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Aneurin Bevan

Aneurin Bevan Health Board - There was a loss of 94 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Cwm Taf

Cwm Taf Local Health Board - There was a loss of 51 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University

Abertawe Bro Morgannwg University Health Board - There was an increase of 36 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Cardiff & Vale University

Cardiff and Vale Local Health Board - There was an increase of 36 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Powys Teaching

Powys Local Health Board - There was a loss of 8 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Hywel Dda

Hywel Dda Local Health Board - There was an increase of 2 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Betsi Cadwalader University

Betsi Cadwaladr University Health Board - There was a loss of 122 nursing posts between Sept 2010 and Sept 2011.
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Western

Western Health and Social Care Trust - The Trust has cut 37 nursing posts since December 2009.
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Southern

Southern Health and Social Care Trust - 23 nursing posts cut since December 2009.
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South Eastern

South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust - Changes to service provision at Downe and Lagan Valley Hospitals.
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Northern

Northern Health and Social Care Trust - 177 nursing posts cut since December 2009, representing 6% of the nursing workforce.
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Belfast

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust - 250 nursing posts lost since December 2009 and 500 posts scheduled to be cut.
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South Central

Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - The trust is consolidating three district nursing teams into two in Bracknell and...more »
Solent NHS Trust - There are plans to combine two rehabilitation wards for older people in Portsmouth.
Oxford Radcliffe Hospitals NHS Trust - The gynaecology ward at the Horton General Hospital in Banbury will no longer be open 24 hours a day.
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South East Coast

Medway NHS Foundation Trust - The trust is removing 8.8 WTE posts from its non-ward based nursing team.
Medway NHS Foundation Trust - The trust’s transformation programme for 2012-13 includes a loss of 241.18 WTE posts.
Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust - The trust plans to move inpatient elderly and orthopaedic care from Southlands Hospital to Worthing Hospital.
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London

South London Healthcare - The trust plans to reduce its workforce by 1083 WTE from March 2012 to March 2016.
Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust - The trust’s 2011-12 savings plan includes savings of £11.7m from nursing costs alone....more »
Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust - The trust is reconfiguring staffing at Kensington and Chelsea Addiction Services and their Addiction Services Headquarters.
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East of England

Southend University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust - The trust plans to decrease its workforce by 400 WTE from 2011 to...more »
East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust - The changes could mean a loss of 30.44 WTE posts, 22.91 of them registered nurses.
South Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust - The trust plans to reduce its nursing workforce by 149.67 WTE from 2011 to 2013. Redundancies are possible.
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East Midlands

Northampton General Hospital NHS Trust - The trust proposed restructure into care groups will mean a loss of five senior managers, including one nurse.
NHS Northamptonshire - Restructuring proposals at NHS Northamptonshire PCT have placed 102.52 WTE posts at risk.
Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust - Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust needs to save £23 million over a 5...more »
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South West

University Hospitals Bristol NHS Foundation Trust - The trust plans to reduce its nursing establishment by 125.
Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust - The trust aims to make pay savings equivalent to about 250 WTE posts per year until 2014.
Taunton and Somerset NHS Foundation Trust - The trust plans to decrease its workforce by 504 WTE from 2010 to 2013. 60% of the posts are clinical.
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Yorkshire and the Humber

Bradford District Care Trust - The trust’s proposed management restructure would result in a loss of 25.4 WTE posts.
Leeds Partnerships NHS Foundation Trust - Plans to reduce its workforce by 300 WTE from 2011 to 2014.
Northern Lincolnshire & Goole Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Plans to decrease its workforce by 491 WTE. This includes 146 nursing and midwifery posts, and 72 other clinical.
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North West

Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - The trust is removing 160 posts from their establishment due to a reduction in commissioner income.
Pennine Acute Hospitals NHS Trust - The trust has lost 10.42 WTE nurse practitioner posts as part of changes to their “hospital at night” service.
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North East

North Tees and Hartlepool - The trust has suspended all inpatient gynaecology services at the University Hospital of...more »
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - The trust is proposing to downgrade 2 band 7 nurse practitioners.
South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust - Trust proposes to reconfigure coronary care services at the Friarage Hospital in Northallerton.
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Dumfries & Galloway

NHS Dumfries & Galloway - The board must save £6.8m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 2.9%...more »
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West Midlands

Sandwell and West Birmingham Hospitals NHS Trust - The trust plans to reduce its workforce by around 370 WTE in 2012-13.
University Hospitals of Coventry and Warwickshire - The trust plans to close Birch Ward on the St Cross site.
Birmingham and Solihull NHS Cluster/NHS Direct - Could lose 53 WTE posts, mainly nursing from Birmingham Own Health, a service for people with long term conditions.
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Borders

NHS Borders - The board must save £5.4m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 3.3%...more »
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Ayrshire & Arran

NHS Ayrshire & Arran - There has been a 1% decrease in the nursing workforce, and nursing and...more »
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Lanarkshire

NHS Lanarkshire - The board must save £17.1million in 2010/11. This represents 2.1% of their basic...more »
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Lothian

NHS Lothian - The board must save £31million in 2010/11. This represents 3% of their basic...more »
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Greater Glasgow & Clyde

NHS Greater Glasgow & Clyde - The board must save £54m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 2.9%...more »
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Fife

NHS Fife - The board must save £9.7m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 1.9%...more »
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Forth Valley

NHS Forth Valley - The board must save £26.5m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 6.6%...more »
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Tayside

NHS Tayside - The board must save £30million in 2010/11. This represents 5.1% of their basic...more »
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Grampian

NHS Grampian - The board must save £34m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 5%...more »
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Highland

NHS Highland - The board must save £14.7m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 3.1%...more »
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Orkney

NHS Orkney - The board must save £2.5m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 8%...more »
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Shetland

NHS Shetland - The board must save £1.4million in 2010/11. This represents 3.8% of their basic...more »
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Western Isles

NHS Western Isles - The board must save £4.4m to break even in 2010-11. This represents 7.6%...more »
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18 05 2012

What happened at Congress 2012

The Frontline First campaign was key theme through this week’s Congress and it would not have been such a success without the efforts of you, our members. You supplied us with valuable data on the cuts you are seeing first hand and we were then able to use this to share with the world.

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16 05 2012 | Rod Thomson

Wednesday at Congress

The media has continued, yet again, to focus on RCN Congress. Today’s main story was the publication of a survey of learning disability nurses. The survey found that nurses have "real concerns" about the safety of their clients because of cuts in services, such as health education and personal care packages. The story was covered extensively in the Guardian, who published both a full page feature and a news story, as well as by Press Association and Independent i.

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15 05 2012 | Rod Thomson

Tuesday at Congress

Day three of Congress has seen the media continuing to focus heavily on events in Harrogate, particularly looking at the keynote speeches.

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14 05 2012 | Rod Thomson, Chair of Congress

Monday at Congress

The Royal College of Nursing congress continues today and continues to make headlines. Our story outlining potential losses of more than 60000 NHS posts has received widespread coverage across print, online and broadcast media. An RCN survey found that community services were struggling to meet the demands placed on them, rendering plans to move care from acute hospitals to the community were a "facade”.

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13 05 2012 | Rod Thomson

Sunday at Congress

Another year, another congress and it’s certainly been a lively start with the RCN receiving extensive coverage in today’s papers. We published details of a new survey which found that patients are being placed on hospital trolleys for hours on end and treated in corridors and make shift wards.

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17 04 2012 | Frontline First team

NEWS - Unions work together to resist attacks on AfC

New joint NHS trade unions guidance has been published to help RCN activists resist local proposals to cut NHS pay, terms and conditions. Staff in some foundation trusts in England are facing what appears to be a co-ordinated attempt to make changes to Agenda for Change (AfC) contracts, including threats to dismiss and re-engage staff on new terms and conditions if the unions do not agree to negotiate.

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13 04 2012 | Frontline First team

NEWS - Department of Health submits evidence to pay review body

The Royal College of Nursing reiterated its call for the NHS Pay Review Body (PRB) to reject outright any proposals to introduce local pay bargaining, as the Department of Health submitted its evidence. The RCN’s Chief Executive & General Secretary, Dr Peter Carter, said the College believes local pay will risk competition between trusts for staff, drive pay down in certain areas and risk lasting damage to staff morale and motivation.

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28 03 2012

Pensions: where are we now?

The Royal College of Nursing has conducted its own all member vote on pensions and is now currently meeting other unions who are at varying stages in their own member consultations to discuss next steps. The decision to continue engagement with other trade unions was taken by the RCN Council following the end of the member vote in February.

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15 03 2012 | Frontline First team

NEWS: RCN joins NHS unions to oppose local pay

The Royal College of Nursing has joined other unions to warn that a move to local pay for NHS staff would lead to damaging competition, entrench low pay in certain areas and further erode staff morale. In a joint submission to the NHS Pay Review Body, the NHS staff side has called for the retention of national pay scales. The submission warns that abandoning national pay, following on from pensions negotiations and a two-year pay freeze, will be seen as a further attack on pay, terms and conditions. The report also states that modelling public sector pay on private sector structures will be difficult, costly and inefficient, as well as replicating inequalities found in the private sector.

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22 02 2012 | RCN Public Affairs Team

Latest media round up as RCN responds to Number 10 meeting

The nation’s media continues to focus heavily on the Government’s Health and Social Care Bill, with the RCN at the very heart of the debate. Last Friday evening, it was revealed that Downing Street would be holding a meeting on Monday to discuss the NHS reforms and possible ways forward. However, the RCN, along with other organisations such as the BMA and RCGPs, who opposed the bill, did not receive an invite to the meeting.

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