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Ensuring a fit for purpose future nursing workforce
Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Head of School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Southampton, has generated this paper to promote discussion and the views expressed are those of Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark alone. This paper has been published on the RCN website in order to generate debate about Modernising Nursing Careers and the future for pre- and post-registration nurse education and career pathways.
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Our NHS, our future: A world class NHS
'Our NHS, our future' is the name given to a wide-ranging review to develop what is in effect the next NHS Plan for the next 10 years of the NHS. This briefing summarises and RCN response to the interim report in October and sets out questions and solutions to some of the issues raised. Members are encouraged to enage in the 'Our NHS, our future' process and can find advice on how to do that at the end of the briefing.
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Untapped potential: A survey of RCN nurses working in mental health
This policy briefing accompanies the RCN survey of the same name that looks specifically at NHS mental health nurse staffing and the related issues of workload, work satisfaction and the use of nursing skills. The briefing summarises the research and sets out principles for undertaking reviews of nurse staffing.
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The legal and policy issues for a PCT in England to have a nurse at board level and consideration of board nurse competencies
On the 21 February the white paper on professional regulation was published, Trust, Assurance and Safety - the Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century. The white paper will affect how nurses are regulated in the future.
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The House of Commons health select committee: Public and patient involvement in the NHS
The House of Commons Health Select Committee recently published a report on public and patient involvement in the NHS, and has made recommendations about how this can be addressed in the context of the Local Government and Involvement in Health Bill currently going through Parliament. This briefing paper sets out the key issues raised by the Health Select Committee along with some RCN positions. The RCN is lobbying to retain the existing statutory requirements for consultation.
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Mergers, Markets and Monitor
As the numbers of NHS Foundation Trusts passes 50, this update consideres the implications of financial failure, trust mergers and the potential for takeovers of and by NHS Foundation Trusts in an increasingly plural health care economy.
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Community hospitals toolkit
Item one at RCN Congress 2006 demanded that we give more support to members who are striving to retain and develop the services of community hospitals. The Community Hospitals Toolkit aims to give those members and others involved in campaigns of this nature an additional resource to support their efforts.
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Social enterprise update
This second Policy Unit briefing on social enterprise reviews the announcement made by the DH of 25 "Pathfinder" social enterprises in the provision of health and social care and identifies the priorities which the RCN believes must be addressed if the social enterprise model is to form a meaningful part of the government's commitment to increasing the plurality of providers in health and social care.
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The Regulation of Health Care Support Workers
The RCN has a clear view that all HCSWs should be regulated in the interests of public protection and patient safety. Further we believe that HCSWs who deliver direct clinical care alongside registered nurses in the nursing team should be regulated by the nursing regulatory body, the NMC . However we acknowledge the complexities that surround implementation of HCSW regulation. Therefore the RCN believes a pragmatic first step forwards in an evolutionary process towards HCSW regulation is the regulation of assistant practitioners in nursing by the NMC.
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Modernising Nursing Careers 2
This paper is an update on a previous RCN policy briefing on Modernising Nursing Careers published in April 2007.
