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Care Quality Commission insights from member focus group and interviews
The RCN continues to monitor the Care Quality Commission given how important it’s role is in helping identify poor care. This briefing provides an overview of discussions at Congress in a focus group where members told us more about how they see the CQC.
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Mandatory nurse staffing levels
The attached briefing produced by the RCN Policy and International Department sets out the case for moving to a system of mandated staffing levels. The RCN believes that the development of safe mandatory nurse to patient ratios is crucial to the future of the NHS, and that improved patient outcomes will not be delivered without them.
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Making it work
Shared decision-making with people with learning disabilities will bring health care professionals and nurses in particular, into a process in which both parties jointly decide on health care treatments, management plans and support packages, based on the best available evidence and the informed choices of people with learning disabilities.
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POLICY BRIEFING: The RCN and the European Union
EU policies and legislation have had a major impact on policy issues that directly impact on nurses’ working lives, such as employment rights; equal opportunities; health and safety at work; environmental protection and food safety. As an EU member country we are part of a system for recognising nurses’ qualifications which allows UK nurses to practise in other European countries and lays down common minimum standards for nursing and midwifery education across the EU.
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Personal health records and information management
This briefing summarises the RCN vision for personal health information management, how ICT can support this vision and what needs to be done to overcome barriers to achieve the changes required. It is intended to inform all aspects of records development, record standards development and nursing educational programmes.
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RCN factsheet: Commissioning support services
Short briefing on commissioning support services and commissioning support units, two of the new types of organisation formed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
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NHS failure regime
This briefing provides an overview of the current and future approaches to an NHS failure regime.
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RCN factsheet: Health and wellbeing boards
Short briefing on health and wellbeing boards, one of the new types of organisation formed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
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Our NHS care objectives
The Department of Health published a draft mandate to the NHS Commissioning Board on 4 July 2012. The mandate is the mechanism that the Secretary of State for Health will use to set out what the NHS Commissioning Board has to deliver. The consultation on the draft mandate runs until 26 September.
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Alcohol policies to reduce alcohol-related harm in England
RCN’s prevention work is underpinned by the principle that we should empower individuals with the information they need to understand the impact of alcohol misuse and make healthier lifestyle choices.
