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Tag Archives: Openness
Professionalism in Nursing and Midwifery (NMC)
Summary The Nursing and Midwifery Council has published a guide to professionalism in the practice of nursing and midwifery, covering advice on applying the values from the Code (the code of professional conduct). This was launched on International Nurses Day, … Continue reading
Posted in For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), National, Northern Ireland, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Scotland, Standards, UK, Universal Interest, Wales
Tagged Best Interests, Best Interests of Patients, Chief Nursing Officers (CNOs), Compassionate Care, Continuous Improvement, Continuous Learning and Improvement, Continuous Learning Culture, Culture of Compassionate Care, Good Practice in Nursing and Midwifery, International Nurses Day (2017), International Nurses' Day, Jackie Smith: Chief Executive and Registrar of Nursing and Midwifery Council, Jane Cummings: Chief Nursing Officer for England, Leadership for Compassionate Care, Leading Professionally, Learning and Developing Continuously, NMC and CNOs, Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) Code of Conduct, Openness, Patient Safety, Professionalism, Professionalism in Nursing and Midwifery, Professor Charlotte McArdle: Chief Nursing Officer for Northern Ireland, Professor Fiona McQueen: Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland, Professor Jean White: Chief Nursing Officer for Wales, Putting Patients First, Safe and Compassionate Care, Transforming Care Environments
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Professional Behaviour: Guidance For Medical Schools and Students (GMC / MSC / HEE)
Summary The General Medical Council (GMC) and Medical Schools Council (MSC) have released guidance for medical students concerning professional behaviour and “fitness to practise”. This broad-ranging guidance is based on the GMC’s core “Good medical practice” code of ethics for … Continue reading
Posted in For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), Health Education England (HEE), National, NHS, Quick Insights, Standards, UK
Tagged Achieving Good Medical Practice: Guidance For Medical Students, Aggressive Violent or Threatening Behaviour, Behaviour Outside of Medical School, British Medical Association (BMA), Cautions or Convictions, Cheating or Plagiarising, Confidentiality, Conscientious Objection, Continuity and Coordination of Care, Disabled Medical Students, Dishonesty or Fraud, Doctors in Training, Drug or Alcohol Misuse, Fitness to Practise, Fitness to Practise Panels or Committees, Formal Fitness to Practise Investigations, Gateways to the Professions: Encouraging Disabled Students, General Medical Council (GMC), General Medical Council Guidance, General Medical Council: Better Care for Older People, General Medical Council’s Social Media Guidance, GMC and MSC, GMC Guidance on Disabled People in Medicine, GMC: General Medical Council, GMC’s Good Medical Practice, Good Medical Practice, Good Work-Life Balance, Guidance For Medical Students, Health Conditions Which May Affect Studies, Helping Disabled Medical Students and Doctors in Training, Honesty and Integrity, Insight, Legal or Disciplinary Proceedings, Medical Schools Council (MSC), Not Behaving in a Derogatory Manner, Openness, Partnerships With Patients, Patient Confidentiality, Patient Identifiable Information, Patient Safety, Patient Safety Improvement, Professional Behaviour, Professional Behaviour and Fitness to Practice: Domain 1: Knowledge Skills and Performance, Professional Behaviour and Fitness to Practice: Domain 2: Safety and Quality, Professional Behaviour and Fitness to Practice: Domain 3: Communication Partnership and Teamwork, Professional Behaviour and Fitness to Practice: Domain 4: Maintaining Trust, Professional Behaviour and Fitness to Practise: Professional Behaviour: Guidance for Medical Schools and Students, Professional Behaviour: Guidance For Medical Schools and Students, Professional Use of Social Media, Professionalism, Protecting Patient Identifiable Information, Raising Concerns About Dignity and Comfort of Patients, Raising Concerns About Safety, Reasons For Impaired Fitness to Practise in Medical Students, Recognising Limits to Competence and Asking For Help, Respect For Patients, Support During Fitness to Practise Investigations, Supporting Medical Students With Mental Health Conditions, Supporting Students With Mental Health Conditions and Disabilities, Teaching Training Supporting and Assessing, Treating Patients and Colleagues Fairly and Without Discrimination, Unconscious Bias, Whistleblowing Protection for Doctors in Training, Working With Doctors Working For Patients
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NHS England Publishes Official Mazars Report into Southern Health NHSFT (BBC News / Mazars / NHS England / NHS Improvement / CQC)
Summary NHS England has released the independent report by Mazars (an early copy of which was leaked a week before) concerning the deaths of people with learning disabilities or mental health problems at Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust. “The report … Continue reading
Posted in Acute Hospitals, BBC News, Commissioning, CQC: Care Quality Commission, Department of Health, For Carers (mostly), For Doctors (mostly), For Nurses and Therapists (mostly), For Researchers (mostly), For Social Workers (mostly), In the News, Integrated Care, Management of Condition, Mental Health, National, NHS, NHS England, NHS Improvement, Patient Care Pathway, Person-Centred Care, Quick Insights, Standards, Statistics, Universal Interest
Tagged Avoidable Premature Mortality, BBC Health News, BBC Panorama, Buckinghamshire, Care for Vulnerable Older People, Care of Vulnerable Adults, Care Quality Commission (CQC), Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs), Connor Sparrowhawk, Critical Incidents, Disability Mortality Review Programme, Discrimination, Dorset, FOI: Freedom of information, Freedom of Information, Guardian, Hampshire, Health Inequalities, Health Inequalities and Premature Mortality for People With Learning Disabilities, Health Inequalities in England, Hospital Episode Statistics Linked to Mental Health Minimum Data Set, Inquest (Charity), Jim Mackey: Chief Executive of NHS Improvement, Katrina Percy: Chief Executive of Southern Health NHSFT, Learning, Learning Disabilities, Learning Disabilities: Data and Information, Learning Disabilities: Improving Health Outcomes, Learning Disabilities: Monitoring Service Quality, Learning Disabilities: NHS England Initiatives, Learning Disabilities: Regulation and Inspection, Learning Disability (LD) Transforming Care Programme, Liberal Democrats, Mazars, Mazars Report into Southern Health NHSFT, Mental Health and Learning Disabilities Data Set (MHLDMDS), Mental Health Minimum Data Set (MHMDS), Mental Health Trusts, Monitor, National Learning Disabilities Mortality Review Programme, National Learning Disability Mortality Review Programme, National Reporting and Learning System (NRLS), NHS England South, Openness, Openness and Transparency, Oxfordshire, Panorama (BBC TV), Parity of Esteem, Patient Safety and Advancing Change Teams (From NHS England), People With Learning Disabilities, Prejudice, Premature Mortality, Protecting Vulnerable People, Quality Improvement, Reducing Health Inequalities, Reducing Premature Mortality, Serious Incidents Requiring Investigation (SIRIs), SIRI: Serious Incident Requiring Investigation, Southern Health NHS Foundation Trust, St rategic Executive Information System ( StEIS ), Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities, Transforming Care for People with Learning Disabilities Programme, Transparency, Transparency and Public Trust, Unexpected Deaths in Hospital, Unexpected Deaths in Mental Health Trusts, University of Bristol, Vulnerable Groups, Vulnerable Older People, Wiltshire, Working With Families
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More on Complaints Handling in the NHS (BBC News / PHSO / NHS England / Patients’ Association)
Summary Research commissioned by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman (PHSO) indicates that around only one-third of people who experience poor service from public bodies, including the NHS, in England actually make a complaint. Common reasons for not to complaining … Continue reading →