The RCN has pledged to fight employers who attempt to undermine nurses' terms and conditions, citing the collapse of the south west 'pay cartel' as a cautionary example.
Speaking at the RCN...
District nurses should receive mandatory additional training and clarification of their role to ensure the district nursing service remains relevant, a debate at RCN Congress concluded.
Proposing...
RCN Congress passed an emergency resolution to increase its lobbying to protect the NHS from further privatisation just hours before the House of Lords failed to annul the controversial section 75...
Nurses have voted overwhelmingly to retain the RCN’s dual role of Royal College and trade union, agreeing this makes it a more effective organisation. Despite the recommendation made in the...
In an RCN survey of 8,000 members, 90 per cent of respondents reported staffing levels were not always adequate, with almost a third saying they were rarely or never safe. A total of 91 per cent...
Directors of nursing must be prepared to defend nurses that speak out in the media according to RCN general secretary Dr Peter Carter. He said: ‘It takes a remarkable person to be a nurse and...
The recently appointed chair of the RCN’s Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Forum has renewed calls for regulation of ANPs. Nurse partner Wendy Fairhurst told RCN Congress: ‘ANPs often...
Nurses are being prevented from caring for their patients because they are drowning in a sea of paperwork, an ICM survey for the RCN, revealed.The increasing burden of administrative work on nurses...
The government is still considering banning company branding on cigarette packets even though it omitted proposals from the Queen's Speech last week Wednesday.
NHS England is poised to roll out plans to train 100,000 members of the public in basic online skills by 2014, in order to 'reduce health inequalities'.
Living close to a major road may impair kidney function - increasing the risk of heart disease and stroke - suggests research published online in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health.
Prednisolone has been over-used for viral-
induced preschool wheeze and should be used in only severely ill children, write Laura Crosby, Abigail Mee and Siba Prosad Paul
Postmenopausal women taking hormone replacement therapy (HRT) are at increased risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new analysis from the Women's Health Initiative.
Sleep disturbances may undermine semen quality. In a study of 953 Danish men who completed a four-question survey about sleep patterns during the previous four weeks, researchers categorised responses...
Gout and serum uric acid levels independently predict total and cardiovascular mortality, according to a study of 15,773 people aged 20 years or older followed for approximately 10 years.
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