to laws on agency workers is an ‘attempt to make strike action ineffective’, the RCN has said 1 comment NHS staff honoured with George Cross presentation Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England has praised the exceptional efforts and skill of health service staff across the country, after being presented the George Cross by The Queen at Windsor Castle New Health Secretary must show support for nursing staff Steve Barclay, the new Secretary of Health and Social Care, must ‘rise above the mayhem’ and offer nurses an immediate pay rise, the RCN has said Health and care staff honoured in annual NHS Parliamentary Awards Healthcare workers providing mobile mental health support, a team fast-tracking cancer care, and a vaccination outreach team, are among the winners of this year’s NHS Parliamentary Awards 1 comment Steve Barclay named as new Health Secretary after Javid resigns Steve Barclay, the former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Downing Street Chief of Staff, has been named as the Health and Social Care Secretary, after previous incumbent Sajid Javid resigned COVID-19 sick pay changes 'neglectful and unfair' The Department of Health and Social Care has announced changes to the way COVID-19-related sickness absence and self-isolation will be managed for NHS staff in England, a move sharply criticised by the RCN and other healthcare organisations
Employers must protect nursing staff during heatwave Staff must be allowed to take regular breaks and stay hydrated as temperatures rise, the RCN has said
All children in London to be offered dose of polio vaccine The JCVI has recommended that polio vaccine booster doses should be offered to children across London, after the virus was detected in sewage
RCN members urged to support industrial action in strike ballot over NHS pay Hundreds of thousands of nursing staff in England and Wales will soon have the chance to vote on whether to take strike action
Candidates for RCN President election announced RCN members will choose from four candidates when they vote for the organisation’s new President later this year
Number one event for diabetes professionals returns Join us at Diabetes Professional Care, the UK’s number one event for diabetes professionals, returning to Olympia London on 16-17 November 2022
More than 2500 cases of monkeypox reported in the UK Over 2500 cases of monkeypox have now been recorded by the UK Health Security Agency
Sharp fall in numbers of pregnant smokers after new NHS drive Almost 15,000 pregnant women in England managed to quit smoking over the last three years, new analysis shows today
Outrage as PM hopeful suggests ending national pay deals Frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister Liz Truss briefly suggested that, if elected, she would end national pay deals for public sector staff, a move branded an ‘insult to nursing professionals’ by the RCN
Major boost to youth mental health workforce Around 4,500 more people have joined the NHS children’s mental health services in England – 40% more than before the pandemic
NHS sets out long COVID action plan Patients with long-lasting symptoms from COVID will have access to more convenient tests and checks closer to home, under new measures announced by NHS England
Sharp increase in nursing sickness absences Days lost to sickness absence from COVID-19 among nursing staff jumped dramatically from February to March 2022, data from NHS England has shown
Persistent understaffing of NHS a serious risk to patient safety The NHS is facing the greatest workforce crisis in its history, a report by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has found 1 comment
Accelerated monkeypox vaccination rollout in London announced The NHS in London, along with local public health teams, will be accelerating the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine from this week, prioritising individuals who are most likely to get the virus
Take part in our survey, and you could win £100 in Amazon vouchers! Take our survey, and you will be entered into a prize draw to win a £100 Amazon voucher
UK opens public inquiry into COVID-19 The inquiry chair, retired High Court judge Baroness Hallett, made a pledge to conclude matters as ‘speedily as possible so lessons are learned before another pandemic strikes’
RCN to ballot members after pay deal proposal NHS staff in England will get a pay increase of at least £1400 for 2022-23, but the RCN has slammed the offer as a real-terms pay cut 1 comment
New strategy to tackle gender health gap The Government has published the first ever Women's Health Strategy for England, which aims to reduce disparities in healthcare between men and women
Drop in nursing applications cause for concern New figures from UCAS show an 8% fall in applications to UK nursing programmes between 2021 and 2022, sparking concerns from organisations such as the RCN
SARS-COV-2: how concerned should we be about new variants? After a a lull, the number of COVID-19 cases is on the up, driven by the two omicron ‘variants of concern’ known as BA.4 and BA.5
MPs vote to approve use of agency staff to cover striking workers The proposed changes to laws on agency workers is an ‘attempt to make strike action ineffective’, the RCN has said 1 comment
NHS staff honoured with George Cross presentation Amanda Pritchard, chief executive of NHS England has praised the exceptional efforts and skill of health service staff across the country, after being presented the George Cross by The Queen at Windsor Castle
New Health Secretary must show support for nursing staff Steve Barclay, the new Secretary of Health and Social Care, must ‘rise above the mayhem’ and offer nurses an immediate pay rise, the RCN has said
Health and care staff honoured in annual NHS Parliamentary Awards Healthcare workers providing mobile mental health support, a team fast-tracking cancer care, and a vaccination outreach team, are among the winners of this year’s NHS Parliamentary Awards 1 comment
Steve Barclay named as new Health Secretary after Javid resigns Steve Barclay, the former Minister for the Cabinet Office and Downing Street Chief of Staff, has been named as the Health and Social Care Secretary, after previous incumbent Sajid Javid resigned
COVID-19 sick pay changes 'neglectful and unfair' The Department of Health and Social Care has announced changes to the way COVID-19-related sickness absence and self-isolation will be managed for NHS staff in England, a move sharply criticised by the RCN and other healthcare organisations