Former chief nursing officers (CNOs) from the UK’s four nations have been sharing their experiences and the major lessons learnt from the Covid-19 pandemic. The former CNOs have been speaking in Module 3 of the UK Covid Inquiry, which is examining the ‘impact of the pandemic on healthcare across the UK’ and is currently in...
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The government will soon be reaching out to unions and staff about the country’s ‘first ever fair pay agreement’ for care professionals, a minister has confirmed. Care minister Stephen Kinnock has this week written to local authorities and adult social care services to outline the ‘critical actions’ needed across the sector to support ‘operational resilience’...
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GP practices and community services should be working with complex patients to ‘actively avoid hospital admissions’ this winter, according to NHS England (NHSE). In a letter to integrated care boards (ICBs) and trusts, NHSE set out the actions necessary to ensure delivery of ‘safe, dignified and high-quality care’ this winter, which must be an ‘overriding...
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England’s former chief nursing officer (CNO) has described the removal of the bursary for student nurses as a ‘catastrophic decision’ that has had a lasting impact on the nursing workforce and during the Covid-19 pandemic. Speaking at the UK Covid-19 Inquiry earlier today, Dame Ruth May stressed the domestic supply of future nurses and midwives...
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