All Nursing articles – Page 32

  • Shaun lintern expert briefing
    Expert Briefing

    Lintern's Risk Register: The NHS faces a workforce Brexodus

    2017-03-20T09:53:00Z

    Contact me in confidence here. Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern

  • Dark hospital corridor
    HSJ Local

    New drive to make sure trust staff sleep on night shifts

    2017-03-17T11:56:00Z

    All 15,000 staff at Guys and St Thomas’ Foundation Trust encouraged to take their breaks Campaign based on research evidence link to patient harm from fatigue Staff can benefit from a 20 minute nap at night and reduce clinical errors All 15,000 staff at one of the country’s ...

  • community nurse
    News

    Community providers face new staffing requirements

    2017-03-16T17:07:00Z

    Community service providers need better tools to meet safe staffing levels District nursing providers should review staffing annually and benchmark their services, NHSI says Report is the latest safe staffing guidance to be published by the regulator Providers of district nursing services lack the tools to plan staffing ...

  • Janet Davies
    News

    RCN to separate union and professional roles

    2017-03-16T07:00:00Z

    RCN to set up two committees to separately lead on professional nursing and trade union issues Reforms follow recommendations in the Francis report that RCN separate its dual roles All members will be able to stand for election to the committees and be eligible to vote. The Royal ...

  • EU flag
    News

    New immigration charges could cost NHS millions

    2017-03-14T14:57:00Z

    Immigration and skills charge could cost NHS millions of pounds from April NHS England chief nurse Jane Cummings says EU staff must be supported Government has overturned protections for EU staff ahead of Brexit talks NHS England’s chief nurse has called on the NHS to support European nursing ...

  • Workforce
    HSJ Local

    NHS trust replacing qualified nurses with nursing associates

    2017-03-10T11:29:00Z

    East and North Hertfordshire Trust to replace 21 nurse posts with nursing associates Royal College of Nursing warns the move is worrying and will short change patients Nursing associate role is being developed by Health Education England The Royal College of Nursing has criticised plans by an NHS ...

  • Weston General Hospital
    News

    Almost half of NHS staff say wards are understaffed

    2017-03-08T13:09:00Z

    Almost half of NHS staff say there are not enough staff at their trust to do their job Midwives, consultants and nurses complain of staff shortages in latest survery Best performing acute trust on this measure was Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh FT Almost half of NHS staff say ...

  • Shaun lintern expert briefing
    Expert Briefing

    Lintern's Risk Register: Is the NHS losing sight of the patient?

    2017-03-03T11:19:00Z

    Everything you need to stay up to date on patient safety and workforce, plus my take on the most important under-the-radar stories. From patient safety correspondent Shaun Lintern

  • Luton and Dunstable Hospital NHS Foundation Trust
    News

    System leaders set out new A&E 'minimum requirements'

    2017-03-02T07:00:00Z

    New standards issued on how to divert minor injuries away from A&E to co-located services NHS England requirements must be met either by Easter or September Measures are intended to alleviate A&E pressure NHS organisations have been given months to meet new “minimum requirements” for diverting accident and ...

  • News

    Pay gap between medical and nursing directors widens at largest trusts

    2017-03-01T07:00:00Z

    Medical directors at largest acute trusts in line to receive a median salary over a quarter higher than those at the smallest Median pay differential between nursing directors even higher at 39 per cent between the largest and smallest acute providers Medium sized mental health trusts expected to offer ...

  • Bill Kirkup
    News

    Exclusive: Morecambe Bay inquiry chair to lead new investigation

    2017-02-28T12:14:00Z

    Bill Kirkup to lead investigation into care and death of Elizabeth Dixon in 2001 Case has been highlighted by HSJ after NHS England pulled out of joint inquiry with CQC Jeremy Hunt says he is “determined” to get to the bottom of what happened to the baby girl ...

  • Jeremy Hunt
    News

    Regulator to be investigated over handling of care scandal

    2017-02-17T17:55:00Z

    Jeremy Hunt has today ordered an investigation into the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s handling of the Morecambe Bay care scandal.

  • needle resize
    HSJ Knowledge

    Specialist nurses support cost effective drugs for treatment

    2017-02-15T07:00:00Z

    Specialist IBD nurses are key to ensuring cutting edge biological therapies are used in a way which benefits both trust and patient

  • Specialist nurse
    HSJ Knowledge

    A powerful case for specialist nurses

    2017-02-15T07:00:00Z

    Specialist nurses are far from just the ‘icing on the cake’ – in inflammatory bowel disease alone they are consistently preventing emergency attendances and ensuring the most appropriate use of services

  • social care
    HSJ Knowledge

    How specialist nurses can bring services closer to home

    2017-02-15T07:00:00Z

    Shrewd service redesign by specialist nurses can lead to greater efficiency for providers and better care for patients

  • Richard Parker
    HSJ Local

    New chief executive revealed for financially troubled trust

    2017-02-13T16:47:00Z

    Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals has promoted its nursing director to chief executive.

  • Stack of reports
    News

    Francis outlines unfinished business four years after inquiry

    2017-02-09T22:00:00Z

    More still needs to be done to identify systemic causes of poor care and move away from blaming individual NHS leaders, Sir Robert Francis QC has told HSJ.

  • Pushing trolley bed
    HSJ Local

    Trust to take back 1,500 staff after halting £200m private contract

    2017-02-01T10:45:00Z

    Nottingham University Hospitals Trust will take back 1,500 staff from Carillion by 1 April Contract termination follows months of complaints over standards Five year contract worth £200m was awarded in 2014 Nottingham University Hospitals Trust will terminate a five year, £200m estates and facilities contract with Carillion by ...

  • Workforce
    News

    New taskforce to 'challenge' weak STP proposals

    2017-01-31T10:40:00Z

    Joint NHS taskforce set up to challenge weak STP workforce plans NHS Improvement nursing director says staffing is the “weakest” element of the STPs Ruth May warns of divergence between operational plans and STP forecasts A new taskforce will challenge weak workforce proposals in sustainability and transformation plans, ...

  • Ruth May
    News

    Chief nurse says she will 'step up efforts' to increase staffing

    2017-01-31T07:00:00Z

    NHS Improvement identified a similar decline in nurse staffing found by HSJ investigation Ruth May says more needs to be done to increase nurse numbers Practice of one upping “poses a significant risk” to patients, she says NHS Improvement was aware of a significant decline in nurse staffing ...