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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻

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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

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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 12/05/2026
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. bit.ly/488Kvik #InternationalNursesDay #NursesDay
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 30/04/2026
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. ⬇️
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 14/04/2026
📅 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: bit.ly/3Ozh5mN #InternationalNursesDay
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 17/03/2026
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 ✏️
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 21/03/2026
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 ➡️ bit.ly/40yWJfX
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 20/02/2026
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. ➡️ bit.ly/3ORyyXb
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 27/02/2026
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)
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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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Terri Porrett @terriporrett.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
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
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 19/09/2025
🆕 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 ⬇️
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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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RCN Lothian and Borders @rcnlandb.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
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
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 26/08/2025
🆕 | 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.
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 31/07/2025
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
A graphic by the Royal College of Nursing stating "NHS and HSC pay consultations result are in: 3.6% is NOT enough," on a blue and yellow background.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 26/07/2025
⏰ 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
Text reads; Our pay. Our say. 1 day to go. 3.6% is it enough?
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 22/07/2025
“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
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RCN Nursing Activism @rcnactivism.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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Help Shape The Future of the RCN in the Workplace
Please take the time to complete our survey. Your feedback is important.
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RCN Nursing Activism @rcnactivism.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
📣 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 💪
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RCN Nursing Activism @rcnactivism.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
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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RCN Retired Members Conference | Royal College of Nursing
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 09/06/2025
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
Text reads: Our pay. Our say. Consultation now open. Have your say on 3.6% today.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 22/05/2025
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:
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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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Katrina Cooper @katrinacooper.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
Nurses and NHS staff at the bottom of the pile. #letsgetloud
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
🧵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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RCN Nursing Activism @rcnactivism.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
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. 👇
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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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Royal College of Nursing Library and Museum @rcnlibraries.bsky.social · 10/02/2025
Unions are vital for everyone at work. This #HeartUnions, become part of the voice of nursing: ✅ Join the RCN: www.rcn.org.uk/join-the-rcn/Join ✅ Get active: @rcnactivism.bsky.social ✅ Check out our RCN Reps Subject Guide: www.rcn.org.uk/library/Subject-Guid…
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 10/02/2025
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: www.rcn.org.uk/join
Members of the Royal College of Nursing participate in a demonstration, holding signs for fair pay and safe staffing. Text reads: 'HeartUnions' week 10-16 February 2025.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 27/01/2025
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 ⬇️
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 28/01/2025
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
Check your details:
. Email
. Employer
. Workplace
. Mobile
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EPSU @epsu.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
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...
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 23/01/2025
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. ➡️ buff.ly/3DLKqVf
Square graphic. Text reads: "General practice nursing staff. Do you feel better or worse off financially than you did five years ago? Take our quick survey on your pay."
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 16/01/2025
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: bit.ly/3WiS8wB
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 13/01/2025
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:
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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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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 13/01/2025
We've written to the Health Secretary Wes Streeting MP, and NHS England calling for an end to treating patients in unsafe spaces. After pressure from the RCN & a coalition of partners, NHS England has indicated they will begin to report cases of corridor care this month. ⬇️ buff.ly/3DPPpV2
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Corridor care: RCN-led coalition demands transparency and mandatory reporting | News | Royal College of Nursing
The UK government must urgently tackle the issue of care in corridors, cupboards and car parks and introduce mandatory reporting to improve patient care and experience as we bring together a…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
Without trade unions we wouldn’t have • a minimum wage • maternity & paternity rights • pension provision • holiday & sickness entitlements victories which have benefited every single person in this country Join a union👇 www.tuc.org.uk/joinunion youtu.be/jg0D2yNiqHM?...
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Let’s make Jacob’s day and join a union today
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 11/01/2025
The UK government told the PRB it suggests just a 2.8% pay increase for nursing next year. The NHS PRB process is outdated. Alongside UNISON and Unite, we are calling for direct negotiations on NHS pay. Find out the details and sign our letter: buff.ly/3VDEkfN
Tell your MP: It's time for fair pay for nursing.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 06/01/2025
Northern Ireland members, you have until 12 noon on Thursday 9 January 2025 to have your say on HSC pay. Find out more ⬇️
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
‼️RCN NI HSC members - You have just two days left to make your voice heard and vote in our pay consultation. It is more important now than ever for you to tell us what you think. Vote here: www.rcn.org.uk/myrcn/Northe...
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 29/12/2024
What did we achieve in 2024? ☑️ Securing the pay rises our members deserve through job evaluations ☑️ Launched the RCN Activist Academy to power-up our organising ☑️ Successfully campaigned to repeal anti-union laws Want to be part of the change in 2025? Get involved 📣
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Get Involved with the RCN | Royal College of Nursing
You can make a difference to nursing by voting in RCN elections, attending Congress, becoming a union rep or getting involved in our campaigns.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 01/01/2025
Wishing all of our members a Happy New Year. 🎊 Thank you for everything that you do to care for patients and their loved ones - not just over the festive period, but 365 days a year.
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 28/12/2024
392 patients waiting to access a hospital bed in NI. The moral injury to staff, especially out of hours, is devastating. Patient acuity doesn’t decrease at night, yet we’re left with skeleton staffing for half the year. The frustration of being unable to provide safe, effective care is unbearable.
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
🚨RCN NI members🚨 YOUR PAY - YOUR SAY It takes less than a minute to cast your vote 🗳️ Please check your emails. The vote has opened to get YOUR thoughts on the pay award for HSC staff employed on AFC contracts. Please read all the information and make an informed decision.
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 22/12/2024
RCN NI members - Your say on Your pay www.rcn.org.uk/northernirel...
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Frequently asked questions: Northern Ireland HSC Pay offer 2024/2025 | Royal College of Nursing
Find answers to your questions about the Northern Ireland HSC pay offer for 2024/25 and our member consultation.
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
“Royal college of nursing say a pay rise of around 2.8% is an insult to workers. It’s not worth the price of a cup of coffee” @kayburley.bsky.social
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 10/12/2024
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
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.
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 09/12/2024
Members can sign up to our weekly newsletter to keep up-to-date with the latest nursing news, events, updates in your area and nursing specialism and our campaigns. Sign up now: www.rcn.org.uk/join-the-rcn/rcn-weekly-update
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 05/12/2024
Your Trade Union Committee members have withdrawn the RCN from the outdated NHS PRB process. Alongside UNISON and Unite, we are calling for direct negotiations on NHS pay. Find out the details: bit.ly/4g6AnIa
Tell your MP it's time for fair pay for nursing
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The Centre for Progressive Change @progressivechange.bsky.social · 06/12/2024
24 trade union leaders have written to the Prime Minister expressing concern that Labour's manifesto commitment to "strengthen sick pay" isn't being honoured - and calling for an increase in Statutory Sick Pay. All workers should have access to #SafeSickPay www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Unions pressure ministers to increase workers' sick pay
A number of union leaders have written to the PM, concerned that Labour's commitment to strengthen sick pay isn't being honoured.
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
Calling all RCN NI members! It's crucial we continue to raise our voices for pay parity in Northern Ireland. Don't wait any longer - reach out to your local MLA today and let them know it's time nursing staff see the pay they deserve. 💪 action.rcn.org.uk/page/161109/...
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Northern Ireland nursing staff deserve pay parity now
Tell your MLA it is time for nursing staff working in our health and social care system to see pay parity. #FairPayForNursing #SafeStaffingSavesLives
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 02/12/2024
Nursing is an incredible and rewarding career. The government must support recruitment to ensure nursing shortages do not continue. Our calls for a loan forgiveness scheme for nursing graduates who commit to working in public services is gaining more support each day. Read more ⬇️
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Royal College of Nursing @rcn.org.uk · 02/12/2024
It's time for direct pay talks with government over NHS pay in England. Your elected Trade Union Committee members have withdrawn the RCN from the outdated NHS PRB process. It’s time for a change. Add your name to call on your MP’s support for negotiations. 📝 bit.ly/4g6AnIa
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sheilasobrany.bsky.social @sheilasobrany.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
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Denise K ☘️💜📚👩🏼‍🎓✊🏻 @dkell999.bsky.social · 29/11/2024
Unity is strength - Join us as Rep today
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