All Nursing articles – Page 83
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LeaderCommunity services: get off your bikes
Community services need to raise their sights if they are to be ready for the funding squeeze.
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NewsFT confirms two suspensions over A&E 'irregularities'
A foundation trust has suspended its nursing director after launching an investigation into allegations of “irregularities” in its accident and emergency waiting times figures.
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NewsNHS calls on retired staff to help win swine flu fight
The NHS is calling on thousands of retired doctors, nurses and other staff to work if the swine flu pandemic gets worse.
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News‘Unprecedented’ review by PCT finds progress after Mid Staffs scandal
South Staffordshire primary care trust has published what it calls an “unprecedented” review of care at Mid Staffordshire foundation trust, after installing its own staff to check on standards.
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NewsLabour calls for wider C diff probe
Labour has called for an inquiry into an outbreak of C difficile that caused nine deaths at a hospital in Scotland to be extended across the country.
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NewsLords raise questions on swine flu preparedness
The Lords science and technology committee has highlighted “serious questions” about the UK’s preparedness for swine flu.
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NewsHealth partnership aims to put nursing at its ‘heart’
The King’s Health Partners academic health science centre has outlined how nursing and midwifery will be “at the heart” of its work.
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NewsUnison to spend £1m promoting worth of public services
A £1m campaign to promote public services has been launched by Unison.
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CommentStephen Eames on the need to make changes
Sunday morning and it looks as if it is going to be a hot day - a precursor to a long hot summer dominated by organising surge plans to combat pandemic flu, while digesting the impact of another central initiative on quality, innovation, improvement and productivity, otherwise known as “QIPP”.
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LeaderKeep calm and carry on: staff, like patients, need reassuring
HSJ and Nursing Times’s survey this week of almost 1,500 staff reveals a national health service largely confident in its ability to cope with the swine flu pandemic, but concerned their jobs are being made more difficult by hype and hysteria.
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NewsDepartment of Health asked to consider increased regulation
Experts calling for “radical” changes to the regulation of NHS workers have asked the Department of Health to consider whether managers could be covered by the proposals.
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CommentSurvey: How do you think the NHS is coping with swine flu?
Health Service Journal and Nursing Times would like to hear about the experience of swine flu by NHS staff so we can share with you, via our magazines and websites, how nurses and managers are feeling and what support they are getting.
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NewsTrusts still fail to give whistleblowers a voice
More than a decade after trusts were told to give staff ‘maximum freedom of speech’, health workers are still scared to raise concerns about care. We look at why whistleblowers are not getting the protection they deserve
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CommentThe social care green paper: What's in it for the NHS?
NHS managers could be forgiven for asking why they should be interested in the government’s long-awaited Green Paper on adult social care. The prospect of swine flu, shifting political priorities and impending fiscal gloom might seem enough to worry about.
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NewsKings Fund chief executive Niall Dickson to join regulator
King’s Fund chief executive Niall Dickson will leave the think tank in January to take up a role as chief executive of a healthcare regulator.
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CommunityA nasty shock to the Googles
Hsj.co.uk, is all for responding to web users’ demand for content, but some requests will probably never be fulfilled.
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NewsComplaints against nurses to NMC up by nearly a fifth
There was an 18 per cent increase in the number of complaints made to the Nursing and Midwifery Council from 2007-08 to 2008-09.
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NewsBurnham 'not ruling out' Mid Staffordshire probe
Health secretary Andy Burnham has said he is “not ruling out” a public inquiry into the Mid Staffordshire foundation trust scandal.
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NewsFormer NMC chief executive got £122,000 payoff
Former Nursing and Midwifery Council chief executive Sarah Thewlis received a payoff of nearly £122,000 after resigning last year, according to the regulator’s accounts.
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Blogs
The future of nursing and midwifery
As a commission looks at what skills and competencies nurses and midwives need for the future, Martha Lane Fox tells the NHS what it was like to be on the receiving end of the NHS following a major accident. Do nurses need a degree? What makes a good nurse? And ...