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Audit Scotland continues to call for clear strategies and plans for NHS reform
Audit Scotland publishes damning report about the Scottish government’s stewardship of the NHS.
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Royal College of Nursing responds to the Nuffield Trust report ‘Practice learning in nursing and midwifery education’
RCN UK Head of Nursing Practice Stephen Jones said: “High quality practice placements are crucial to a student nurse’s education to develop their skills and prepare them to join our brilliant profession. But as this report makes clear, an overstretched workforce and under-resourced healthcare system cannot guarantee a high-quality learning environment."
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Barely a spare bed in NHS hospitals, says Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director for RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “As the Prime Minister speaks, thousands of NHS patients needing treatment today are being cared for in corridors. He did not create this crisis, but he is now responsible for it and must start to find some answers."
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Tackling nursing crisis crucial to achieving Prime Minister’s plan, says Royal College of Nursing
Executive Director of RCN England, Patricia Marquis, said: “To achieve his plan, the Prime Minister needs to join the dots between hitting NHS targets and solving the crisis in nursing. We deliver the vast majority of care, but our workforce is severely depleted and recruitment is collapsing."
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Managing the Disposal of Pregnancy Remains
This updated publication provides clear guidance for all health care professionals, to ensure they have in place robust systems and processes for the safe and appropriate disposal of pregnancy remains, where the pregnancy has ended before the 24th week of gestation. This includes following an ectopic pregnancy, early intrauterine fetal death, miscarriage, or a medically or surgically induced termination of pregnancy.
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Charitable funding and other sources of help
If you're unable to afford your living costs, essential home repairs or disability related costs, find out about charitable funding, grants, food banks and more
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Workforce strategy must underpin health and social care reform
Our latest ‘The Nursing Workforce in Scotland’ report shows the pressures on Scotland’s health and care system and the ongoing nursing workforce crisis have shown little sign of improvement.
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The Nursing Workforce in Scotland
The report shows that while the gap between planned staffing and actual staffing has reduced, at no point has NHS Scotland employed the number of nursing staff needed to deliver safe and effective care. In social care, the gap is widening as clinical need increases and the number of registered nurses working in care homes continues to decline.
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CANCELLED: Becoming a student activist
This webinar has unfortunately been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances.
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Our work
What the RCN Learning Disability Nursing Forum is working on now and what they will be working on in the near future.
