All Nursing articles – Page 96
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New chair for Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), the regulatory body for UK nurses and midwives, has selected the chair of its new appointments board.NMC council member Brenda Maitland will head the board, which will be responsible for recruitment, appraisal and training.Read the press release here
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News anlaysis: germinators look to Europe for next ideas in superbug war
The Dutch experience shows it is possible to get on top of MRSA and other superbugs - but it will be costly. Meanwhile, some UK hospitals are pioneering simple but effective strategies that could help turn the tide of deadly infections, writes Alison Moore
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RCN: nurses 'ready to talk'
Nurses are being held back in the boardroom by insufficient skills and the attitudes of senior managers, the Royal College of Nursing has claimed.
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Winterton announces end-of-life strategy board
Health minister Rosie Winterton has announced a 27-strong advisory board to support the development of the end-of-life care strategy.The board is chaired by national cancer director professor Mike Richards and includes chief executives of leading charities, senior clinicians and NHS and social care managers.Working groups will include: measuring the quality ...
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Nursing code gets overhaul
The Nursing and Midwifery Council is reviewing its rulebook for UK nurses and midwives. The Code of Conduct is to be made clearer and updated to reflect today's healthcare needs.The draft code was agreed in December and the NMC will be holding a series of focus groups and seminars around ...
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Winners of the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows award scheme
Sixteen healthcare professionals have been selected to join the Health Foundation's prestigious Leadership Fellows award scheme.
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Draft workforce strategy reveals glut of consultants and shortage of nurses
HSJ reveals the draft NHS pay and workforce strategy for 2007 spending review.
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Workforce plans predict 'bitter opposition' and 'volatility'
The NHS is facing a huge oversupply of consultants and a shortage of thousands of nurses, junior doctors and GPs, a draft government strategy has revealed.
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SHAs told they must plug shortfall of 14,000 nurses
A shortage of more than 14,000 nurses by 2011 could cripple NHS organisations as they struggle to meet patient demand for services.
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'Market rates for nurses' plan
Nurses' pay could be dictated by local market rates under proposals being discussed by the board of the Department of Health.
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DoH plans mark rewriting of relationship with professions
If one image of the dole queue helped finish off Labour in 1979, just imagine what might happen if the jobless wore white coats. The prospect of making large numbers of consultant posts redundant is one rarely articulated in public. That changes this week with HSJrevealing ...
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Two more dates confirmed for Good Management Live
Two new dates have been confirmed for the next set of Good Management Live dates - dealing with the application of lean techniques and with length of stay.
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RCN to discuss strike action
Nurses could be balloted over industrial action following a meeting held this week.
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Alarm as diabetes jobs are slashed
More than a quarter of specialist diabetes nurses say trusts have cut posts and some nurses been made redundant, according to a survey.
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Nursing chief is good and bad cop all in one
The Royal College of Nursing's general secretary, Peter Carter,.has altered its stance on reconfiguration, plurality and the wisdom of heckling Hewitt. But he promises fierce opposition to poor management and short-term cuts
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MPs' response to angry nurses leaked
The Labour Party has given MPs a model letter to help them deal with nurses furious at last week's below-inflation pay award.
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Nurses ready to strike over pay award
Nurses have said they are prepared to strike over this year's pay award.
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Maternity services are everyone's baby
Labour's most recent election manifesto promised that by 2009 all women would have choice on where and how they have their baby.
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Health unions back findings
Chief executives' views mirror closely what Royal College of Nursing and Unison members are saying about the NHS reforms, say the unions' leaders.
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HSJ Knowledge
Best practice: stopping patients falling in hospital
When a patient falls in hospital it betrays the principle that a doctor - and by extension the healthcare system - should do no harm.