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    • Specialist nurses make a difference

      Briefing overview of the role and contribution of specialist nurses to patient care, clinical outcomes and health service provision in a context of future reduced NHS funding.

    • BRIEFING: Nursing Workforce Shortages: 21 Missed Warnings

      RCN report on the missed warnings on the workforce shortage.

    • Nursing and the Economic Downturn

      A roundtable discussion on Nursing and the economic downturn was held on 25 August 2009 at RCN headquarters in London. An invitation only meeting, it brought together prominent figures in nursing together with leading external thinkers and influencers who ordinarily have relatively little direct involvement in developing nursing policy. The roundtable was held in order to explore issues further regarding the creation of a Commission on the Future of Nursing and Midwifery in England, which was announced on 17 March by the Prime Minister.

    • Influencing health scrutiny

      This policy guidance was produced by Andrew Christaki, Assistant RCN Officer in the South West Regional Office, with the support of the RCN Policy Unit. Its aim is to assist regional boards and staff to work effectively with their respective Local Government Overview and Scrutiny Committees.

    • NHS expenditure on external consultants

      In the budget for 2009, it was announced that the Department of Health will be contributing £2.3 billion in additional savings to the overall reduction in Government expenditure and borrowing. Health Secretary at the time, Alan Johnson, said:"Better quality, safe health care goes hand in hand with better value for money" and NHS Chief Executive David Nicholls has written to the NHS stating that "the value-for-money challenge will be met through delivering on our quality agenda, not instead of it." However, several reports are already suggesting that there will inevitably be cuts in frontline services, training budgets, and investment in new facilities. The RCN is constantly alerted to the impact of external financial factors on patient care in the NHS. In order to better understand how the NHS was using its resources in these uncertain economic times, the RCN wrote to over 550 NHS organisations across the UK under the Freedom of Information Act and asked for a breakdown of their expenditure on external consultants.

    • Dealing with Knife Injuries

      Many nurses are unaware of their rights and obligations concerning the reporting of knife enabled crime to the police. With reference to recent changes to guidance given to doctors by the General Medical Council, and in response to nurses concerns, this updated document explains some of the medico-legal, ethical and professional issues behind disclosing information and looks at the importance of the nursing role in several innovative schemes designed to tackle the problem of knife crime.

    • The assistant practitioner role

      This document considers some of the key policy issues regarding the emergence of the role of the assistant practitioner in health care. They are: the remit and purpose of the role; reasons for the introduction of this role; the role in the wider health care workforce context including workforce numbers, nursing workload and the deployment of registered nurses. The nursing profession must hold a robust debate on all the above because the assistant practitioner role must be linked to a vision for both the future configuration of the nursing workforce, and the future function and contribution of nursing to health care within that.

    • A short guide to World Class Commissioning

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    • Intergrated care pilots

      The Government regards integration as one remedy for the fragmentation of services, which has been identified as a barrier to providing more effective and personalised care. The purpose of the above briefing is to outline how the Government is taking forward its integrated care agenda through the development of a number of integrated care pilots and to obtain feedback from members on the development of these pilots.

    • eHealth and nursing practice – Abbreviations

      eHealth and nursing practice: Abbreviations and other short forms in patient/client records.

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