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The document also plots ahead planning for "sustained social media negativity about the RCN" and "committee resignations".

RCN Council voted to postpone an emergency meeting but following anger from members has now backtracked on that decision.

The report suggests that a more "consistent approach" may have led to the disqualification of other candidates.

Over 1,000 members triggered the meeting calling for an independent investigation in the recent presidential elections.

At the current trajectory, it would the Government ten years to meet its pre-election promise of 50,000 more nurses.

The news comes only days after the union's Deputy President also resigned.

Tracey Budding is set to become RCN deputy president from 1 January 2021.

Tracey Budding works as a specialist nurse in gynaecology at the Birmingham Women’s Hospital. 

It will be the second extraordinary general meeting in two years. The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has revealed it...

The consultation will take place from 30 October until the end of November 2020.