Since February 2026, major parts of The Employment Rights Act have taken effect, including:
trade union reforms,
new parental leave rights,
enhanced sick pay rules,
stronger whistleblowing protections, and the establishment of the Fair Work Agency.
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Are you interested in where psychotherapy is heading?
Join us online on Saturday, 23 May for the UKCP research conference 2026 – open to members and non-members.
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Happy Easter 🐣
I have received three!
@rcnfoundation.bsky.social grants are now open!
rcnfoundation.rcn.org.uk/Grants-and-f...
Applications close 5pm on 13 May 2026.
You could be awarded between £500 - £2,500, and you don’t need to be an @rcn.org.uk member to apply (but we would love you to join us).
#NurseSky
Immigrants built the NHS!
We must always stand united against hate 💙
Our conference programme is now live – and early-bird tickets close on Tuesday, 31 March.
Join us on Friday, 19 – Saturday, 20 June at Mary Ward House, London for our conference, Threads across the divide: weaving connections in a fragmented world. (1/2)
Despite a growing number of people experiencing anxiety, the guideline has not been meaningfully updated in over a decade.
It limits patient choice and fails to address access for people who face additional barriers to care (2/3)
Last week, we wrote to NICE calling for an urgent update to their guidelines for treating generalised anxiety and panic disorder (1/3)
“Where is all that money going? Is any of it going to causes that are for women, for women’s advancement, for women’s rights? I think these are things that need to be made more transparent.”
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
On International Women’s Day, I’m proud to be part of that tradition.
Organising.
Leading.
Challenging.
Changing things.
That is nursing.
And that is the legacy of women who built it.
Nursing has always been collective.
Nursing has always been political.
Nursing has always involved women demanding a voice.
Today the RCN is the world’s largest nursing professional body and union.
Modern nursing grew from women challenging social expectations.
Nursing has been shaped by women stepping into public life, influencing policy, and building professional structures where none existed before.
That history matters.
Early nurse leaders were organisers, reformers, negotiators and campaigners.
They pushed for state registration of nurses.
They pushed for fair pay.
They pushed for respect for nursing as a skilled profession.
That was radical.
They wanted professional recognition.
They wanted proper education.
They wanted regulation of nursing standards.
They wanted a collective voice.
And they were prepared to challenge the system to get it.
The @rcn.org.uk, founded in 1916, began with just 34 members.
At the time, women could not vote on equal terms, had limited access to higher education, and were largely excluded from public and political life.
Yet these nurses organised anyway.
On International Women’s Day, I’ve been reflecting on the fact that nursing and the organisations that represent it were built by women who refused to accept the limits placed on them.
The history of nursing is not passive.
It is organised, political, and often radical.
#NurseSky #IWD
This is so, so wrong. Labour continually going for the evil small minded nasty vote. Refugees deserve actual refuge once their case has been judged real.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
52,000+ patients waited longer than 24 hours to be admitted to hospitals across north-west England.
Many wait for up to 3 days. Govt doesn't publish full data
Tory austerity, NHS neglect, refusal to tax the rich inflicts misery.
And it continues. The NHS needs more capacity, not privatisation.
🤢 🤮 that is all.
www.register.service.csd.fcdo.gov.uk/united-arab-...
Headline from the FT in 2023: Victorian sewers not to blame for England's pollution, research shows Less than 12 per cent of the sewage network in England and Wales was built in the 19th century,
Well, #DirtyBusiness is an eye-opener even for those of us that have followed the sewage dumping scandal with interest. This was the biggest lie I didn’t know was a lie: “We’ve inherited a crumbling Victorian system and it’s too expensive to repair”.
No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.
Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Mental health nursing sits at the intersection of care, law, ethics and risk.
Done well, it protects rights, promotes recovery and safeguards communities.
Today is a moment to recognise that clearly and without cliché.
#MentalHealthNursing #EvidenceBasedPractice #SafetyCriticalCare
If we are serious about mental health care in 2026, we must be serious about:
• safe staffing and skill mix
• robust clinical supervision
• continuing professional development
• leadership that understands relational practice
• systems that support thoughtful, person-centred decision-making
Mental health nurses are not heroes.
They are highly skilled professionals operating in complex and sometimes high-stakes environments.
We should talk about the work in those terms.
