All Nursing articles – Page 56
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HSJ KnowledgeWhy 'cookie cutter' change programmes won't work
There is more to replicating success than ‘copy and paste’
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NewsHospitals urged to follow Salford's staffing example
All hospitals should publish the staffing levels on their wards on a daily basis, the Commons health committee has recommended.
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NewsNMC backs revalidation plans despite concerns
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has approved plans for the revalidation of the profession - provided the new system can be shown to be worth the cost.
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NewsDelays to PM's £100m nursing programme 'politically difficult'
A member of the group overseeing Downing Street’s drive to supply nurses with IT has expressed concern that tight timescales were leading to the exclusion of nurses from the project’s design, HSJ has discovered.
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NewsNMC to vote on proposals for nurse revalidation
Nurses and midwives may have to collect positive feedback from patients and colleagues every three years in order to remain on the register, under proposals for the revalidation of the profession.
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HSJ Local
Nurse who viewed Nazi websites struck off
A mental health nurse who put patients at risk while he surfed the internet looking for torture, rape and Nazi websites has been struck off by the nursing watchdog.
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NewsNew end-of-life care group planned
The government is expected to announce a new coalition to examine end-of-life care in response to the scrapping of the controversial Liverpool care pathway.
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NewsCQC inspectors failed to refer 'uncaring' staff to regulators
Care Quality Commission inspectors who witnessed “unacceptable behaviour” at Whipps Cross Hospital failed to refer any staff to their professional regulators, HSJ has learnt.
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NewsAgency staff spending expected to rise
Spending on agency staff in NHS hospitals is predicted to climb as frontline pressures intensify, according to a report shared with Health Service Journal.
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HSJ KnowledgeWhat nurses can teach CCGs about procurement
Their experience can help reduce waste and save time
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NewsBerwick nursing adviser says report was 'specific' on staffing
The Berwick report tacitly backed staffing ratios and the regulation of healthcare assistants in its recommendations, according to the senior nurse involved in the NHS patient safety review.
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NewsBerwick chief: review critics 'miss the point'
Critics who complained the Berwick review into patient safety was too “soft” are “fundamentally missing the point”, one of the review group’s leading members has told HSJ.
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NewsChief nurse says major problems now harder to hide
England’s chief nursing officer Jane Cummings has said it is now much harder for an NHS hospital to “hide” poor staffing on the scale seen at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsBerwick: Staff responsible for neglect should face jail
NHS staff should face jail in cases of “neglect or wilful misconduct”, the high profile review tasked with making zero harm care a reality in the NHS has recommended.
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NewsHalf of Keogh trusts had issues with raising of staff concerns
Staff reported problems raising patient safety concerns at half of the 14 acute trusts investigated in the Keogh review, analysis by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has revealed.
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NewsNurses found guilty over Mid Staffs insulin death
Two senior nurses at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been found guilty of failing to ensure a patient with diabetes and dementia received vital insulin medication.
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NewsMid Staffs A&E sisters struck off by NMC
Two former accident and emergency nurses who altered patient discharge times to meet waiting time targets at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have been struck off the nursing register.
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NewsFormer Mid Staffs nursing director distances herself from staff shortages
A former chief nurse at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has blamed frontline staff for chronic shortages of nurses.
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NewsMid Staffs cases set to resume at NMC today
A fitness to practise case against a former chief nurse at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has resumed today.
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HSJ Local
Keogh review highlights staffing challenges at Blackpool Teaching Hospitals
WORKFORCE: Nurse staffing levels were not always sufficient across Blackpool Teaching Hospitals and in need of urgent review, particularly on elderly care wards, the Keogh review has found.