All Nursing articles – Page 80
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Dignity in care funding announced
A “bright ideas grant” to help support innovative projects that promote dignity in care has been launched by the Department of Health.
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PCTs falling behind on maternity access
More than a third of primary care trusts are failing to meet a key maternity services access target, despite claiming they have met the government’s flagship “choice guarantees” for pregnant women.
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Scheme supports patients leaving ICU
Patients leaving intensive care will be offered a new support scheme under a project being pioneered by the Royal Berkshire Foundation Trust.
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Nursing standards
In September 2010 the Nursing and Midwifery Council launched their standards for pre-registration nursing education.
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Medicines management
A review in 2007 by the Healthcare Commission into effective medicines management showed that 92% of mental health service users contacted had taken medicines.
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How to make clinical commissioning work
In Kent, clinicians and managers are working together as teams to concentrate expertise on specific clinical areas
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Call to be proactive on measuring patient experience
Financial rewards to hospitals for improving patient experience should be based around seven “core” areas of care, according to the patient charity the Picker Institute.
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Nurse policing is to be ‘more proactive’
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is to be more “proactive” in its policing of poor nursing care, including carrying out inspections of trusts, the regulator’s new chief executive has told HSJ.
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Patients could be offered one to one nursing care
Patients with complex long term conditions could be offered one to one nursing care under plans outlined by health secretary Andy Burnham today.
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Andy Burnham offers to guarantee nurses' jobs in return for less pay
Frontline NHS staff could be given a guarantee that they will be able to keep their job if they are prepared to be paid less, health secretary Andy Burnham announced today.
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Call for continued NHS investment
The Royal College of Nursing is calling for the government to maintain investment levels in the NHS to keep standards of patient care from dropping.
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Assisted suicide: life and death in the balance
Policy on the position of anyone who assists in a suicide is slowly changing, but health and care professionals must not run ahead of the law, says Corinne Slingo
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Clinical improvements could save NHS £9bn a year
The NHS could save more than £9bn in a year if trusts improved their performance in just eight “high impact” clinical areas, the chief nursing officer for England has said.
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Managers open to accusations of 'job hopping'
Senior NHS managers are laying themselves open to accusations of lack of commitment by “job hopping”, according to Royal College of Nursing chief executive Peter Carter.
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Nursing to become degree only profession
The government has rubber stamped plans for nursing in England to become a degree only profession
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NHS managers think nursing directors lack ‘clout’
Directors of nursing have lower status in their organisations than they believe, an extensive survey by HSJ and sister title Nursing Times has found.
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DH proposals threaten trainee medic posts
A major shake-up of the way trainee doctors are funded could see hospitals cut training posts for junior doctors and swap their posts for nurses, HSJ has been told.
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Nurses accused of professional protectionism
The chairman of the Royal College of GPs has criticised nurses for “professional protectionism”, saying they are undermining the development of a new type of medic.
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Productive ward frees up half a million hours
Implementing the productive ward model at acute trusts across London has freed up more than half a million additional hours of nurses’ time to dedicate to direct patient care.
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Hospitals to replace nurses with lower paid assistants to cut costs
A number of NHS hospitals are planning to replace an increasing number of trained nurses with cheaper, unregistered ‘nurses’ paid at a lower rate.