All Nursing articles – Page 103
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The nursing shake-up
A new Nursing, Midwifery and Health Visiting Council will replace the UK Central Council and the four national boards governing nurse education. The government is consulting the NHS on three points on how it will work.
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UKCC faces axe in nursing regulation shake-up
The government is to shake up nurses' regulation after an independent review found existing regulatory bodies 'do not do enough to protect the safety of patients'.
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Dobson plans new grading for nurses
Health secretary Frank Dobson has proposed a new grading structure for nurses in a bid to make the nursing profession more attractive.
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Hancock calls for clarity on long-term nursing care
Royal College of Nursing general secretary Christine Hancock has urged health secretary Frank Dobson to clarify the government's position on funding long-term nursing care.
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How Castle helped nurses storm pay barrier
A big pay increase for nurses? Baroness Castle of Blackburn has seen and done it all before. As an embattled social services secretary in 1974, she gave nurses a massive 30 per cent rise.
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Nurses on PCG boards
5 February, London; 12 February, York; 19 February, Liverpool; 26 February, Cambridge; 5 March, Derby
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Former nurse Ann Keen
Former nurse Ann Keen has been appointed parliamentary private secretary to health secretary Frank Dobson. The Brentford and Isleworth MP was also general secretary of the Community and District Nursing Association until her election in 1997. She succeeds Hugh Bayley, now a social security minister.
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'Laid-back' attitude to violence against nurses
Nurses are more at risk from violence at work than any other profession, according to a new report from the Trades Union Congress which says violence is 'endemic' in hospitals.
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Same again but with a difference The only real option open to Labour is to fund the nurses' pay award
Ministers are currently having that hardest of lessons about the NHS rammed down their throats - namely, that no matter how much money you allocate to it, sooner or later (usually sooner) it will raise a cacophonous clamour for even more.
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Pay, not PR, is the solution Ministers must get to the heart of nurse shortages - and winter crises
Another new year, another clutch of 'NHS in crisis' headlines bespatters the national newspapers. The pattern is a classic, if not quite perennial, one: widespread outbreaks of flu lead to more patients presenting in accident and emergency departments, while on the wards the same outbreaks lead to elderly people blocking ...
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Male managers 'thwarting workplace nurseries boon'
The NHS could save up to £51m a year by introducing family-friendly policies such as workplace nurseries, which would also encourage more women staff to stay in their jobs or return after having babies, says a survey.
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Nurse, the screens
The latest films could soon be showing at a hospital near you under a scheme to bring the silver screen into the health service. Barbara Millar asks what managers would recommend
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Short cuts RCN calls for moves to stop older nurses quitting
The Royal College of Nursing has issued a 10-point plan to help employers keep older nurses in the profession. It was issued last week with a report by Jim Buchan, reader in the department of management at Queen Mary College, Edinburgh, saying one in five nurses on the register is ...
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Short cuts RCN secures £350,000 for nurse injured at work
The Royal College of Nursing has secured an out of court settlement of £350,000 for former nurse biological science tutor Carole Webster, who was left disabled by an accident at St Bartholomew's and Princess Alexandra and Newham College of Nursing in 1993. A stiff door suddenly stopped, forcing her to ...
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Short cuts Nursing home set up to replace long-stay hospital
Edinburgh Healthcare trust is investing £1m in setting up a 16-bed nursing home in the grounds of Corstorphine Hospital. It will be run and staffed by the NHS and will provide accommodation for people with learning disabilities who are moving out of Gogarburn Hospital, which is due to close in ...
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Short cuts Community nurses can reach socially excluded
Community nurses can reach socially excluded people who can't be reached by other health services, according to King's Fund chief executive Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality healthcare to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become ...