Campaign with us

Every RCN member has the potential to be a campaigner. If something is important to you, invariably, you’re able to speak confidently about it. You are an expert in your own experience, so you’re perfectly equipped to give voice to issues affecting you and the people you care for. Here at the RCN, we are campaigning on local workplace and UK-wide issues.

Fair Pay for Nursing

The Fair Pay for Nursing campaign is about:

• recognising that salaries of nursing professionals have consistently fallen below inflation – a fact which is being exacerbated by the cost of living crisis - and must now rise significantly to reflect that
• valuing the training, qualifications, skills, responsibilities and experience demonstrated every day by nursing staff
• ensuring that nursing is seen as an attractive, rewarding profession to tackle the tens of thousands of unfilled nursing posts.

The Government's response to this demand will indicate what they believe nursing staff who work outside of the NHS deserve too. We are clear that nursing staff deserve the same and fair pay, no matter the setting or sector.

Find out more about the campaign and how you can get involved.

Staffing for Safe and Effective Care

We're calling for safe and effective care to be enshrined in law in each UK country. In May 2021, we published the RCN Nursing Workforce Standards - the first national blueprint for tackling the nursing staff shortage levels across the UK. This set the standard for excellent patient care and nursing support in all settings and all UK countries.

Read more about the safe staffing campaigns in your country and the Nursing Workforce Standards.

Campaign locally on the issues that matter to you

If there are local issues that you and your colleagues want to address that aren’t about Pay or Safe Staffing, you can still campaign locally to make the changes. You and your colleagues are experts in your workplaces and are best placed to speak for your patients and the profession. Across the UK, regardless of your job, employer, care setting, or issue, you can be part of the RCN’s organising movement, leading on the issues that matter to you. Being a member of the RCN enables you to work collectively around local issues and use the power of your collective voice to improve professional standards, pay, staffing levels, employment rights and workplace safety; however big or small. Together, let’s use our voices to demand the changes we deserve.

Find out more about Organising for Change.