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                        17 Mar 2025
                        Letter to Black Country MPs on pay cuts imposed on NHS hospital and community health service staffThe RCN has written to MPs whose constituents are served by the NHS trusts in the Black Country Provider Collaborative. 
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                             6 Mar 2025 6 Mar 2025RCN condemns 'heartless' pay cut for Black Country nurses going the extra mileNursing staff feel insulted and exploited by moves by NHS trusts in the Black Country to cut their pay for the hours they work over and above their working week. 
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                             17 Apr 2024 17 Apr 2024Where a good care experience is child's playHave you ever heard of a ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ home with its very own playgroup? Let us introduce it to you. 
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                             13 Nov 2023 13 Nov 2023Coventry student wins prestigious UK ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ award for helping young people leaving mental health unitsA student has won one of ÌÀÍ·ÌõÎÛÁÏ’s top accolades for supporting young people discharged from mental health units. 
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                        29 Apr 2020
                        New regional director takes up postLindsay Meeks becomes the RCN's regional director for the West Midlands on 1 May. 
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                             28 Feb 2020 28 Feb 2020RCN urges West Midlands MPs to back urgent action to fix nurse shortageThe RCN is urging MPs across the West Midlands to support ‘urgent and meaningful measures’ to tackle a critical shortage of nurses. 
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                        28 Nov 2019
                        Nurse shortage now a crisis, says RCNThe shortage of nurses in the Midlands is growing and has been declared as a full-blown crisis by the RCN. 
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                             8 Jul 2019 8 Jul 2019Treating sickness the healthy wayWith the newly-published interim NHS People Plan promising to prioritise the health and wellbeing of NHS staff and promote compassion in how they are managed, a health trust in the West Midlands has already shown how it is realising this vision. 
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                             11 Jun 2019 11 Jun 2019Children’s hospice closure plan ‘sad’Plans by charity Acorns to close its children’s hospice in Walsall due to a shortfall in funding have been described as ‘sad’ by the RCN. 
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                             15 Feb 2019 15 Feb 2019Fancy a trip to RCN Congress in Liverpool?Apply for free train travel and a hotel stay of one or two nights. 
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