Yes, the play on words is intentional.Later this month senior mental health nurses from around England meet at a symposium to talk about MHN workforce matters. We are delighted to be taking four mental health nursing students to the event to help share the topics discussed with you and help you feed into the topics during the day via #MHNworkforceMatters on Twitter.Prior to the symposium, we thought we would talk about your views on mental health nurse workforce matters. Up to September 2022, there are some  93,800 Mental Health nurses on the NMC register, though this is not a direct indication of the numbers in practice; that's 13% of the total nursing workforce on the 716,000 nurses on the register. There are known to be 38,000 mental hea ...

Whilst this "Pay Offer" only technically directly impacts nurses financially in Agender For Change contracts, working in England, and there are plenty of you, it also comes with "Proposed non-pay measures to support the NHS workforce" which will impact everyone, patients included.So discussing it for the benefit of everyone seems appropriate, and we have seen a wide reaction to the comparison to recent offers around the UK, therefore it is an important discussion we can and should all share and learn from, regardless of where you nurse and what contract you are.What we know from @TheRCN from here https://www.rcn.org.uk/... Eligible RCN Members employed on Agenda For Change contracts have the opportunity to vote to accept or reject the offer ...