The worst region is the South West in which just 43% of the PCTs have an executive director with voting rights on the board.
Dr Peter Carter, RCN chief executive and general secretary, said: ‘Nurses spend more time with patients than any other health professional, so it makes sense for them to be a key part of the decisions which impact on the care that patients receive.
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This is part of Unite’s request for a large school nurse recruitment campaign. It estimated that there are now 6,900 children to every specialist school nurse in England, using NHS workforce statistics.
Due to the cervical cancer immunisation for teenage girls and the government push to have a specialist school nurse for every secondary school and its cluster of primary schools by 2010, there is also concern about the increasing Read more »
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) was given the award from the Union Learning Fund, established by the government in 1998, for a two-year project starting in April 2009.
Dr Peter Carter, RCN chief executive and general secretary, said: ‘I am delighted that the work the RCN has done with unionlearn in delivering projects over the last 10 years can continue, and that we have been able to secure this further funding of 300,000.
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Over two-thirds of health visitors (69%) feel there is not enough staff in their trust to do their job properly, compared with 45% of NHS staff overall.
More health visitors and district nurses reported that they did not have enough time to do all their work (69% and 58% respectively) than the rest of the NHS (48%).
Health minister Ann Keen said that overall, the survey showed working within the NHS to be a rewarding Read more »
The joint statement was signed by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges, the Audit Commission, the DoH, the Healthcare Financial Management Association, the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
Pledges include:
providing clinicians with information to help them better understand NHS finance and also highlighting examples of the benefits which arise from greater involvement,producing Read more »
Its report shows that some PDSNs in PCTs look after more than 150 children, compared with the recommended 70.
The charity says that such a large case load does not allow nurses the necessary time to help children manage their diabetes and give them individual advice and support.
The report also shows that the PDSN caseload in 35% of PCTs has increased since 2007 and less than 7% of PCTs have improved their PDSN caseload.
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At present, those facing such accusations are placed on the Protection of Vulnerable Adults (POVA) and Protection of Children Act (POCA) lists before their guilt has been established.
Many are only cleared after spending a year or more barred from work while they wait for their case to be heard.
But, in a test case this week, the Law Lords unanimously ruled that placing workers on such black lists was in breach of the European Read more »
If there’s anything more acute than the primary care shortage, it’s the nursing shortage.
Recruiting companies are getting desperate in their search for prospective nurse applicants, giving them money and gifts. And this is a nationwide phenomenon, with recruiters across the country “offering chair massages, lavish catering and contests for flat-screen TVs, GPS devices and shopping sprees worth as much as $1,000.”
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OBEs are awarded to Dr James Cave, a GP in Newbury, Berkshire, and nurse consultant for older people Dr Nadia Chambers from Southampton University Hospitals NHS Trust both for ‘services to healthcare’.
GPs with MBEs are Dr David Adey, from Southampton, Dr Parvin Bhatia, from Richmond, south east London, Dr Rosalie Dunn, from Blantyre, Lanarkshire, Dr Surinder Jolly, from Manchester, and Dr Alan Melville, from Fife, all Read more »
The union is urging the DoH to double the workforce by immediately recruiting an extra 2,000 qualified school nurses.
The advice follows the data from the child measurement programme showing that one in five children aged 10-11 are obese.
There are more than 3,300 secondary schools in England, and the DoH has pledged to have a school nurse to cover each of these and their surrounding clusters of primary schools by 2010.
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