All Nursing articles – Page 55
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NewsExclusive: Official staffing guidance to order 'urgent' nurse staffing reviews
NHS providers should recruit more staff if their current workforce plans do not take account of staff training and unplanned leave, new government backed guidance is set to say.
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NewsExclusive: Prime minister's nursing group challenges government over staffing levels
The prime minister’s nursing advisory group has called for the introduction of a minimum staffing level – placing it in direct opposition to government policy.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Ministers to order staffing reviews in response to Francis
Hospital boards will be ordered to review and publish nurse staffing levels at least twice a year as part of the government’s full response to the Francis report, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNursing directors warned to ensure safe staffing levels
Directors of nursing who fail to ensure their hospitals have adequate numbers of nurses could find themselves facing fitness to practise panels, the Nursing and Midwifery Council has warned.
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NewsFormer Mid Staffs chief nurse given caution
A former chief nurse at scandal-hit Stafford Hospital has received a five year caution after being found guilty of exposing patients to danger.
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NewsBMA backs GP networks but rejects seven-day working 'mantra'
The chair of the British Medical Association’s GP committee has called for practices to “form network arrangements” and share staff to provide extended opening services and a “stronger community-based provision of care”.
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HSJ Local
Agency spending soars at King's College Foundation Trust
WORKFORCE: King’s College Hospital Foundation Trust’s spending on agency nursing staff has increased by 71 per cent since the same last point last year.
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NewsThird of nursing directors concerned about staffing levels
A third of nursing directors believe they regularly have too few nurses to ensure safe staffing levels on their wards, a survey of some of England’s most senior nurses suggests.
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NewsConcern over race bias on leadership course
Just 4 per cent of recruits to a nursing leadership course set up at the request of the prime minister are from a non-white background, HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has learnt.
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NewsFirst nurse appointed to national clinical director role
A nurse and hospital chief executive has been appointed national clinical director for rural and remote care by NHS England medical director Sir Bruce Keogh.
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HSJ KnowledgeFrom hospice to hospital: compassionate care for all
A model of compassionate care for all healthcare settings
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News'Francis effect' leads to thousands more nursing posts
Hospitals are trying to increase the number of nurses and healthcare assistants working on their wards in a trend being attributed to a growing focus on patient safety in the wake of the Francis report.
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NewsNursing shortage drives hospitals overseas
More than a third of hospital trusts have turned to actively recruiting nurses from overseas as they struggle to keep wards adequately staffed, it has emerged.
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NewsDuty of candour moves closer with bill amendment
The government has paved the way for the introduction of a duty of candour through an amendment to the Care Bill – but the key question of when the duty would apply has been left open.
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CommentNational cancer survey kick-starts care transformation
Providing better care for cancer patients in London
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NewsField: Nurses central to primary care reform
Nurse training needs a “radical review” to meet the “urgent” need for professionals with the skills to care for patients with long term conditions, the new chief inspector of primary care has said.
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NewsHigh Court rules incompetent nurses cannot be struck off
Nurses and midwives cannot be struck off the register for incompetence under the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s current rules, it has emerged.
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NewsAnalysed: Staff earnings and cost to the health service
Analysis for HSJ reveals the earnings of NHS staff groups − and the changes they have seen in recent years − as unions and NHS Employers clash over deciding next year’s pay settlements.
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HSJ KnowledgeShining a spotlight on care support workers
A new programme is helping to introduce more HCAs to the NHS
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HSJ KnowledgeHow clinical academics are transforming patient care
The brightest and best are driving compassionate nursing