Royal College of Nursing union tells members to cut the drinking

Bournemouth Nurses have been told to cut down on alcohol at their next congress. After the last annual congress in Bournemouth, the Royal College of Nursing has called for a crackdown on free drinks because the practice runs contrary to the public health message that it is trying to promote. A report from the RCN’s agenda committee said that nurses had been drinking too much at social functions during the week-long event in April. But Peter Carter, the RCN general secretary, denied that nurses had overindulged at the congress. “Our members work extremely hard. The implication is that people are getting hammered - that is not the case,” he told the committee. The row follows comments by Lord Mancroft, the Conservative peer, who attacked nurses who treated him last year as “grubby, drunken and promiscuous”, during a House of... [read full story]