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...This needs immediate intervention and corrective action to protect patients now and in the future,” wrote RCN leader Pat Cullen....
...Pat Cullen, RCN general secretary, disclosed the meeting with Steve Barclay in her keynote speech on Tuesday at the union’s annual conference in Brighton....
...One minister admitted that this was now the essence of Sunak’s strategy, citing poet Hilaire Belloc’s lines: “Always keep a-hold of nurse for fear of finding something worse.”...
...Pat Cullen, general secretary of the RCN, on Sunday insisted that the union would never leave “patients unsafe or create more risk”....
...Pat Cullen, RCN general secretary, branded Barclay’s intervention as “nakedly political. Nurses will not be gagged in this way by a bullying government”, she said....
...Speaking on Monday, RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said striking nurses were “standing up” for a health service that had been “broken by this government”, and called on Barclay to negotiate with unions...
...The number of “practice hours” a nurse must complete before qualifying could also fall, according to the plan....
...In an email to union members, RCN general secretary Pat Cullen insisted that “the fight for the fair pay and safe staffing that our profession, our patients, and our NHS deserves is far from over”....
...“We are desperately trying to save the NHS; that’s what every single nurse is trying to do,” Pat Cullen, general secretary of the Royal College of Nursing, told BBC Breakfast....
...Pat Cullen, general secretary of the RCN, told the BBC’s Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg that the union would “absolutely not” pause strike action at the government’s request, after its members rejected a settlement...
...On the eve of the first ever national strike in the history of the Royal College of Nursing last week, Pat Cullen, the union’s general secretary, struck a tone more redolent of sorrow than anger....
...But Pat Cullen, RCN general secretary, said she had told health secretary Steve Barclay that her members would “require an improved offer” as soon as possible in order not to be “forced back to the picket...
...RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said the union would ballot its members for a further six months of industrial action after this weekend....
...Strike action by nurses across England and Wales will escalate next month if pay talks with ministers fail to progress, the Royal College of Nurses said on Monday....
...Pat Cullen, the RCN’s general secretary, said the prime minister had left the union no choice but to prolong the dispute....
...Pat Cullen, the general secretary and chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, said it was a “tragic day” for nurses, patients and the NHS, and blamed the government for its refusal to negotiate....
...“If this government continues to push nurses to the position that we find ourselves in, we will have no option but to continue strikes into January,” said RCN chief executive Pat Cullen on Tuesday....
...Meanwhile, it faces the threat of further strikes by nurses and other NHS workers whose unions have rejected the deal, as well as by doctors locked in separate pay disputes....
...“On a day of strike . . . what we will continue to provide is life preserving services,” said RCN chief executive Pat Cullen on Friday, confirming that nurses would still provide emergency care during industrial...
...RCN general secretary Pat Cullen said the prime minister’s refusal to discuss pay was “pushing even more people into the strike”, adding that Sunak must “not let this go ahead”....
...Pat Cullen, RCN general secretary, said nurses in England were “being punished and left behind” by Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, who had “turned his back on them”....
...RCN general secretary Pat Cullen described this week’s action as “a modest escalation before a sharp increase in under three weeks from now”, adding: “People aren’t dying because nurses are striking....
...The findings point to worsening strains on the public sector workforce as unions representing teachers and nurses prepare to ballot their members on fresh strike action....
...“Every nurse feels a heavy weight of responsibility to make this strike safe. Patients are already at great risk and we will not add to it,” said Pat Cullen, the RCN’s general secretary....
...RCN members rejected the pay offer, in spite of it being recommended by Pat Cullen, the union’s general secretary....
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