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NewsFrancis report: RCN labelled 'ineffective'
Robert Francis QC has described the Royal College of Nursing as “ineffective”, both as a professional organisation and as a trade union. He said it should consider separating its two roles.
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NewsFrancis report: healthcare assistants will face regulation
Healthcare support workers should be subject to regulation by the Nursing and Midwifery Council, Robert Francis QC has said.
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NewsRCN 'acutely aware' of lessons from Francis report
The Royal College of Nursing has acknowledged it has “lessons to learn” from the way it handled events surrounding the care failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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Government backs down from plan to abolish specialist regulators
The government has backed down from plans to abolish two specialist regulators and transfer the majority of their responsibilities to the Care Quality Commission.
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NewsNHS should have done more to manage hospital consultants, NAO reports
The NHS should have made more progress in improving its management of hospital consultants since the introduction of a 2003 contract giving them a significant pay increase, the National Audit Office has found.
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News'Plethora' of NHS bodies and regulators failed to act on warning signs
A “plethora” of agencies, commissioners, regulators and professional bodies failed for years to act on warning signs which should have alerted the NHS system to serious failings at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust, the Francis report has concluded.
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NewsFrancis live: Monitor will survive as an economic regulator
Live comment, analysis and reaction to the Francis inquiry into systemic failure to safeguard patients at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsEXCLUSIVE: Safety data reveals trusts bucking the improvement trend
HSJ analysis has identified the NHS providers whose patients are suffering increasing levels of avoidable harm, bucking a national trend of continuous month-on-month improvement.
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NewsCapita faces NHS Choices axe
The future operating model of the website at the centre of the drive to extend choice in the NHS faces fresh uncertainty after the Cabinet Office blocked the renewal of a contract with the existing supplier.
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NewsFrancis report: Cameron will respond after meeting Mid Staffs families
Prime minister David Cameron has met with families and campaigners ahead of the publication of the Francis report into care failures at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsMedics question rationale of Lewisham downgrade
The health secretary has approved plans to downgrade the first hospital using failure regime legislation. However, the downgrade is subject to conditions, the details of which remain unclear.
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NewsMid Staffs myths exposed: the truth about death rates, whistleblowers and the inquiry
Shaun Lintern addresses some of the myths that surround the scandal of poor care at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust.
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NewsNMC clears Mid Staffs former nursing director
A former director of nursing at Mid Staffordshire Foundation Trust has been cleared of any wrong-doing by the Nursing and Midwifery Council.
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NewsNHS flaws 'led to scandal' - Taylor
Perverse incentives, which mean it is better for NHS managers to allow standards of care at hospitals to fall rather than admit they are failing, led to the scandal at Stafford Hospital, a health service expert has said.
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NewsSelbie: 'The NHS is not the same as health'
The chief executive of Public Health England has urged a fundamental rethink of how illness and wellbeing are perceived, stating: “The NHS is not the same as health.”
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NewsRegister now to read HSJ's unrivalled coverage of the Francis report
HSJ will be devoting twice as many journalists to the coverage of tomorrow’s Francis report on Mid Staffordshire as any other media organisation.
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NewsHSJ live: rolling news 5.2.2013
New court rules may affect clinical negligence cases and the rest of today’s news as the NHS gears up for tomorrow’s Francis report
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NewsCCG leaders claim confidence in detecting and preventing care failure
CCG leaders say they would detect and prevent a serious care failure, an HSJ barometer survey reveals.
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NewsAnalysed: primary care rebate schemes
This week’s HSJ Briefing looks at primary care rebate schemes which, it is hoped, will lead to savings on drugs bills