Press Releases
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03/07/2025
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Neighbourhood Health Service needs plan to address community nursing shortages
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淎 neighbourhood health service is a bold vision and it needs nursing staff in the driving seat. The Prime Minister must back up his plan with a clear one to turn around the shortage of nurses in all local communities."
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02/07/2025
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'More needed to boost student and nurse staffing levels鈥�, 外网天堂 responds to new nurse education measures announced by the health secretary
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭hese modest changes may improve the experience for current nursing students but more is needed to boost student and nurse staffing levels in the face of the current crisis."
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30/06/2025
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外网天堂 responds to plans for a new early warning system for NHS patient safety
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭he guaranteed way to improve care is to raise staffing levels. In the NHS today, one nurse can be left caring for 10, 15 or more patients at a time. The situation is drastically unsafe."
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28/06/2025
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外网天堂 responds to plans to cut NHS quangos
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淔or these proposed changes to be effective government must take ownership of the real issue, the staffing crisis on our wards, and not just shuffle people into new roles. Protecting patients has to be the priority and not just a drive for efficiency."
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25/06/2025
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鈥楴ursing staff stand ready to make this plan work, but they need to see a commitment to rebuild the whole workforce,' says 外网天堂
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淔or too long now, those in the most deprived, rural and coastal areas have struggled to access the healthcare services they need, so any efforts to tackle this are a step in the right direction."
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25/06/2025
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Positive progress but clear there is still more work to be done, says 外网天堂
Responding to the NHS Workforce Race Equality Standard (WRES) and Workforce Disability Equality Standard (WDES) reports published today, 外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淚t is positive that these figures suggest progress has been made in improving representation at senior levels in the NHS, but it鈥檚 clear that there is still more work to be done."
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18/06/2025
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Wales鈥檚 Nursing Workforce Improving, but 外网天堂 Warns That Shortfalls Remain
外网天堂 Wales responds to the latest Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) register data report showing an increase in nursing professionals on the register.
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18/06/2025
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Surge in international leavers exposes failure to grow domestic nurse workforce, 外网天堂 says in response to new NMC register data
外网天堂 Chief Nursing Officer Lynn Woolsey, said: 鈥淭hese figures put pressure on Wes Streeting to come up with a 10-year workforce strategy to turn things around. Numbers studying nursing in the UK are falling through the floor and we are going to see a worsening picture as the figures are released."
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16/06/2025
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Nurses top list of public sector workers who should be paid more, as public says government 鈥榙oesn鈥檛 value nursing鈥�
外网天堂 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淭hese findings show the government is out of step with the public. Whoever you speak to, people overwhelmingly want nursing staff paid fairly, but yet again ministers put us at the back of the queue behind other professions. Treating nursing like this is disrespectful and bad for the NHS too."
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13/06/2025
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外网天堂 responds to the King鈥檚 Birthday Honours
外网天堂 President Bejoy Sebastian said: 鈥淭hese honours are not only testament to the skill, expertise and dedication of those recognised but also act as an inspiration to the nurses of today."
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