Staff not confident NHS will hit £22bn savings target, finds survey
More than 95% of NHS staff do not feel confident the health service’s £22 billion efficiency savings target will be met by 2020, according to a survey. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Staff shortage remains at Colchester as CQC demands urgent action
Colchester General Hospital has been told it must make rapid improvements on its surgery and medical care inpatient wards after the Care Quality Commission found a series of problems including staffing shortages and poor record completion. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 4, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Student Nursing Times’ Freshers’ Week is back!
From 7 – 11 September, Student Nursing Times is celebrating the new term with student nurses up and down the country. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New national strategy set for nursing profession, says CNO
The chief nursing officer for England has revealed she will be launching a new strategy for the profession, saying “the landscape has changed” since the last one was devised in 2012. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Snap inspection triggered by staffing concerns at Staffordshire hospital
Staff shortages at St George’s Hospital in Stafford have raised concerns that it is unable to provide care that adequately meets patients’ needs, a Care Quality Commission inspection has found. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Care home nurses struck off after 'neglect led to patient deaths'
Three nurses have been struck off the Nursing and Midwifery Council register for poor care which in some cases led to patient deaths at a nursing home in south Wales. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
New guidance for community nurses on homeless foot health
The Queens Nursing Institute has published new guidance to “arm” community nurses with more knowledge for supporting homeless patients with foot health problems. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Cognitive dysfunction in depression 'going unnoticed and untreated'
Nurses and other healthcare professionals have been urged to recognise cognitive dysfunction in patients with depression after a survey revealed symptoms are often going unnoticed. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Exclusive: School nursing faces public health upheaval
School nursing services across the country face major upheaval, with councils preparing to integrate services following the full transfer of public health commissioning this autumn, an investigation by Nursing Times has found. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 3, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
NHS to launch major staff fitness and healthy food programme
NHS staff are to be offered a programme of fitness activities and healthy options for meals as part of a major drive to improve their wellbeing, the chief executive of NHS England will announce later today. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 2, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Concern over psychotropic prescribing for learning disability patients
People with learning disabilities are being regularly treated with psychotropic drugs normally only used to treat patients with severe mental illness, according to a new study. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 2, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Exclusive: Nurse education failing to keep up with new care models
Senior nurses have warned that nursing education is currently failing to ensure practitioners are fit for future models of care, which will require an increasing ability to move between care settings and harness a wider range of skills. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 2, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Unions issue warning over rules for agency staff spending
Unions have warned that rules for caps on nurse and midwife agency spending released today must not risk patient safety and should be looked at alongside other workforce issues rather than in isolation from them. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
NMC names new senior midwifery advisor
The Nursing and Midwifery Council has appointed Donna Ockenden as its senior midwifery advisor, one of two newly created roles providing high level advice to the regulator. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
Scottish nurse lifestyles analysed in new research
Academics at Edinburgh Napier University have launched a research project which they say aims to put nurses’ lives “in the spotlight”. (Source: Nursing Times Breaking News)
Source: Nursing Times Breaking News - September 1, 2015 Category: Nursing Source Type: news
