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Setting appropriate ward nurse staffing levels
This document provides information, tools, principles and a benchmark skill mix ratio for nurse staffing levels on NHS acute general wards.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Nurse-led social enterprise
Looking at the issues of Nurse-led social enterprise.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Department of Health's tender for commissioning NHS services
This is the first time that such a detailed set of requirements for NHS commissioners appeared in 2006, and this briefing sets out each area in full and considers the issues for nurses.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Payment by Results: Update and discussion paper
Discussion paper covering developments in PbR. Guest contributors include Jon Sussex, Deputy Director of the Office of Health Economics, and Paul Linsey, a senior mental health practitioner.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Statutory Consultation
Offering background on the legal and policy requirements for consultation where service changes are proposed, including the closure or reduction in services, this briefing also includes updated case law as well as recommendations for action by activists.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
The Local Government White Paper: Strong and prosperous communities
The Government stresses that this local government White Paper will enhance local leadership on health and well being and make it easier for local authorities and NHS bodies to work together to tackle health inequalities and to deliver better services in their local area. This briefing sets out a su...
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Price and competition in health care in England
Price competition in the NHS in England is controversial and this briefing providers an overview of some of the evidence from the English NHS and discusses price competition as part of the broader framework of funding and financing.
Updated: 7 September 2015 -
NHS Trust and SHA deficits
This briefing addresses the issues of NHS Trust and SHA deficits.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
EU Green Paper on modernising the professional qualifications directive
In January this year we sought our members' views on the EU legislation that regulates nurse education across Europe and recognition of professional qualifications to allow health professionals and others to practise in another EU country. We had over 500 responses to that questionnaire and would li...
Updated: 7 September 2015 -
Single Equality Act and healthcare
This briefing examines the application of the Single Equality Act in the context of workforce and service cuts and health care reform.
Updated: 19 August 2015
