🔴 What exactly has the Westminster government announced for NHS nurses in England currently working at band 5?
🔴 How will it be funded?
🔴 When do the reviews begin?
Read our explainer to find all the details on these new commitments to nursing.
Delighted to be here in Yokohama, where the Japanese Nursing Association are hosting the ICN International Workforce Forum. #IWFF2026 @howardcatton.bsky.social
03.02.2026 01:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Please find out more about the work of the RCN’s Institute of Nursing Excellence by reading this blog & checking out our report on 2025 @rcn.org.uk
26.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Did you work as a Clinical Research Nurse in the UK up until the year 2000?
We are interested in speaking with nurses who worked as Clinical Research Nurses prior to the year 2000 for an oral history study.
If you are interested please contact
helenc.jones@nhs.net or gordon.hill@gcu.ac.uk
Great to be at the Leadership Academy hosted event for chief nurses and deputies. @billypalmer.bsky.social shows the huge variation in skill mix across NHS trusts. 5-fold variation in the RN: support workforce ratio. @rcn.org.uk @emilymcwhirter.bsky.social
26.01.2026 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Great to be at the Leadership Academy hosted event for chief nurses and deputies. @billypalmer.bsky.social shows the huge variation in skill mix across NHS trusts. 5-fold variation in the RN: support workforce ratio. @rcn.org.uk @emilymcwhirter.bsky.social
26.01.2026 11:32 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Please find out more about the work of the RCN’s Institute of Nursing Excellence by reading this blog & checking out our report on 2025 @rcn.org.uk
26.01.2026 11:27 — 👍 3 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
But this is only the beginning. The Institute is more than a set of programmes. It’s a movement.
As the pressures on nursing remain relentless, read about how we will build on these successes to tackle the most complex and persistent issues in 2026 & beyond in @janeeball.bsky.social's latest blog.
People… nursing people.. have power - we need to use it well
22.01.2026 06:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Indexicality lesson for students and others who submit attachments. You need to label your file with your OWN NAME, not "Chapter 6" or "Paris conference presentation". The Paris conference will receive 400 files, 395 of which will have identical/similar names. Recipe for chaos. #academicsky #PhDchat
04.01.2026 19:53 — 👍 74 🔁 10 💬 6 📌 4
This is such a beautiful painting and such a beautiful idea/intention to have set up this fund.
Have donated x
This is beautiful.
05.01.2026 07:49 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A review of international research on minimum nurse-to-patient ratios and safe staffing legislation from @unisouthampton.bsky.social has strengthened our call for ratios to protect patients and staff from harm to be enshrined in law.
Read more from @janeeball.bsky.social ⬇️
“It’s been a brutal year. I hope we will start to be united about this. If we had legislation on the maximum number of patients per nurse, our nursing budgets couldn’t be cut.”
“Invest in nursing and we can improve patient flow”
Nicola Ranger
#NursingLive
Entirely agree Tom
06.11.2025 11:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
#safestaffing #NursingLive @alisonleary1.bsky.social
06.11.2025 10:23 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The de-professionalisation of nursing is rife…. #NursingLive
06.11.2025 10:21 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Who better to get us to think differently about nursing workforce challenges than the inimitable Prof Alison Leary?
#NursingLive @alisonleary1.bsky.social
@rcn.org.uk
#nursinglive
05.11.2025 16:26 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The RCN’s journey so far to try and eradicate corridor care
05.11.2025 16:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Lena Johnson at #NursingLive
Discussing impact of corridor care (care in the wrong places) on staff.
Almost 10 years ago, I did research at a large acute trust, which showed that job applicants were significantly more likely to be offered B5 RN roles if they were young, white, and female. I wonder whether anything has changed?
01.11.2025 14:10 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
“It’s been a brutal year. I hope we will start to be united about this. If we had legislation on the maximum number of patients per nurse, our nursing budgets couldn’t be cut.”
“Invest in nursing and we can improve patient flow”
Nicola Ranger
#NursingLive
Pay and conditions, career progression - needs radical rethink “Nursing needs to be VALUED” #NursingLive @rcn.org.uk
05.11.2025 10:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
“We need to be united to get nursing the status and resoect it deserves. Nursing is the solution”
Prof Nicola Ranger, General Secretary and Chief Execuitve of @rcn.org.uk #NursingLive
It’s a false economy to think you’re saving money by having fewer nursing staff. When we talk about recruiting more nurses, often we’re met with resistance around costs. However, not investing is what is financially unsustainable….
01.11.2025 09:35 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Delighted to be at #NursingLive at the NEC Birmingham. @rcn.org.uk President Bejoy Sebastian introducing our chief executive, Nicola Ranger
05.11.2025 10:06 — 👍 5 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0It’s a false economy to think you’re saving money by having fewer nursing staff. When we talk about recruiting more nurses, often we’re met with resistance around costs. However, not investing is what is financially unsustainable….
01.11.2025 09:35 — 👍 4 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
