All Nursing articles – Page 3
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Making the best of the overseas recruitment surge
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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NewsNHSE expands overseas recruitment drive
NHS England has expanded its drive to increase overseas recruitment, introducing funding for trusts to hire more types of health professionals from abroad.
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Expert BriefingThe Ward Round: Nurses divided
Staffing is the issue keeping NHS leaders awake at night – and which consumes two-thirds of trusts’ spending. The fortnightly The Ward Round newsletter, by HSJ workforce correspondent Annabelle Collins, ensures you are tuned in to the daily pressures on staff, and the wider trends and policies shaping the workforce.
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Expert BriefingPatient Safety Watch: When patient care becomes a ‘luxury’
HSJ is now hosting the Patient Safety Watch newsletter, written by Patient Safety Watch chief executive James Titcombe.
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NewsNursing strike cut short following court order
Next week’s nurses strike will now end on bank holiday Monday – one day earlier than planned – following a High Court decision that it could not run into Tuesday.
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NewsHealth secretary to seek legal action over nursing strike
The health secretary will be seeking legal action regarding the Royal College of Nursing’s planned strike on 2 May, it has been announced.
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HSJ PartnersThe key to delivering digital change for the NHS
A report highlights that a new approach to technology creation and adoption where clinical staff collaborate to design and introduce new technologies and digital transformation is linked to clinically relevant outcomes can help deliver digital change, write Dr Mick Quinn and Professor Sultan Mahmud
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NewsTrusts given five years to achieve safe midwife staffing
NHS trusts have been given until 2027-28 to employ enough midwives to meet safe staffing requirements, NHS England’s new maternity delivery plan has said.
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CommentDivide and rule on NHS pay would be disastrous
The government’s proposed settlement to resolve the current wave of industrial action sows the seeds of some incredibly difficult and possibly decisive changes to NHS pay in the future, write Anita Charlesworth and James Buchan
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CommentThe NHS must help restore the UK's reputation as a place to conduct cutting edge research
A declaration of intent from policymakers to make the UK the top destination for health and life science research followed by a plan of action will inspire everyone involved in health and care – public, patients, clinicians, managers and politicians – to contribute more towards research, writes James O’Shaughnessy
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CommentMake the mental health of NHS staff a priority
As work-related stress and the cost-of-living crisis takes a toll on mental health of NHS staff, policymakers need to ensure national-level action complements and enables local initiatives to reduce stress, improve physical wellbeing and manage workloads of staff, writes Zosia Walecka
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CommentHow ICBs can help people die at home
Ruth Robertson highlights the need for ICBs to work through immediate pressures to deliver good quality and coordinated end-of-life care services
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NewsNurses pause strike action as ministers agree pay talks
The Royal College of Nursing has agreed to pause planned strike action as they enter pay talks with the government.
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NewsNurses to walk out of emergency departments for 48 hours
Nurses will walk out of emergency departments, intensive care units and cancer care services for the first time in the next wave of strike action.
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CommentExclusive: the Steve Barclay diaries
There’s only one Steve with the qualities to sort out the country’s ailing health system. As told to Julian Patterson
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NewsNurses and ambulance staff to stage co-ordinated strike on 6 February
More than 10,000 ambulance staff will join nurses in co-ordinated walkouts next month, in one of the biggest strikes in NHS history.
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NewsNew nursing strikes announced as Christmas ambulance walkout is called off
Nurses will walk out for two consecutive days on Wednesday 18 and Thursday 19 January, the Royal College of Nursing has announced.
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Expert BriefingThe Integrator: Freedom, or nothing left to lose
Insider tales and must-read analysis on how integration is reshaping health and care systems, NHS providers, primary care and commissioning. This week by deputy editor Dave West.
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Expert BriefingAmbulance strike is hospitals' nightmare before Christmas
Essential insight into England’s biggest health economy, by HSJ bureau chief Ben Clover.
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NewsTrust boss urges Sunak to avert strike action
A trust leader has written an open letter to prime minister Rishi Sunak asking him to urgently avert strike action planned by the Royal College of Nursing.