All Royal College of Nursing (RCN) articles – Page 17
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NewsFoundation trusts consider moving away from national pay deal
Foundation trusts are showing an unprecedented willingness to publicly consider moving away from nationally negotiated staff terms and conditions.
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NewsHealth unions unite to warn government over pensions
Unions representing workers across the health service have warned they could stage coordinated industrial action if agreement cannot be reached on the future of the NHS pension scheme.
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NewsNHS unions meeting to discuss joint walk out
Unions representing health service workers at all levels are meeting this afternoon to discuss potential industrial action over changes to the NHS pension scheme.
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NewsAcutes target community assets worth almost £3bn
Acute trusts – many of them financially troubled – are set to inherit community service assets worth £2.7bn, creating the possibility property will be offloaded to hit short term savings targets, HSJ can reveal.
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NewsNHS Direct launches 90-day consultation
NHS Direct has launched a 90-day consultation with frontline staff on increasing out of hours working.
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NewsNew talks to begin on NHS pension contributions
Health service unions are to enter into discussions with Department of Health officials on increasing public sector pension contributions, ministers have announced today.
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NewsMaternity services need radical reform - RCOG
Maternity services should be radically reformed so that women receive the best care in the right place, according to a group of leading health experts.
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HSJ KnowledgeSimple steps in reducing wastage can have serious savings for NHS budgets
The big question in the health service is, where can the NHS make savings without compromising patient care? GS1 UK health sector manager Roger Lamb highlights examples where simple technology is reducing drug and stock wastage
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CommentMedia Watch: printing the unprintable on hospital closure
The papers have been jostling to say the previously unsayable this week and break the political taboo that some hospitals must close if the NHS is to remain clinically safe and financially viable.
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NewsNo requirement to include doctors and nurses on boards
Commissioning consortia should not be required to formally include doctors and nurses on their boards, the NHS Future Forum has recommended.
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NewsColleges raising entrance requirements to nursing students
Almost two thirds of institutions offering nursing degrees are increasing their entry requirements in the face of unprecedented demand for places, an investigation by HSJ’s sister title Nursing Times has revealed.
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HSJ Local
George Eliot aims to increase qualified nursing numbers
WORKFORCE: George Eliot Hospital Trust is increasing the ratio of qualified nurses to healthcare assistants. The move is part of a plan to uphold quality and efficiency while attempting to meet a cost-improvement target of 10 per cent.
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NewsAlcohol causing thousands of consultations every day, survey reveals
Alcohol was a factor in more than 5,500 GP consultations in Scotland on one day alone last month, according to a new survey.
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NewsCalls to 'save country's future nurses'
A university vice chancellor has attacked plans to cut student nursing places and called on the health secretary to “save the education of the country’s future nurses”.
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NewsMilton backs increments freeze deal amid congress heckles
Health minister Anne Milton drew heckles at the Royal College of Nursing congress after insisting a national pay increments freeze rejected by the union would remain on the table at local level.
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NewsReforms could be 'biggest disaster in history' of NHS
The Royal College of Nursing’s chief executive has insisted industrial action must remain an option for nurses and warned that the health reforms could become the “biggest disaster in the history of our public services”.
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NewsUnused drugs 'cost NHS millions'
Millions of pounds of NHS money is wasted on unused medicines that are “stockpiled” in people’s homes, nurses have said.
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NewsInfection control 'will be hit by nursing cuts'
Progress made in tackling hospital infections in Scotland could come under threat if nursing numbers are cut, representatives of the profession has warned.
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News53,000 NHS jobs 'under threat'
More than 50,000 NHS jobs face being axed, including doctors, nurses and dentists, because of government spending cuts, “destroying” claims about the funding of the health service, a new report claims.
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News'Draconian' director scared staff at Mid Staffs
Union reps at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust have told of a culture where staff were too scared to speak out because of a “draconian” director of nursing.