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Glossary of Terms
An A- Z of terms used in discussions about health and social care reform.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
The NHS in England
A briefing detailing the final stages of the NHS reforms for 2006-07 and 2007-08.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Trust, assurance and safety
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.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
BRIEFING: Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill – Second reading 10 February 2025
The Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Bill Illegal Migration Bill was introduced to the House of Commons on 30 January 2025. The Bill is predominately focused on law enforcement powers and the Border Security Command.
Updated: 12 February 2025 -
Modernising Nursing Careers
This briefing summarises the key issues, how the work was to be taken forward and the RCN's involvement.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
NHS reforms, Que Sera? Whatever will be, will be?
This report takes the form of discussion document and gives opportuinty for RCN members to consider and respond to a range of questions relating to the future design and functions of the NHS, based upon a vision for the NHS of the future, which was presented by the Secretary of State for Health in E...
Updated: 8 September 2015 -
Two consultation documents from Modernising Nursing Careers
Two significant consultations in relation to Modernising Nursing Careers were launched in November 2007: one from the Nursing and Midwifery Council regarding the future content and level of pre registration nurse education and the other from the English Department of Health regarding post registrati...
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
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.
Updated: 8 September 2015 -
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.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
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 R...
Updated: 23 March 2017
