Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼🎓✊🏻
@dkell999.bsky.social
Registered Nurse, Trade Unionist and Nursing Activist. RCN Steward & Health and Safety Rep. Chair of RCN Trade Union Committee. Vice Chair of RCN NI Board. Committed to making & improving people’s lives via fair pay, terms & conditions #NurseSky #O4P
Nursing staff don’t step back. They step in. In homes, hospitals, borders. Any time. Any place. Nursing never stops. Join us today to recognise and celebrate the contribution of nursing staff worldwide. 🌏 Today, we say thank you. https://bit.ly/488Kvik #InternationalNursesDay #NursesDay
Over the coming weeks, RCN members can nominate themselves for a number of key leadership roles within the organisation. Explore the roles, the eligibility criteria and key dates for the nomination periods. ⬇️
RCN leadership roles elections 2026 | News | Royal College of Nursing
Members will be able to put themselves forward for positions including President and Chair of Congress
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📅 International Nurses’ Day is back on 12 May! This year, we’re celebrating the contribution of nursing staff, in the UK and across the world. 🌍 Learn more and get involved: https://bit.ly/3Ozh5mN #InternationalNursesDay
International Nurses' Day 2026: celebrating nursing as a global profession | News | Royal College of Nursing
We’re celebrating the remarkable contribution of nursing staff in the UK and across the world. Get ready to celebrate with us on 12 May
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Together with other NHS Unions, we are demanding long-promised talks with the Westminster government about your pay structure. 3.3% is not enough. You are worth more. Find out more and add your name to our open letter ✏️
Unions escalate action with joint letter to challenge 3.3% pay award in England | News | Royal College of Nursing
Fourteen unions have told the Westminster government that NHS staff feel “angry and let down”, and are urging their members to sign the letter
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Our RCN Congress speaker line up includes a clinical psychologist and crisis specialist, an international nursing leader and our General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger. Join us in May to be part of the conversation #RCN26 ➡️ https://bit.ly/40yWJfX
The recent commitments from the Westminster gov't are a vital step to properly valuing the nursing profession. But we know more is needed. We’re encouraging all members across the UK working for the NHS & HSC to explore job evaluation to ensure they’re being paid correctly. ➡️ https://bit.ly/3ORyyXb
Denise Kelly, Chair of the RCN Trade Union Committee, breaks down what it means for members and why it is a positive step forward for nursing structural pay reform ⬇️ (2/2)
We’re taking a big step forward | Royal College of Nursing
Denise Kelly, Chair of the RCN Trade Union Committee, reflects on what commitments to nursing career progression mean and how we go forward, together.
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If you haven’t listened to this yet from @rcn.org.uk Nicola Ranger don’t miss this powerful conversation which brings depth and realism to the table @dkell999.bsky.social @alimully.bsky.social @bejoysebastian.bsky.social
@fabnhsstuff.bsky.social · 7mo agoProfessor Nicola Ranger, leader of the Royal College of Nursing, joins @roylilley1.bsky.social & Niall Dickson 💬 Recruitment crisis 📉 Low morale 📚 Reforming nurse education ⚠️ A warning for the NHS Listen now 👇 www.buzzsprout.com/2489623/epis...
🆕 Together with health unions we’re calling for formal talks on NHS pay reform to begin. The Westminster government must start delivering on its promises. No more time should be wasted. Read more ⬇️
NHS pay in England: ‘We need formal negotiations now’ | News | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN has joined 13 other health unions in calling on the Westminster government to urgently begin promised direct talks on NHS pay reform and future pay awards
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If you are an RCN member and need to contact the advice team, call 📞 0345 772 6100 8.30am - 8.00pm on weekdays 9.00am - 4.00pm on weekends If you would like to JOIN the world's largest union and professional body for NURSING , click the link ⬇️ rcn.org.uk/membership
🆕 | After sustained RCN campaigning, the Health Services Safety Investigations Body has announced an official investigation into corridor care in England. This is an important moment, and wouldn’t have happened without RCN members sharing their experiences of this unacceptable practice. Read more.
Corridor care investigation launches following RCN campaign | News | Royal College of Nursing
Official investigators will consult with staff, patients and families about their experiences of “temporary care environments”
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We asked if 3.6% was enough. In record numbers, RCN members have said it is not. You need to see reform to nursing pay that makes a difference. We’re finished fighting for scraps every year. Ministers must use the summer to reach agreement that will deliver for nursing. Read more: buff.ly/gka9Gli
⏰ Last day to have your say on 3.6% - is it enough? If you’re eligible, make sure you vote before 11.59pm on Sunday when our consultation closes. Make your voice heard: buff.ly/83xmD17
“This is our chance to actually get our voice heard.” Our strength is in our numbers. Use your voice. 🗣️ Is 3.6% enough to value nursing? Join your colleagues and tell governments what you think. You have 5 days left to vote in the consultation. ➡️ bit.ly/47xm0db
Help shape the future of RCN rep roles 🚀 What’s working? What isn't working? How could RCN representatives make a difference in your working life, and in the lives of your colleagues? What are your biggest issues at work? 📋 It takes 5 mins and is fully anonymous. 🔗 surveys.rcn.org.uk/s/6G6BEO/
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Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
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📣 Attention NHS/HSC members in England, Wales and NI 4 days left to Get Out the Vote! 🗣️ Today, can you find one member who hasn't voted yet and convince them to vote? Keep sharing the link: rcn.org.uk/Get-Involved/Have-your-say#pay Keep up the good work 💪
We are SO excited about this! 😍 Are you retired or retiring? Do you have lots of expertise to share? Do you want to explore new routes into RCN activism? If so, this is for you 🫵 www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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3.6% - is it enough? Our consultation for members on Agenda for Change terms and conditions in England, Wales and Northern Ireland is open NOW. Our strength is our numbers, make your voice heard today: buff.ly/SjCj9YV
The UK govt has announced a 3.6% pay award for nursing staff on Agenda for Change in England - an increase that will be swallowed up by inflation. Our consultation will open soon for you to tell us what you think. Only you and your colleagues can decide if it's enough to value nursing. Read more:
Nursing pay: Your England NHS Agenda for Change pay award is here | News | Royal College of Nursing
Is this pay increase enough? Get ready to have your say and check your details are up to date
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🧵1/3 1. The 2025/26 NHS pay award in England and Wales is 3.6%. Northern Ireland have accepted the award but funding is unclear. 2. This award will be entirely swallowed up by inflation (3.5%) and does nothing to change the status quo - where nursing is not valued, too few enter it and too many quit
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Let's supercharge the reach and influence of reps! 🚀 Check out this blog from RCN Trade Union Committee Chair @dkell999.bsky.social on our ambitious plans to build rep power. 💪 Read about our plans and how you can be involved. 👇
Building rep power | Royal College of Nursing
To organise and build our collective power, we need to build our rep presence.
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Unions are vital for everyone at work. This #HeartUnions, become part of the voice of nursing: ✅ Join the RCN: https://www.rcn.org.uk/join-the-rcn/Join ✅ Get active: @rcnactivism.bsky.social ✅ Check out our RCN Reps Subject Guide: https://www.rcn.org.uk/library/Subject-Guides/rcn-reps
It's #HeartUnions week! Are you an RCN member? ❤️ We are over half a million strong ❤️ We represent nursing staff in all settings ❤️ We are leading the conversation ❤️ We are the voice of nursing Join us: https://www.rcn.org.uk/join
We’ve responded to a consultation on the new nursing profiles, led by the NHS Staff Council Job Evaluation Group, calling for further refinement of the Agenda for Change draft profiles for bands 7 to 9. Read more in our latest member news story ⬇️
NHS consultation: 'new draft nursing profiles don’t value clinical expertise' | News | Royal College of Nursing
The RCN is calling for further refinement of the Agenda for Change draft profiles for bands 7 to 9. More differentiation is needed for each band, and the role of reflective practice in nursing leaders...
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Make sure you stay up to date with all the important RCN news and announcements. Check your details on MyRCN here: www.rcn.org.uk/myrcn
Changing patients by vending machines, breaking bad news in corridors or seeing them collapsing in overcrowded spaces: #CorridorCare is undignifying & must not be normalised. A new @rcn.org.uk report shares the experiences of 5,000+ NHS nursing staff. Read it here👇🏾 www.rcn.org.uk/news-and-eve...
Are you currently working in general practice? There's still time to tell us about your pay, terms and conditions. It only takes 10 minutes. ➡️ https://buff.ly/3DLKqVf
Today we've released a devastating report on the crisis of patients being treated in inappropriate settings in our NHS. With over 5000 testimonies from nursing staff, the report reveals how widespread this crisis has become, and how it's putting lives at risk. Read more: https://bit.ly/3WiS8wB
Nicola Ranger launches the RCN Corridor Care Report
RCN General Secretary and Chief Executive Professor Nicola Ranger launches the RCN report on corridor care in the UK.
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The UK government cannot understand the impact of care in corridors on patients, families and staff if it isn't being reported. Alongside a coalition of organisations, we’ve written to Wes Streeting MP and NHS England calling for mandatory reporting. Read more:
Corridor care letter
We've written to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP, and NHS England calling for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces. Bringing together a coalition of health care orgs we're demanding transparent reporting and an end to this unacceptable practice.
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