It’s time to start looking after nurses to boost careFrancis report into Mid Staffs
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Exclusive: Francis criticises nurse leadership
The nursing profession and its leaders have failed to adequately respond to the problems highlighted by the care failings at Mid Staffordshire, according to Robert Francis QC.
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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
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Peter Carter: RCN 'let down' by the government over staffing
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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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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
How to apply Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards aim to protect patients and staff when patients lack capacity to make decisions for themselves
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: 'The plan to make students work as HCAs is wrong on so many levels'
The healthcare assistant proposal is expensive, will lead to an unstable workforce and it adds risks to patient care, says Trish Morris-Thompson
The Big Question
The big question: have nursing leaders responded adequately to the Francis report?
In an exclusive interview with Nursing Times, chair of the Mid Staffordshire inquiry Robert Francis QC has said the nursing profession and its leaders have failed to adequately respond to the problems highlighted in his report.
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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
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'Paperwork is important but some of it must be culled'
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How nurses can lead from the frontline
Practice blog
Are nurses too quick to use rapid tranquillisation?
Rapid tranquillisation on mental health wards is much-debated.
mid staffordshire news
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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
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Exclusive: staff must be free to raise safety concerns, says trust chief exec
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Birmingham trust moves to supervisory status for sisters
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Duty of candour could lead to criminal prosecution
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RCN has 'urgent questions' on plan for students to spend year as HCAs
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DH rejects 'older person's nurse' role
