Susan Masters

Our updated Nursing Workforce Standards are designed to empower you to tackle the challenges you face in providing safe and effective care.

Explore how you can use them to advocate for yourself, your team, and your patients. ➡️ buff.ly/JZskAgW

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3.6% - is it enough?

Get ready to have your say.

Our consultations on the latest pay award for nursing staff on Agenda for Change working in the NHS in England and Wales open on 9 June.

Check your details are up to date ✅ bit.ly/43QFvwL

Congratulations to Matthew Stewart, who has just received an Award of Merit at RCN Congress, Liverpool. I’m delighted for Matthew. His work has, and is, making a real difference and we are very proud of him. This award is absolutely deserved, and we are delighted he has been recognised in this way.

Great to be back at Congress here in wonderful Liverpool - I remember my first Congress here as a student, lovely to come as a fully fledged nurse with a great career 7/8 yrs later - #RCN25 @rcn.org.uk

A quote card from Nicola Ranger: Thank you for bringing your skills to this country. I’m telling [the UK government]: Give people the security, respect and stability they need. Stop the game playing.

Professor Nicola Ranger, General Secretary & Chief Executive, is delivering her keynote address to thousands of members at #RCN25 today. She will tell our internationally educated members what the RCN is demanding the UK government do to properly value their contribution to health and care services.

YouTube video by RCN International Nurses' Day 2025

Nursing staff make the best moments of someone’s life possible, and the worst moments bearable.

Join us in celebrating nursing staff everywhere – watch and share our film, and tell us why you agree nursing is worth fighting for.

#InternationalNursesDay
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Nurses' Day 2025 | Royal College of Nursing On International Nurses’ Day 2025, join us to celebrate the incredible skill, dedication and impact of nursing.

On International Nurses’ Day, we take the time to celebrate the incredible achievements of nursing. Nurses strength and dedication do not go unnoticed or unappreciated. We see you and we are grateful for you.
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Employment Rights Bill: what does it mean for nursing staff? | RCN Magazine | Royal College of Nursing The RCN is pushing the UK government to improve the working rights of its members and to protect those rights in law

Earlier this week, the government made amendments to the employment rights bill, following RCN lobbying, that will help pave the way to ensuring the nursing profession is properly valued.

Find out what the bill says and how we're influencing it in our updated explainer. ⬇️

"The number of women in our profession is a huge strength."

This #InternationalWomensDay, RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger reflects on the outstanding contribution that women have made - and continue to make - to nursing and health care.

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Let’s Celebrate #internationalwomensday. Together let’s #AccelerateAction for gender equality #IWD25 #womeninscience #stem #forallwomenandgirls #mentorship

Tomorrow is #InternationalWomensDay
We are 134 years! from achieving equity. In many places around the globe, we are moving backward!
#AccelerateAction starts with believing in every girl from the earliest years!
#IWD25
#KeepMarching
#thisgirlcanusehervoice
#thisgirlcanchangetheworld

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The South West RCN team were delighted to welcome our new President @bejoysebastian.bsky.social to meet nursing teams in various settings in Somerset .

1/2 Don't forget to secure your free place at The Value of Nursing in the Digital Age lecture, funded by the RCN Foundation and hosted by the RCN Institute of Nursing Excellence, RCN Research Forum and Clinical Research Nurses sub-committee.

1/2 Attention nurses, student nurses, and nursing associates!

You're invited to the Care Show London - a two-day conference and exhibition event offering invaluable knowledge-sharing, networking and inspiring opportunities for those working in the adult social care sector.

Thankyou to all the nursing teams who spent time with our Chief exec describing their lived experience of providing care in so many varied settings

It was a big day last week presenting my Ten Minute Rule Bill to #ProtectNurse. 💙

I was shocked that anyone can call themselves a nurse! So, my Bill would prevent misuse of the title - enhancing patient safety & ensuring respect for registered nurses.

ICYMI, my recap ⏪📽️

Current RCN elections and appointments | Royal College of Nursing Find out about the current opportunities to get involved with RCN committees or boards.

Nominations have opened for the South West seat on the RCN Nursing Support Workers' Committee. You have until 17 February to put in a nomination. Why not put yourself forward to represent you and your peers at national level? Find out more here: www.rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved...

Tributes to ‘beautiful’ nurse lecturer killed in Plymouth street attack Claire Butler, a senior university lecturer on nursing, was found dying from injuries in the Plymouth street colse to her new apartment

My heart goes out to family and friends, so very sad to hear of the death of this nurse in Plymouth .

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Last week RCN South West member, Matthew Stewart, spoke to ITV Westcountry about 'corridor care'. Matthew has been involved in the College's work to challenge the practice of providing care in inappropriate paces since bringing it to Congress 23 www.itv.com/news/westcou...

Raising concerns about care in inappropriate settings Find resources on our hub

Patients being treated in corridors is widespread, but it must not be normalised.

If you're having to deliver care in inappropriate settings, raising a concern with your employer will help protect you and your patients.

Learn more: https://buff.ly/4jfYJSj

Review of 2024 | Blog | Royal College of Nursing

Our IHSC Lead Sarah Winfield-Davies looks back on a busy year in the region www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...

This time can be really hard for many for a host of reasons so, whether you celebrate or not, as you navigate winter pressures, family commitments, caring responsibilities and everything else, I hope you are able to tap into at least a bit of peace and joy 🎄

Join us this evening at 6pm. There's still time to sign-up @thercn.bsky.social members and none members welcome #RCNNRN #NurseSky

‘A call for nursing voices in shaping the 10-year plan’ Last month, I took part in a panel discussion during the 2024 Nursing Times Workforce Summit in ...

‘A call for nursing voices in shaping the 10-year plan’

Lucy Gillespie, from Skills for Care, encourages nursing colleagues to get their voice heard and take part in a major consultation on government health and social care policy. #nurse #socialcare #workforce

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Quote from Professor Nicola Ranger reads: We pulled out of the PRB process, alongside other unions, because it is not the route to address the current crisis. That has been demonstrated today. Fair pay must be matched by structural reform. Let’s open direct talks now and avoid further escalation to disputes and ballots – I have said that directly to government today.

Today the UK government recommended a pay increase of 2.8% for nursing staff in 2025/26, as little as £2 extra a day.

This is deeply offensive, detrimental to patients & contradictory to hopes of rebuilding the NHS.

We are calling for direct negotiations on pay - our full response: bit.ly/49Dn28s

New Chair and Vice Chair of RCN Council elected | News | Royal College of Nursing Carmel O’Boyle will lead the RCN's governing body with Natalie Brooks elected as Vice Chair, from January 2025.

🆕 | New Chair and Vice Chair of RCN Council have been elected. Carmel O’Boyle will lead our governing body with Natalie Brooks elected as Vice Chair.

Find out more in our latest member news story ⬇️

We love nursing , society loves, respects and values nursing - we need this government to show they value us.

Quote card from Patricia Marquis, Executive Director of RCN England which says: For patients to feel that the NHS is improving over the next five years, the government must prioritise fixing the crisis in nursing. A fairly paid and safely staffed nursing workforce would transform care and positively impact the lives of millions.

Investment in nursing is key to achieving the Prime Minister's plan to cut NHS waiting lists.

His Plan for Change needs a plan to turn our profession around.

Read our response to today's speech from the Prime Minister: bit.ly/3ZkEmKI