Health Foundation – 24th March 2024
This long read looks at the number of overseas-trained nurses registered in the UK, and how many are considering leaving to work elsewhere
Nursing locally, thinking globally: UK-registered nurses and their intentions to leave
Professional Record Standards Body – Oct 2023
It is estimated that nurses spend more than 25 per cent of their time on administration and looking for documentation to inform care. This standard reflects best practice and standardises documentation across different nursing settings, helping free nurses from the administrative burden of repetitive data entry and giving them more time to provide care. It also helps people and their families avoid having to ‘tell their story’ repeatedly. It standardises information that a nurse in a care home or community setting can access and share in the same way as a mental health or hospital nurse, with a focus on the person’s overall wellbeing.
NHS Staff Council — Job Evaluation Group – May 2023
Following a request by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and the Royal College of Midwives (RCM), the NHS Staff Council’s Job Evaluation Group undertook a review of the national job profiles for nursing and midwifery. The aim of this review is to ensure that these profiles reflect current nursing and midwifery practice and are fit for purpose in all health and care settings. This report is the output from the evidence-gathering stage of the review project.
Read the Report – Nursing and midwifery national job profile review – Evidence report –
NMC – May 2023
Welcome to our annual insight into the UK’s total available nursing and midwifery workforce. In this document you’ll
find definitive data about the nurses, midwives and nursing associates on our register – how many there are, where
they were educated, their demographic characteristics, and the reasons why some of them leave.
While these statistics matter, I’m always conscious that using numbers to describe any group of people can take away from the fact they’re just that – people. It doesn’t do justice to the invaluable role that professionals on our
register play in delivering safe, effective and kind care for people. But while our data can’t tell you the stories behind the people on our register, I believe it can positively impact their professional lives and, in turn,
the quality of care people receive. That’s because the data contained here are a unique and reliable source of
insight with the power to influence workforce planning, whether that’s the recruitment or retention of the nurses, midwives and nursing associates on whom we all rely for our health and wellbeing.
Read the Report – https://www.nmc.org.uk/globalassets/sitedocuments/data-reports/may-2023/0110a-annual-data-report-full-uk-web.pdf
The Nursing and Midwifery Council – 2023
Since we launched our strategy for 2020–2025, the environment in which we all live and work has changed dramatically. In the coming year, the health and social care sectors face immense challenges across the four countries of the UK. We remain committed to supporting nursing and midwifery professionals to deliver safe, effective and kind care to improve everyone’s health and well-being. Our corporate plan for 2023-2025 sets out how we focus once again on our strategic goals, and stay committed to our values.
NHS England – 17th May 2023
This strategic plan sets out plans for maternity and perinatal research and strengthening careers for under-represented disciplines, such as midwives, as the backbone of maternity care over the next three years
This Chief Midwifery Officer for England’s strategic plan for research will support NHS England commitments in the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) UK Clinical Research Recovery, Resilience and Growth Programme and clinical research vision to support the healthcare workforce to embed research in the NHS. This includes ensuring that healthcare staff have the capacity and capability to incorporate research into their day-to-day activities; increasing knowledge and skills of NHS maternity leaders about different ways staff can get involved in research; increasing awareness of the value of research for safe and high quality care; and supporting frontline staff to lead delivery and use research in practice to improve care, experience and outcomes for women and babies and organisational performance.
This document sets out plans for maternity and perinatal research and strengthening careers for under-represented disciplines, such as midwives, as the backbone of maternity care over the next three years. Themes are shaped by policy and research priorities, and informed by colleagues across NHS England. It is aligned with the NIHR Research Strategy and NIHR Strategic Review of Training Council of Deans of Health, Royal College of Midwives, Royal College of Obstetricians plans, the Chief Nursing Officer’s (CNO) strategic plan for research, and draft NHS England Strategy for improving use of Evaluation.
Chief Midwifery Officer for England’s strategic plan for research
RCN – 16th May 2023
Our five-year strategic plan aims to inspire, champion and support the nursing community to deliver the best
possible care. To do this, the RCN will continue to transform the way we work and make best use of new technology.
We will develop the skills of our staff to ensure that our products and services meet the needs of all our members,
readers, subscribers, customers and beneficiaries. We will continue to shape policy, set clinical standards and support
advancement of the profession to improve the health and wellbeing of the public.
Read the strategy – A new dawn for nursing: 2023-2027
RCN – 22nd Feb 2023
This evidence review was commissioned to support policy influencing and to point RCN staff and members towards the latest evidence on staffing for safe and effective care. A previous evidence review was completed to support the RCN’s Staffing for Safe and Effective Care (2019) report, with this current evidence review bringing that up to date.
Read the Report – Impact of Staffing Levels on Safe and Effective Patient Care
Mortensen, M. et al. (2022). Instruments for measuring patient safety competencies in nursing: a scoping review. BMJ Open Quality . 11. e001751. doi: 10.1136/bmjoq-2021-001751
Abstract
Background Patient safety competencies in nursing are essential for the quality of healthcare. To develop practices and collaboration in nursing care, valid instruments that measure competencies in patient safety are needed.
Objective To identify instruments that measure the patient safety competencies of nurses.
Design A scoping review.
Data sources The Cochran Library, Epistemonikos, Eric, Ovid Medline, CINAHL, Embase and Web of Science databases were searched for articles reporting on instruments measuring patient safety competence in nursing. The search was limited to English peer-reviewed scientific papers published from January 2010 to April 2021.
Review method A blinded selection of articles fulfilling the inclusion criteria was performed by two researchers based on the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Reviews and Meta-Analyses extension for Scoping Reviews. Data were then extracted, synthesised and presented in tables and text.
Results Our search identified 1,426 papers, of which 32 met the inclusion criteria. The selected papers described nine instruments, of which the ‘Health Professional Education in Patient Safety Survey’ was the most used instrument. The identified instruments comprised domains for patient safety skills, attitudes, knowledge, communication, teamwork and errors. The instruments had been tested for content (face) and construct validity as well as for reliability. However, sensitivity and responsiveness were rarely assessed.
Conclusions Over the last decade, there has been a growing body of instruments aimed at measuring patient safety competencies among nurses. The future development of new instruments should consider including the important dimension of ethics in patient safety as well as evaluating the instrument’s responsiveness to be able to track changes over time.
BMJ Instruments for measuring patient safety competencies in nursing: a scoping review
This report aims to identify what makes an outstanding District Nursing service. It explores a variety of District Nursing service models as well as the views and experiences of a wide range of stakeholders. The report makes a number of recommendations based on the findings | Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI)
In meeting the needs of patients, families and carers in the community, the key recommendations of this project are:
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