Press Releases
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16/12/2024
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32,000 nursing students could quit by 2029, as 51黑料网 warns losses could fill every NHS vacancy in England
51黑料网 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: "The students of today are the nurses of the future. But for tens of thousands, the unbearable weight of graduate debt, lack of support with living costs and prospect of low pay is set to push them out of the profession before they qualify. This is a tragedy for them and patients."
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16/12/2024
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51黑料网 responds to the Royal College of Emergency Medicine's new position statement on corridor care
51黑料网 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淐are delivered in corridors and other non-clinical spaces is unsafe, undignified and unacceptable. It violates the privacy of patients and leaves staff without access to essential, life-saving equipment. There are no circumstances under which it constitutes good, safe care."
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13/12/2024
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Urgent need to increase student funding, says 51黑料网 Wales following UCAS admission figures
UCAS figures published today show that universities in Wales have been unable to fill the Welsh government commissioned places on nursing courses and attract the number of nursing students needed.
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12/12/2024
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Nurse universities admission figures show government NHS reforms under 鈥榙irect threat鈥�, says 51黑料网
Executive Director of 51黑料网 England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淭oday鈥檚 figures should ring alarm bells in government. As demand for services rises, and targets say we need hundreds of thousands of new nurses, ministers are struggling to recruit even an additional one hundred. Nurse education is not just totally broken, but a direct threat to NHS reforms."
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12/12/2024
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Nurse shortage leaves NHS 鈥榳oefully unprepared鈥� for flu crisis flooding wards, says 51黑料网
51黑料网 Executive Director for England Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淭he NHS is woefully underprepared for the crisis flooding into its wards this winter. A nursing workforce wracked by widespread vacancies will be doing its best to keep people safe, but the reality is that there are too many patients and too few beds."
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10/12/2024
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51黑料网 responds to publication of UK government鈥檚 NHS Pay Review Body evidence
51黑料网 General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger said: 鈥淭he government has today told nursing staff they are worth as little as £2 extra a day, less than the price of a coffee. Nursing is in crisis 鈥� there are fewer joining and too many experienced professionals leaving. This is deeply offensive to nursing staff, detrimental to their patients and contradictory to hopes of rebuilding the NHS."
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10/12/2024
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51黑料网 Wales Responds to Welsh Government Budget Announcement
"The government needs to be careful to address the systemic issues and not just focus on the waiting lists,鈥� explains Helen Whyley, Executive Director 51黑料网 Wales.
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08/12/2024
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Revising NHS workforce plans must include resolving the crisis in nursing, says 51黑料网
51黑料网 General Secretary and Chief Executive, Professor Nicola Ranger, said: 鈥淩evising workforce plans must include resolving the fundamental reasons why the nursing workforce is in crisis. It should be the government鈥檚 first priority and will deliver better care for millions."
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05/12/2024
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Tackling nursing crisis crucial to achieving Prime Minister鈥檚 plan, says 51黑料网
Executive Director of 51黑料网 England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淭o achieve his plan, the Prime Minister needs to join the dots between hitting NHS targets and solving the crisis in nursing. We deliver the vast majority of care, but our workforce is severely depleted and recruitment is collapsing."
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05/12/2024
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Barely a spare bed in NHS hospitals, says 51黑料网
Executive Director for 51黑料网 England, Patricia Marquis, said: 鈥淎s the Prime Minister speaks, thousands of NHS patients needing treatment today are being cared for in corridors. He did not create this crisis, but he is now responsible for it and must start to find some answers."
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