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Frontline First: Congress 2012 update
In this report we analyse official statsitics to assess the health of the nursing workforce and warn that the NHS may be sleepwalking into a crisis.
Updated: 24 August 2015 -
Paying for Quality
Commissioning for Quality and Innovation (CQUIN) is a contract which aims to pay for quality. This briefing tells you more about this initiative in England and sets out some principles to help guide views on what makes a ‘good’ CQUIN.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Draft regulation on clinical trials on medicinal products for human use and repealing 2001/20/EC
The RCN has produced a short briefing on key issues in the draft regulation which impact on nursing. We will now be working with key stakeholders during the passage of the draft legislation.
Updated: 4 September 2015 -
NHS England (previously known as the NHS Commissioning Board)
This briefing provides an overview of the work of the NHS Commissioning Board, with a particular focus on the nursing input and the RCN’s perspective
Updated: 24 August 2015 -
Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) in England
Quality Innovation Productivity and Prevention (QIPP) in England is a national programme to deliver quality, innovation, productivity and prevention in the NHS. This briefing provides details on the programme and asks for more transparency so that the public, patients and staff can know what QIPP me...
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
The community nursing workforce in England
In the last decade parallel goals for financial efficiency in the NHS and for care pathways which deliver the best outcomes for patients have aligned to ensure a consistent policy objective to move care out of acute (hospital) settings and into people's homes and communities.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Social care reform in England
Nursing plays a distinct and critical role in health and social care as nursing staff frequently work on the interface between the two care systems.
Updated: 3 September 2015 -
Social care reform
The long awaited care and support white paper and an accompanying draft bill and progress report on funding reform were published on 11 July 2012. Much of the content of the white paper and bill were derived from the Government’s consultation on social care reform that the RCN responded to in Decemb...
Updated: 3 September 2015 -
RCN factsheet on nurse prescribing in the UK
Updated December 2014. Over the years, the RCN’s Policy and International Department has received a lot of interest from national nurses’ associations to find out more about nurse prescribing in the UK and the evidence to support it. This fact sheet discusses statistics, education, training and regu...
Updated: 21 August 2015 -
RCN factsheet: Clinical senates and strategic clinical networks
Short briefing on clinical senates and strategic clinical networks, two new types of organisation formed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Updated: 23 March 2017
