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POLICY: SSSC - A register for the future Consultation
RCN Scotland agrees with the proposal to simplify and streamline the registration process for registrants to be as easy and smooth as possible.
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POLICY: Resource Spending Review Framework Consultation
RCN Scotland response to the Scottish Government’s Resource Spending Review Framework Consultation
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POLICY: Mental Welfare Commission consultation on Investigating deaths occurring during compulsory care and treatment under mental health legislation in Scotland
Beyond any consultation on guidance and standards for local services; the MWC should also consult on the further detail of how its new role will operate, as that detail is developed. This detail will be crucial in enabling the RCN, and other stakeholders, to offer a robust view on whether the process will be operable in practice, and any challenges that may arise as a result of it.
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POLICY: Proposed Drugs Death (Prevention) (Scotland) Bill
RCN members debated and subsequently passed a resolution at our 2022 Congress which called on RCN Council to lobby the UK Government to support the introduction of safer injecting facilities across the UK. RCN Scotland therefore supports any attempts to introduce overdose prevention centres in Scotland.
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Social care reform in England
On the 30 March 2010, the White Paper Building the National Care Service (NCS) was unveiled. Described as ‘an historic reform’, the White Paper is the Government’s blueprint for fundamental reform of the social care system in England to build a comprehensive NCS, free at the point of use. It follows the consultation Green Paper Shaping the Future of Care Together. In recent years, the issue of social care reform has gathered momentum and a clear consensus has emerged that reform is both necessary and urgent. Nursing has a critical relationship with social care, in delivering frontline care and providing healthcare for unmet social care needs, and social care reform is crucial for high quality care provision. However, in light of the current changing political, and challenging economic context the future of the White Paper is uncertain, and so too its vision. This briefing provides an overview of the case for reform of and recent developments in the social care system in England and, examines the key points of the White Paper.
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POLICY: National Good Food Nation Plan
RCN Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on the first National Good Food Nation Plan. RCN Scotland is supportive of the outcomes contained in the National Plan but is calling for specific targets for patients and staff access to health food.
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POLICY: Banning Conversion Practices
RCN Scotland response to Scottish Government consultation on banning conversion practices. RCN Scotland is supportive of a ban on conversion practices to include sexual orientation and gender identity.
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POLICY: Social Care: Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation in Scotland
RCN Scotland’s response to the Scottish Government’s consultation on Social Care: Independent Review of Inspection, Scrutiny and Regulation in Scotland - call for evidence
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POLICY: Gender Identity Healthcare Standards
RCN Scotland’s response to the Healthcare Improvement Scotland (HIS) consultation on Gender Identity Healthcare Standards
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Competition in the NHS in England
This policy briefing provides an update on key Department of Health guidance which affects competition in the NHS in England.
