Twenty-five thousand registered nurses left last year – a sharp rise on the year before, at the very moment we cannot afford to lose a single individual. “It is your professional duty to be concerned about unsafe staffing and we have your back. If there was ever a time to break this cycle – it is now. Today, members are letting the full truth be known - nursing is saying loud and clear that enough is enough. “Don’t ever think that it is normal to not have enough staff to meet the needs of patients. It shows the shortages that force you to go even more than the extra mile and that, when the shortages are greatest, you are forced to leave patient care undone.
“Our new report lays bare the state of health and care services across the UK. Speaking about the report, Pat Cullen will say in her speech to RCN members: The College will today hear how its members’ experiences demonstrate the risk posed to patient care and call on members to be vigilant in sounding the alarm in their care settings. Research from the University of Southampton found the hazard of death increased by 3% for every day a patient experienced a registered nurse staffing shortage. These findings add to the growing evidence around the increased risk that comes with below planned registered nurse staffing levels.
The findings show that only a quarter (25%) of shifts had the planned number of registered nurses, a sharp fall from 42% in 2020 and 45% five years ago, in 2017. This has increased from less than three quarters of respondents (73%) in 2020.
The College’s survey of nursing staff received over 20,000 responses, revealing that for over eight in 10 (83%) the staffing levels on their last shift were not sufficient to meet all the needs and dependency of their patients safely and effectively. She will call for action and say the shortages pose a risk to patient care.Īt the College’s first in-person Congress since the pandemic, over 2,000 frontline nursing staff will participate in the event in Glasgow to address the issues facing the profession. In her keynote address to the RCN’s Congress in Glasgow on Monday, the College’s General Secretary and Chief Executive Pat Cullen will speak to nurses’ growing concerns over patient safety. New findings from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) released today for the start of its annual conference shine a light on the impact of the UK’s nursing staff shortage. The findings show that only a quarter (25%) of shifts had the planned number of registered nurses on shift.Eight in 10 (83%) said that the staffing levels on their last shift were not sufficient to meet the needs of patients.The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) report further exposes the crisis in nursing, its Congress will hear of the risk to patient care.
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