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POLICY - The landscape for bed-based intermediate care in Scotland
This report describes how intermediate care beds are being provided in Scotland. It also looks at the benefits of high quality bed-based intermediate care as part of integrated health and social care services.
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POLICY - Tool to support nursing leaders making decisions about bed-based intermediate care
Bed-based intermediate care is an important model of care to help people to avoid hospital or get home sooner. This tool from RCN Scotland sets out what nursing staff should consider when making decisions about bed-based intermediate care.
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PARLIAMENT - Named Person Service and the Children & Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill Written Evidence
RCN Scotland submitted evidence to the Scottish Parliament’s Education and Skills Committee’s call for views on the Children and Young People (Information Sharing) (Scotland) Bill.
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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 like to thank all of you who responded. The European Commission has now issued a Green Paper with options for revising the rules including language testing, alerts on fitness to practise, and updating the minimum education requirements for nurses. This RCN briefing is linked to a short survey seeking views on these specific options.
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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.
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Frontline First: Congress 2011 update
The RCN believes that when trusts are planning reductions or changes to NHS services these plans must be accompanied by robust risk and impact assessments to explicitly demonstrate that quality and safety of patient care will not be detrimentally affected.
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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.
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Personal health budgets
This paper seeks to provide a broad overview of personal health budgets (PHBs) including what they are and what they aim to do, the findings of the current pilots, key issues for the RCN and the RCN’s position.
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Working in rapid political change case study
This briefing provides a review of how the RCN Policy and International Department approached one of the biggest reform proposals to the NHS in England.
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Social enterprise and mutual organisations in the delivery of NHS funded healthcare
This paper provides an overview of the current policy context around the role of social enterprise, including mutuals or employee-led organisations, in delivering NHS-funded healthcare.
