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'Display outcome data on wards to boost care and motivate staff'
The CNO for Wales Jean White explains how initiatives are helping to improve safety and quality of care
"Why don't we ask patients what they thought of their care?"
Entering into a dialogue with patients about the care we give would result in meaningful feedback
Barriers to managing and improving quality
The quality agenda in the NHS is often discussed, but research found there is confusion over what quality means and several barriers to achieving it
Nurses back collection of extra admission data
Senior nurses are calling for hospitals to record additional care quality information when patients are admitted in order to flag potential problems in other parts of the care system.
Can failure to rescue be a key indicator of patient safety?
A look at whether administrative data in English hospitals contain enough information to reliably report “failure to rescue” rates and to what extent they affect patient safety
Trusts offered bonuses for good performance on pressure ulcers
NHS trusts will be able to earn payments next year based on their performance against a “bundle” of nursing indicators on preventable harm, with particular focus on pressure ulcers.
West Sussex nurses commended for work on Productive Ward
Nurses at Western Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust have adopted the Productive Ward programme across all wards and been commended by regulators for their work on the initiative.
Nurse involvement in QIPP could make cuts less painful
The late Claire Rayner, as president of the Patients Association, was passionate about nursing and the nurse’s role in providing high quality, compassionate care in all settings.
Nursing metric used for post surgery deaths
A death rate indicator closely related to quality of nursing care and nurse numbers has highlighted four hospital trusts with higher than expected mortality.
New set of principles for nursing care launched
Patients will be able to judge the nursing care they receive against a set of eight principles published today.
Nurse director aims high for Basildon
The new nursing director at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospitals Foundation Trust has said nursing staff morale is now “very good”, and that she wants the hospital to become one of the best in the country.
Global maternity mortality declines
The number of women dying from complications during pregnancy and childbirth has fallen by more than one third in the past 18 years, according to a report from the World Health Organisation and other bodies.
Wards set to face regular scrutiny on their patient safety records
Trusts are to be routinely surveyed on their patient safety record for the first time from next month.
High impact action scores may not be collected
Hospitals may not be able to compare how well they are implementing the high impact nursing actions because the Department of Health is worried about collecting too much information.
IT system to check nurses' observation practice
A hospital trust in Birmingham is to use an IT system to identify where nurses are not carrying out patient observations properly.
Patients want choice of nurse, says RCN
The government’s planned extension of patient choice should be based on information about the quality of nursing as well as medical care, the Royal College of Nursing has said.
Death rate indicator under review
The Department of Health is struggling to reform a controversial quality indicator that has played a role in identifying hospitals with poor nursing standards.
Call to rate chemo nurse quality
Patient experience, safe medication administration and nausea and vomiting should be developed “urgently” as quality indicators for nurse delivered chemotherapy, researchers say.
Which nurse indicators are relevant to specialist nurses?
Janelle Yorke looks at nursing indicators and wonders how might they be relevant to specialist respiratory nursing?
C diff target increased to 50% in Scotland
NHS boards in Scotland are being asked to meet an increased target in the reduction of over-65s catching Clostridium difficile in their hospitals - placing the figure now at 50%.
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Stomach cancer survival rate improves
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Diabetes doubles risk of heart disease
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NHS online database launched
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First national nursing outcome measures revealed
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Services better at trusts with the happiest nurses
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Standard checklist for emergency patients to be introduced
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Accelerate work on nurse metrics
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Quality programme to highlight understaffed wards
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Nurses identify cancer nursing metrics
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Call for nursing directors to get proactive on measuring patient experience
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Older patients quality agenda differs from government
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Top nurse warns risk assessment tools are not backed by evidence
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Hospital payments to be linked to nursing indicators
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Data corroborates nurse concerns on bed pressures
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Nurses could save NHS £9bn by improving patient nutrition and taking other 'high impact' actions
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Nurses present the CNO with 580 efficiency ideas
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RCN Wales report calls for more emergency nurse practitioners
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Nurse satisfaction data to act as "safety barometer"
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CNO calls on nursing for ideas to avoid NHS 'slash and burn'
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Nurses 'must engage with new patient outcome results'
