All Francis report - recommendations articles – Page 7
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NewsNICE tenders for safe staffing guidelines support
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence is tendering for a team of outside advisers to provide economic modelling to help it draw up safe staffing guidelines.
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News'Francis effect' stalls as nurse numbers fall
The rapid increase in registered nurses employed in the NHS has stopped, with numbers now falling for the first time this year
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NewsExclusive: HEE spends £4.7m to tempt nurses back to NHS
Health Education England plans to spend almost £5m to attract thousands of nurses back into the NHS, HSJ can reveal.
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HSJ KnowledgeMaking sense of the Francis focus on leadership
How to use the ‘dispersed leadership’ concept
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NewsHospitals to put CQC 'scores on doors'
Hospitals, care homes and GP surgeries could be legally required to display their Care Quality Commission ratings to help patients make more informed choices about where they go for care.
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CommentDon't fuel fear, build on existing good practice for open NHS culture
The next Francis report should be required reading
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HSJ LocalCouncil threatens Mid Staffs with 'inevitable' legal challenge
Plans to shift maternity services away from Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust as part of its dissolution could face a legal challenge from Stafford Borough Council.
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NewsHEE puts spotlight on patient safety education
Health Education England has appointed a former president of the Royal College of Surgeons to head a panel tasked with embedding patient safety in healthcare training.
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CommentPrivate hospitals need to be more transparent about patient safety
They should be required to report all incidents
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NewsFailing hospitals 'are in denial'
Some failing NHS hospitals are ‘in denial’ about the inadequate care and services offered for patients, a top medical watchdog has said.
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CommentNigel Edwards: The squeeze is on for mental health trusts
Action is clearly been ineffective in some places
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NewsExclusive: Francis to stop the NHS's 'climate of fear' as review launches
The role of probing claims made by NHS whistleblowers could be taken out of the hands of hospital trusts, the head of a major government inquiry has indicated in an exclusive interview with HSJ.
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CommentAgeing population puts pressure on healthcare's legal landscape
There is a temptation to “practise defensively”
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CommentRemoving the NHS ringfence: the next stage for healthcare rationing
Providers under scrutiny
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LeaderSqueezed trusts will depend on initiative and DH sympathy
Acute providers lack the power to save
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Transform district nursing to stop it facing extinction
The RCN says we might see its demise within 10 years
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NewsDuty of candour extended to cover wider set of incidents
A statutory duty of candour in the NHS will cover a wider set of incidents than previously expected, and will force NHS trusts to apologise to affected patients, it has emerged.
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LeaderMore hospital nurses won’t solve the NHS’s long term problems
Recruitment needed across all care settings