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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 -
Productivity and the nursing workforce
This policy briefing describes key issues regarding nursing workforce productivity including: the context and questions pertinent to successful implementation of Releasing Time to Care; the Productive Ward; a summary of some of the technical and policy issues around nursing workforce productivity an...
Updated: 19 August 2015 -
The House of Commons health select committee: Public and patient involvement in the NHS
The House of Commons Health Select Committee recently published a report on public and patient involvement in the NHS, and has made recommendations about how this can be addressed in the context of the Local Government and Involvement in Health Bill currently going through Parliament. This briefing ...
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
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.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Community hospitals toolkit
Item one at RCN Congress 2006 demanded that we give more support to members who are striving to retain and develop the services of community hospitals. The Community Hospitals Toolkit aims to give those members and others involved in campaigns of this nature an additional resource to support their e...
Updated: 21 August 2015 -
Our NHS, our future: A world class NHS
'Our NHS, our future' is the name given to a wide-ranging review to develop what is in effect the next NHS Plan for the next 10 years of the NHS. This briefing summarises and RCN response to the interim report in October and sets out questions and solutions to some of the issues raised. Members are ...
Updated: 23 March 2017
