Press Releases
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25/07/2023
Press Release
¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ responds to the CQC’s urgent and emergency care survey 2022
Responding to the Care Quality Commission's urgent and emergency care survey 2022, ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: “The Care Quality Commission report lays bare the stark pressures that nurses working in A&E and urgent care departments face every day of the year."
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20/07/2023
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¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ responds to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent
Responding to the Illegal Migration Bill receiving Royal Assent, ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ Chief Nursing Officer, Nicola Ranger, said: “Today marks a backwards step in the way we treat those fleeing persecution. This law will undermine people’s fundamental right, which are enshrined in international law, and have a catastrophic impact on their health and wellbeing."
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14/07/2023
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¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ calls government’s approach to public sector pay ‘cavalier and reckless’ in letter to Health Secretary
The ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ has today written to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care raising concerns about the government’s ‘divisive approach to public sector pay’ and calling it both ‘cavalier and reckless at a time of the greatest industrial unrest the NHS has ever seen.’
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13/07/2023
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¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ responds to the government's acceptance of the Pay Review Bodies' recommendations on public sector pay
¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “The prime minister will have to explain to over a million outraged NHS workers why they are getting the lowest pay rise in the public sector."
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13/07/2023
Press Release
¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ responds to the latest NHS waiting list data
Responding to the latest NHS England waiting list data, ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ Director for England, Patricia Marquis, said: "Even after the government’s astonishing admission last week that waiting lists would continue to grow, nursing staff and patients alike will be deeply concerned by these figures."
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13/07/2023
Press Release
Fewer people applying to study UK nursing courses makes workforce plans harder, says ¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾
¹úÄÚ¾«Æ·ÒÁÈ˾þþþø¾ General Secretary and Chief Executive, Pat Cullen, said: “It is deeply concerning to see the number of people applying to study nursing falling again – a clear result of the way the profession has been treated by those in power."
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