Maintain pressure on reforms to protect NHSDave West
Dave West is the Nursing Times and HSJ senior correspondent. For Nursing Times Dave covers children's nursing, midwifery, practice nursing and nurse prescribing. Over at HSJ, Dave focuses on quality and GP commissioning and consortia.
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Recent stories
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RCN: CCGs should not appoint inexperienced nurses to board roles
Nurses selected to sit on the boards of clinical commissioning groups must have “significant experience” of the whole healthcare system and “proven managerial capability”, according to guidance due to be published by the Royal College of Nursing.
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RCN and CQC back call to improve patient admission data
The Royal College of Nursing is among the organisations backing a campaign for hospitals to routinely record simple care information when a patient is admitted, such as the presence of a pressure ulcer.
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Chief nurse steps into leadership breach at struggling trust
The chief nurse at Mid Yorkshire Hospitals Trust has taken over the running of the organisation until the end of the last following the resignation of its chief executive.
- Ministers announce further amendments to health bill
- RCM: closure of Yorkshire midwife-led centre 'disappointing'
- Mid Staffs findings will 'blow the lid' on older patient care, says tsar
- RCN warns Lansley of nurse backlash but chance of anti bill consensus recedes
- Chief midwife brands Lansley's comments 'below the belt'
- MPs: NHS could miss savings target from 'salami slicing'
- Voluntary HCA plan could lead to 'formal regulation', says Mid Staffs group
