Whatever role they held previously or even today, those implicated in the report – following appropriate investigation – will face internal and regulatory consequences.”Ĭarr’s Independent Review of the Culture of the Royal College of Nursing is highly critical across the board, concluding “that, at least until very recently, the RCN has been a dysfunctional organisation”.ĭespite 90% of RCN members being female, the council is seen as “a misogynistic environment in which loud and abrasive male voices dominate the environment to the detriment of women”, Carr reports. I do not want to see this proud body dragged through the mud but my commitment to leave no stone unturned is even greater. She said: “Where behaviours have fallen short in the past, I apologise today on behalf of the entire RCN. In a statement issued to the Guardian, the RCN’s general secretary and chief executive, Pat Cullen, who commissioned the review after being brought in last year to clean up the union and professional body, apologised for past conduct and warned those implicated that there would be consequences. He calls on those whose conduct is cited in the report, whom he does not name, to consider their positions in the light of testimony of groping, humiliation of female staff members and a refusal of those in positions of responsibility to reflect on the letters of resignation from women on the council, in which complaints ranged from unprofessional behaviour to “gaslighting and microaggressions”. The eminent barrister reports that there is evidence to support the “impression” that senior individuals have been seeking to take sexual advantage of subordinates and “engaging in unwanted sexual behaviours”. Grave concerns are also raised about the RCN’s annual conference, known as congress, where Carr says an “inappropriate sexual culture” warrants further urgent investigation “to identify the extent to which has actually resulted in exploitation of the vulnerable”.
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