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POLICY: The Modern Outpatient
In broad terms, there are key messages in the Modern Outpatients document which align to RCN priorities. However, the document sets out an ambitious programme of reform in just three years.
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POLICY - Enhanced care in the palm of their hand: Developing mobile technologies for Scotland’s district nursing teams
This report provides an insight into how mobile technologies can support district nursing teams to work more effectively with people in their own home or care home. It looks at where Scotland is today in the use of these technologies, and makes recommendations for what needs to happen to make them a reality for nursing teams on the ground.
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POLICY - Tool to support nursing leaders making decisions about bed-based intermediate care
Bed-based intermediate care is an important model of care to help people to avoid hospital or get home sooner. This tool from RCN Scotland sets out what nursing staff should consider when making decisions about bed-based intermediate care.
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POLICY - RCN response to the Scottish Government consultation on a Safe and Effective Staffing Bill
RCN Scotland consultation response, setting out how legislation could ensure safe and effective staffing and impact positively on the safety and quality of care and the outcomes for individuals using services by ensuring that the right staff with the right skills are in place to deliver care in all settings and at all times.
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PARLIAMENTARY: Community healthcare staff parking charges
RCN Scotland’s response to the Scottish Parliament's Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee inquiry on the petition to exempt community healthcare staff from parking charges
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The Nursing Workforce in Scotland 2024
Scotland’s nursing workforce crisis shows little sign of improvement. Years of underinvestment and a lack of workforce planning is being compounded by poor population health, increasing clinical need and the fallout from the pandemic. This combination paints a desperate picture.
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POLICY - The landscape for bed-based intermediate care in Scotland
This report describes how intermediate care beds are being provided in Scotland. It also looks at the benefits of high quality bed-based intermediate care as part of integrated health and social care services.
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PARLIAMENTARY: National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 2)
RCN Scotland’s response to the Scottish Parliament call for views on draft amendments to the National Care Service (Scotland) Bill (Stage 2)
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Nursing Workforce in Scotland - review of progress November 2024
'Little sign improvement' is the verdict in our review of progress on the 10 recommendations made in May’s Nursing Workforce in Scotland report.
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RCN Employment Survey - Scotland Summary
A summary of the views of RCN members in Scotland which paints a detailed picture of members’ professional lives across the NHS and the independent health and social care sector.
