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'Talking' pilot to improve NHS culture
Nurses, doctors and other healthcare professionals could be expected to hold monthly sessions to discuss the pressures they face as part of a government backed initiative to improve culture and compassion across the NHS, Nursing Times can reveal.
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Hunt agrees new powers for NMC
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Poor care 'still haunts campaigner'
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Exclusive: nursing leaders pledge action in response to Francis
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Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
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Exclusive: duty of candour must also apply to staff
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NHS leaders unveil plan to help struggling A&Es
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CQC calls for Cumberland Infirmary to improve patient care
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Next steps in HCA work for nursing students plan unveiled
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Queen's speech: new legislation to cut migrant access to NHS care
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Keogh inspection begins at Basildon hospital
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NHS 'failing to listen and learn', says ombudsman
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Trainee nurse drop-outs 'waste' £100m
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Willis: Give patients access to HCA training records
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RCN rejects split calls in row with Hunt
Latest practice
A skills development pathway for HCAs
With healthcare assistant training set to be standardised throughout the NHS, one trust has developed a programme that ensures all its HCAs are trained to the same high standards
Continence care is every nurse’s business
Francis has called for a focus on compassion and caring, continence is a vital aspect of care and nurses need to ensure high standards
compassion - changing your practice
Can clinical governance act as a cultural barometer?
Health professionals need to identify and act on the essential factors that influence quality care to create a safe and compassionate culture
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Create the right conditions for staff to deliver quality care
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Changing the culture of the health service
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'Counter the scapegoating and show the public you still care'
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Is compassion possible in a market-led NHS?
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How the 6Cs relate to clinical leaders
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Creating a culture to deliver compassionate care
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A new model of care for the older person
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Compassion: what history teaches us
leadership - changing your practice
Learning from family and nurse narratives
Narratives from the Francis reports can guide the implementation of ethical leadership and improve the organisational culture of the NHS
raising concerns - changing your practice
'Nurses must get involved in national debates to be heard'
I qualified as a nurse more than 17 years ago and, as a result of that, I have seen three governments run the NHS, continuous changes and a whole host of health-service scandals that have ended in increased scrutiny and criticism by the media and by society.
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After Francis: the government response
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Bullying in nursing and ways of dealing with it
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Mandatory registration for healthcare assistants
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Changing the culture of the health service
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Does the risk of reprisal prevent nurses in the NHS from blowing the whistle on bad practice?
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Whistleblowing: what influences nurses' decisions on whether to report poor practice?
rounding - changing your practice
After Francis: the government response
The government’s response to the Francis report contained a number of undertakings that will have a major impact on nursing
The nurse’s role in hospital ward rounds
Ward rounds are an essential aspect of good-quality care with nurses playing a vital and central role
How nurses can lead from the frontline
Organisations should introduce key nurse roles so that, over the course of a shift, patients have one nurse who is their main port of call
A toolkit to assess first impressions of healthcare
First impressions can affect patients’ perceptions of their whole care journey. A toolkit was developed to assess how care settings are perceived within 15 steps of first entry
Opinion
Trish Morris-Thompson: 'Nurses are uniting to demand safe staffing levels – join us'
We must not allow care to fail due to our lack of courage as leaders, says Trish Morris-Thompson
The Big Question
The big question: what do you consider to be safe staffing levels?
The Safe Staffing Alliance has been formed to demand mandatory nurse to patient ratios.
FRANCIS LIVE
Government response to Francis LIVE
Minute-by-minute, we’re following Jeremy Hunt’s announcement to the government on plans to overhaul the NHS, in light of the recent Francis report
francis report analysis
Continence care is every nurse’s business
Francis has called for a focus on compassion and caring, continence is a vital aspect of care and nurses need to ensure high standards
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How to apply Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
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Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
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Exclusive: duty of candour must also apply to staff
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Learning from family and nurse narratives
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Use of process mapping in service improvement
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Pinheaded weasels and bean counters
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After Francis: the government response
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'No other profession has faced the implication that it has been accepting the wrong people'
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Is workplace culture an excuse for poor care?
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Minimum training standards for HCAs
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Is workplace culture an excuse for poor care?
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Minimum training standards for HCAs
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'An honest culture is enough to protect both patients and staff'
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Recommendations on student nurse training
Practice blog
Every week needs to be dementia aware for nurses
This is Dementia Awareness week which is a good way to call attention to this common condition
mid staffordshire news
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'Talking' pilot to improve NHS culture
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Hunt agrees new powers for NMC
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Poor care 'still haunts campaigner'
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Safety not guaranteed at 18 A&Es amid 'toxic overcrowding', warn clinicians
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Exclusive: nursing leaders pledge action in response to Francis
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Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
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Exclusive: duty of candour must also apply to staff
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NHS leaders unveil plan to help struggling A&Es
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CQC calls for Cumberland Infirmary to improve patient care
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Next steps in HCA work for nursing students plan unveiled
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NHS 'failing to listen and learn', says ombudsman
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Ex-Mid Staffs chief referred to Crown Prosecution Service
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Nurses struggling to provide care on stretched wards
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Nurses free to speak out on concerns, despite 'gag' clauses, says DH
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Nurses should not assume 'acting differently' to Mid Staffs staff, says tsar
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PM should be responsible for care standards, says new patient safety tsar
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Appraisals to include feedback from nursing colleagues and patients
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Mid Staffs trust placed in administration
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Leicester Hospitals signs up to our SOS campaign
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HSE launches criminal probe into Mid Staffs patient death
