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Address: Trust Headquarters
20 Cavendish Square
London
W1G 0RN
Telephone number: 020 7409 3333
Website: http://www.rcn.org.uk

Founded in 1916 as a professional organisation for trained nurses, the Royal College of Nursing has evolved into a successful professional union. For almost a century the RCN has pioneered professional standards for nurses, in their education, their practice, and their working conditions. Today the RCN has over 400,000 members, and is uniquely acknowledged as the "voice of nursing" by both the government and the public.

The RCN represents nurses and nursing, promotes excellence in practice and shapes health policies.

To deliver our mission we aim to:

Represent

the interests of nurses and nursing and be their voice locally, nationally and internationally.

Influence

and lobby governments and others to develop and implement policy that improves the quality of patient care, and builds on the importance of nurses, health care assistants and nursing students to health outcomes.

Support and protect

the value of nurses and nursing staff in all their diversity

their terms and conditions of employment in all employment sectors

the interests of nurses professionally.

Develop

and educate nurses professionally and academically, building our resource of professional expertise and leadership

the science and art of nursing and its professional practice.

Build

a sustainable, member led, organisation with the capacity to deliver our mission effectively, efficiently and in accordance with our values

the systems, attitudes and resources to offer the best possible support and development to our staff.

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