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NATIONAL NEWS UPDATE
Royal College of Nursing: Ward Sister and Charge Nurse publication launched
The Royal College of Nursing has launched a brand new report which looks at how the ward sister and charge nurse roles are working across different types of hospital trusts in England. The report findings highlight that work urgently needs to done to strengthen and support the role for the delivery of high-quality nursing.
Entitled ‘Breaking down barriers, driving up standards. The role of the ward sister and charge nurse’, the report recognises that the importance of the ward sister and charge nurse role applies universally, and where the role is supervisory, the patient care benefits. Writing in the publication foreword, RCN Chief Executive and General Secretary, Dr Peter Carter said:
“Ward sisters and charge nurses have many roles, but their responsibility is clear – to oversee patient care on a ward.
All ward sisters must have the authority and the resources to make their wards run as well as they possibly can, and this report shows that where this has already happened, patients feel the benefits”. www.rcn.org.uk
To view Breaking down barriers, driving up standards: The role of the ward sister and charge nurse click here
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The Future Role of Nurses and Midwives:
New Commission Launched
The Prime Minister Gordon Brown and Health Secretary Alan Johnson have announced a new commission of experts to advise the Government on the future role of nurses and midwives.
Leading experts in the field of nursing will:
- Identify the skills and support that frontline nurses and midwives need to take a central role in delivery care to patients
- Consider how to build on expanding roles
- Advise on how nurses can contribute to the implementation of High Quality Care for All to improve the safety and quality of patient care.
“The Commission will bring a wealth of personal experience to bear in order to ensure that we can enable nurses to deliver a world-class services in every aspect of the NHS.”
Alan Johnson, Health Secretary
For further information please click here
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Department of Health: Dementia Strategy Launched
The recently launched National Dementia Strategy provides a strategic framework within which local services can
• deliver quality improvements to dementia services and address health inequalities relating to dementia;
• provide advice and guidance and support for health and social care commissioners and providers in the planning, development and monitoring of services; and
• provide a guide to the content of high-quality services for dementia.
To view Living well with Dementia: a National Dementia Strategy click here
“The launch of the strategy injects a sense of optimism and purpose. Dementia, in the absence of a cure, is likely to continue to affect increasing numbers of people for the foreseeable future, and the introduction of this strategy is very welcome indeed.”
Dr Peter Carter Chief Executive and General Secretary Royal College of Nursing
Our NHS Our Future
Department of Health: Framing the Nursing and Midwifery Contribution: driving up the quality of care
National Nursing Research Unit at King’s College London: State of the art metrics for nursing: a rapid appraisal
National Nursing Research Unit at King’s College London: Nurses in society: starting the debate’
King’s College London, Policy +, Issue 13 October 2008; ‘High quality nursing care – what is it’ and how can we best ensure its delivery?
King’s College London, Policy +, Issue 12 October 2008 ‘Can you measure nursing?’
NHS Connecting for Health – Clinical Dashboards
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Effective Ward Manager
With the current national emphasis on improving the quality of care, this conference provides current and aspiring Ward Managers and Senior Nurses with a guide on how to effectively drive up the quality of nursing care, improve patient safety on the wards, and develop frontline staff through education, training and support.
Following opening presentations on the implications of ‘High Quality Care for All’ and implementing the use of quality metrics, the conference will include presentations on:
- Improving practice on the wards to ensure confidence in caring (Based on the Department of Health publication; ‘Confidence in Caring: a framework for best practice’ available here)
- Developing the perfect ward: The Exemplar Ward Programme (a Case Study from Bolton Hospital NHS Trust, further information available here )
- Implementing the Productive Ward (developed by the NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement, available here)
- Towards Zero – eliminating all avoidable healthcare associated infections on the ward (presentation by Janice Stevens Programme Director MRSA/Cleaner Hospitals Team Department of Health, further information available here)
- Monitoring and observing patients on the wards and recognising deterioration (based on the NICE guidance for Acutely Ill Patients in Hospital, available here )
- Monitoring patient safety and reporting incidents on the wards (following the development of the NPSA Foresight Training Resource Pack available here )
- Developing your leadership and management skills (with a case study presentation on developing a new role of the Ward Matron at Heatherwood and Wexham Park Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust)
Conference date: Wednesday 22nd April 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
Please note this conference is now full however the conference will be repeated on Tuesday 20th October for more
information please email hannah@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
Department of Health
Royal College of Nursing
Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Foundation of Nursing Leadership
Matrons Network
Star Wards
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Acutely Ill Patients on the Wards
Based on the NICE guidance ‘Acutely ill patients in hospital’ and the recent NPSA safety report ‘Recognising and responding appropriately to early signs of deterioration in hospitalised patients’, this conference provides a practical guide to recognising and responding to the early deterioration of acutely ill patients on the wards.
The NPSA safety report explores patient deterioration and helps NHS staff working in acute hospitals to improve patient safety.
‘We welcome this report as a further contribution to improving patient care in this area. The NICE guideline, offers advice on the care of adult patients who are or become acutely ill while in hospital, and advises how serious problems can be avoided.
I hope that NHS staff will use this report and the NICE guideline to significantly improve the care and safety of acutely ill patients.’
Andrew Dillon Chief Executive NICE
Tracy Pilcher Member NICE Implementation Planning Group Nurse Consultant Critical Care United Lincolnshire Hospitals Trust and Chair British Association of Critical Care Nurses (BACCN) will give an overview of moving forward with the NICE and NPSA guidance, with a focus on key priorities for implementation and the contribution of frontline ward staff to recognising and responding to acutely ill patients on the wards.
You will also have the opportunity to hear about the impact of Care Bundles on acutely ill patient outcomes and improving handover and escalation of the acutely ill patient.
The conference will enable you to learn from the experiences of those currently addressing the challenges you may be facing, so that you can take away new ideas and adapt them to meet the needs of your organisation.
‘Deteriorating patients: what, how, and why?’ presented by Frances Healey Clinical Reviewer NPSA, and Co-author NPSA deterioration reports is available here
Conference date: Tuesday 28th April 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
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NICE ‘Acutely ill patients in hospital: Recognition of and response to acute illness in adults in hospital’
NPSA ‘Recognising and responding appropriately to early signs of deterioration in hospitalised patients’
The Intensive Care Society
Scottish Intensive Care Society
The Health Foundation
Safer patients initiative
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement – Safer Care
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Competence in New Nursing Roles, Skills
and Advanced Practice
“The next stage review now provides a vehicle for taking forward the work that will be needed if radical change is to be made to the way nurses are developed, educated and prepared for a life-long career in nursing”.
Towards a framework for post registration nursing careers: consultation response report, Department of Health 23 July 2008
Chaired by Professor Ann Close from the newly formed Care Quality Commission, this eighth national conference will reflect on how competence development can contribute to driving up the quality of nursing care and improved clinical outcomes as outlined in the next stage review.
Nikki Hale Programme Manager Competence Development Skills for Health will provide an overview of the proposals for post-registration nursing education and the impact on nursing practice. Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes Executive Director of Nursing Barking, Havering and Redbridge Hospitals NHS Trust will give a national update on nursing registration, appraisal and revalidation.
To view Nikki Hale’s previous presentation ‘Developing Competence through education and work based learning’, please click here.
Conference date: Tuesday 26th May 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London.
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Department of Health: Framing the Nursing and Midwifery Contribution: driving up the quality of care
Department of Health - Modernising Nursing Careers – setting the direction ‘Towards a framework for post-registration
nursing careers’ consultation response report
Department of Health - Non-medical revalidation
Nurse Practitioner UK
Nursing and Midwifery Council
The Association of Advanced Nursing Practice Educators
Skills for Health – Understanding Competences
NHS Healthcare Workforce
Care Quality Commission
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Essence of Care
Although in its eighth year Essence of Care has been recognised as fundamental in supporting the national drive to achieve high quality care for all.
We will invest in generating the evidence base for quality and excellence, and in the resources and mechanisms required to support continuous improvement in quality. This will include developing the professionally popular ‘Productive’ series 9 for community services and refreshing Essence of Care.
Department of Health Framing the nursing and midwifery contribution: driving up the quality of care
Chaired by Linda Watterson Programme Manager, Evaluating and Improving The Royal College of Nursing, this seventh national conference will look at taking Essence of Care forward to continuously measure and improve the quality of patient care in everyday practice, and how the benchmarks can be connected to the new national quality indicators, nursing metrics and quality accounts.
The following topics are new to this programme:
- Linking essence of care with the productive ward
- Involving Patients and the patient perspective on essence of care
- Implementing the new Pain Benchmark which is due out in 2009
To view ‘Essence of Care – an update’ by Maureen Morgan from the Department of Health, please click here.
Conference date: Tuesday 2nd June 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London.
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Department of Health: Framing the Nursing and Midwifery Contribution: driving up the quality of care
Department of Health: The Essence of Care Patient-focused benchmarking for health care practitioners
RCN National Audit of Essence of Care
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement Productive Ward
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Dignity in Care on the Wards
“High quality care should be as safe and effective as possible, with patients treated with compassion, dignity and respect. As well as clinical quality and safety, quality means care that is personal to each individual.”
Professor The Lord Darzi Of Denham KBE, High quality care for all: NHS next stage review final report, 30th june 2008.
Chaired by Maura Buchanan President Royal College of Nursing and RCN Dignity Project Champion, this one day conference provides an important update on making dignity improvements measurable through using clinical indicators, markers and nursing metrics for dignity to demonstrate improvements.
With a keynote presentation from Pauline Ford Dignity Campaign Lead Royal College of Nursing you will hear about the importance of transforming the health service to ensure every patient is treated with dignity in a safe, clean environment and supporting nurses to meet the dignity agenda in a measurable way.
The conference also includes an update on implementing the 10 dignity challenge factors. The dignity challenge is a clear statement of what people can expect from a service that respects dignity, it focuses on 10 different aspects of dignity including;
1. Have a zero tolerance of all forms of abuse
2. Support people with the same respect you would want for yourself or a member of your family
3. Treat each person as an individual by offering a personalised service
4. Enable people to maintain the maximum possible level of independence, choice and control
5. Listen and support people to express their needs and wants
6. Respect people’s right to privacy
7. Ensure people feel able to complain without fear of retribution
8. Engage with family members and carers as care partners
9. Assist people to maintain confidence and a positive self-esteem
10. Act to alleviate people’s loneliness and isolation
SCIE Guide 15: Dignity in care
With presentations from The Care Quality Commission, Help the Aged and The National Institute for Mental Health England this conference provides a practical guide to improving dignity in care on the wards and moving forward.
Click here for conference information, downloads and bookings
Care Quality Commission
Department of Health: Dignity in Care
Department of Health: ‘Confidence in Caring: a framework for best practice’
Social Care Institute for Excellence: Dignity in Care
Care Services Improvement Partnerships: Dignity in Care
RCN Dignity Campaign
Age Concern
Help the Aged
British Geriatrics Society
The Marie Curie Palliative Care Institute Liverpool: Liverpool Care Pathway
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The Productive Ward: Releasing time to care™
The NHS Institute has found that ward nurses in acute settings spend an average of just 40% of their time on direct patient care. Recent research by Nursing Times also shows that nearly three in four ward nurses say that is not enough and 90% of those polled say that patient care suffers as a result.
The Productive Ward is an innovative and practical programme of work which aims to help turn around this situation by releasing time to care. More than that it’s a systematic and inclusive approach to improving the reliability, safety and efficiency of the care that you deliver.
By creating a really strong focus on the processes of care within your ward setting the Productive Ward will significantly increase the proportion of time you spend providing direct care to patients, improve the experience of both staff and patients and organise your ward so that space works for you rather than against you – saving you time, effort and money.
NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement; Releasing Time to Care: The Productive Ward - the story so far ...
For further information on Releasing time to care, please click here
Following a £50million investment the Productive Ward programme is currently being rolled out across the NHS, this Joint NHS Institute for Innovation and Improvement and Healthcare Events conference provides the opportunity for Senior Nurses, Sister, Matrons and Ward Managers to improve their understanding of the Productive Ward and the Productive Series and how best to implement the principles in order to work more productively and release time
to care.
Conference date: Thursday 4th June 2009 Venue: Manchester Conference Centre.
To register for a brochure, please email hannah@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
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Managing Poor Performance and Supporting
Nurses in Difficulty
Based on the recommendations from ‘Handling Concerns about the Performance of Healthcare Professionals’ and the White Paper ‘Trust, Assurance and Safety – The Regulation of Healthcare Professionals in the 21st Century’, this extremely popular conference provides guidance on implementing effective systems for identifying, preventing, responding to and managing performance concerns and ensuring continued compliance.
With presentations from the Department of Health, The Nursing and Midwifery Council, and The Royal College of Nursing, the conference will include updates on the impact of new quality indicators, matrics and clinical dashboards in improving performance and whether they should be used to monitor performance, revalidation, and ensuring an equitable and fair disciplinary process.
Handling Concerns is available here
Conference date: Thursday 11th June 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London.
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NHS Employers
Nursing & Midwifery Council – Fitness to Practice
Royal College of Nursing
Department of Health
The Association of UK University Hospitals, Patient Care Portfolio, including the Acuity Dependency Tool and Nurse
Sensitive Indicators
Department of Health - Non-medical revalidation
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Nursing Leadership
Developing tomorrow’s leaders
Leadership will be the key to achieving High Quality Care for All and, says NHS Chief Executive David Nicholson, making quality the organising principle of the NHS is going to require a different set of skills and leaders who can help staff to deliver transformation.
Department of Health, CNO Bulletin, Feb 09, pg 8
This practical guide to developing nursing leadership will provide an opportunity for Modern Matrons, Senior Nurses and Nurse Managers to strengthen their leadership skills in order to achieve High Quality Care for All. This is an important conference to attend as strengthening leadership has been listed as one of the key priorities for nurses to enhance quality of care, in the CNO’s publication Framing the Nursing and Midwifery Contribution.
Conference dates: Tuesday 30th June 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
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Related links…
Department of Health; Framing the Nursing and Midwifery Contribution: driving up the quality of care
Department of Health; Inspiring Leaders: leadership for quality
Nursing & Midwifery Council
Royal College of Nursing
Department of Health
Foundation of Nursing Leadership
Kings Fund
Matrons National Network
European Nursing Leadership Forum
Community Matrons network
The Association for Leaders in Nursing
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Nurse Pre-Assessment
Following the NHS Next Stage Review, Patient Reported Outcomes Measures (PROMS) will be used alongside clinical outcomes to measure safety, patient experience and patient’s views about the success of their treatment. Pre-Assessment nurses can support the implementation of PROMS by informing the patient at the beginning of their hospital stay.
Pre-assessment is recognised as fundamental to ensuring a streamlined patient journey, and has played a key part in reducing waiting times and achieving the 18-week patient pathway target, particularly through the development of one-stop clinics.
Delegates will have the opportunity to hear presentations on PROMS, reducing waiting times and one-stop clinics at A Practical Guide to Delivering Effective Nurse Pre-Assessment, at which Jane Jackson Consultant Nurse Pre-operative Assessment and Immediate Past Chair The Pre-operative Association will chair and give a presentation.
Jane Jackson gave an opening address at our previous conference, to view here presentation please click here
Conference date: Thursday 2nd July 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To register for a brochure, please email hannah@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
Related links…
The pre-operative Association
The Association for Perioperative Practice
The British Association of Day Surgery
The Association of Anaesthetists of Great Britain and Ireland
The Royal College of Anaesthetists
PERIGON Healthcare Limited
The Society for Perioperative Assessment and Quality Improvement
National Association of Paediatric Preoperative Assessment
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Nursing Older People
“The essence of nursing care for older people is about getting to know and value people as individuals through effective assessment, finding out how they want to be cared for from their perspective, and providing care which ensures that respect, dignity and fairness are maintained.”
NMC Guidance for the Care of Older People
A Practical Guide to Delivering a Positive, Patient-Centred Approach to Nursing Older People on the Wards focuses on the key recommendations of the new national guidance for the Care of Older People recently released by the Nursing Midwifery Council, which lists people, process and place as the three main elements to providing the fundamentals of care in a safe and effective way to older people. The conference will also provide guidance on the implications of High Quality Care for All for nursing older people and implementing quality indicators and metrics.
Conference date: Tuesday 7th July 2009 Venue: 20 Cavendish Square, London
To register for a brochure, please email hannah@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
Related links...
Nursing Midwifery Council Guidance for the Care of Older People
Department of Health, Confidence in Caring: A framework for best practice
Department of Health, National Service Framework for Older People and System Reform
Department of Health, ‘A New Ambition for Old Age’
RCN, Caring in partnership: older people and nursing staff working towards the future
RCN, Caring in partnership: 3 years on; progress and evaluation report
Age Concern
Help the Aged
British Geriatrics Society
Care Services Improvement Partnership Older People’s Mental Health
ADSS Older People Committee
Prevention of Falls Network Europe
Conference date: Friday 6th November 2009 Venue: Manchester Central Convention Complex.
To register for a nurse clinics brochure please email hannah@healthcareconferencesuk.co.uk
Chaired by Richard Hatchett, Author ‘Nurse-Led Clinics: Practice Issues’ and Principal Lecturer Faculty of Health and Social Care, London South Bank University, and with an opening address from Peter Carter OBE, Chief Executive and General Secretary, The Royal College of Nursing and an international keynote address from Professor Mary Chiarella, Chair, The Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council, Professor of Clinical Practice Development and Policy Research, The Centre for Health Service Management, Sydney, who has recently completed a review of nurse led clinics for the World Health Organisation, this second national conference provides an important forum to learn about the latest developments in running successful nurse clinics and the many innovative approaches being implemented across the UK and internationally both in primary and secondary care.
The conference also draws on the experience of leading practitioners to describe in practical terms how to overcome the common challenges of extending nursing practice to run effective clinics, including developing and maintaining competence in your role, nurse prescribing, leadership development, and risk management and legal issues.
Multiple streams and workshops at the conference will also cover:
Cancer Care * Cardiology * Medicine * Surgery * Urology * Mental Health Community * Follow-up * Discharge * Lean Thinking * Where to start
The conference closes with an address from Kathy George, Chief Executive, Nursing and Midwifery Council on the future for nurses running clinics, and an update on the regulation and revalidation of advanced nursing practice. Delegates will leave the conference with take home messages to inspire change in their practice, summed up in the final session ‘So, what do I do tomorrow?’
Accredited by the RCN Accreditation Unit, recognised by the Institute of Healthcare Management, supported by Education for Health and endorsed by the Association for Perioperative Practice, the UK Oncology Nursing Society, the British Association for Nursing in Cardiovascular Care, Nursing Management and the RCN Publishing Company.
At only £190 (+VAT) delegates will receive a free copy of Dr Richard Hatchett’s book, free entry to the exhibition, lunch and refreshments and a copy of the conference handbook, which will cover all sessions.
A previous presentation by Dr Richard Hatchett is available here and details of his book are available here
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Further conferences of interest to nurses:
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Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs)
Chaired by Professor Nick Black, Chairman the National Clinical Audit Advisory Group, this conference provides a practical guide to measuring and monitoring clinical outcomes using PROMs.
You’ll hear how practitioners are leading the way in using PROMs from integrating clinical outcomes and patient reported outcomes to using generic and disease specific PROMs in practice and collecting data at an organisational level.
Conference date: Thursday 22nd January 2009 Venue: Manchester Conference Centre.
Conference date: Thursday 22nd January 2009 Venue: Manchester Conference Centre.
Clinical Dashboards
Clinical Dashboards are a toolset being developed to provide clinicians with the relevant, and timely, information they need to inform daily decisions that improve the quality of patient care.
Frontline staff of three NHS organisations are working with NHS Connecting for Health on developing the first Clinical Dashboard prototypes which could help to simplify workflow processes and reduce oversights and errors in clinical practice. You will learn from NHS Trusts who are developing Clinical Dashboards in-house to improve outcomes at organisational, directorate and ward level.
Conference date: Wednesday 6th May 2009 Venue: 76 Portland Place, London
Eliminating Central Line and Ventilator Associated Infection
Conference date: Tuesday 12th May Venue: 76 Portland Place, London
Conference date: Wednesday 20th May Venue: Cavendish Conference Centre, London Reducing Clostridium Difficile: Towards Zero
Conference date: Wednesday 3rd June Venue: Manchester Conference Centre Manchester
Reducing Surgical Site Infections: Towards Zero
Conference date: Wednesday 10th June Venue: 76 Portland Place, London
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