The RCN chief executive Dame Donna Kinnair has chosen to write a letter to Boris Johnson. This comes from his appointment as Prime Minister. She has asked him to try and take urgent action regarding the current nursing crisis. This includes acting for the RCN. They want him to make a new law that states that the health and social care would be accountable when considering the NHS staffing levels. This would also introduce a very similar measure in Scotland and even Wales too. It’s all part of the ongoing campaign for the staffing for safe and even effective healthcare. They would be enshrined in law across the UK and this would be a positive movement to say the least. The letter even calls for investment in nursing and higher education too. They are going to try and continue professional development and they would even outline how any future immigration systems would then give people the right skills that they need to progress.

Dame Donna Kinnair has stated that never in recent history has the UK faced these kind of challenges, and that a lot of these do stem from the fact that we are leaving the EU. Dame Donna Kinnair has stated that a prime minister has entered the office with a lot of pressure. A growing number of jobs are now unfulfilled, and this is especially the case if you work in a nursing agency or even in a nursing recruitment agency. The growing number of empty jobs has left a huge gap in health and social care, not to mention that rural areas are also going to be under much more pressure. Only time will tell if this is going to become a major issue.