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How one emergency department achieved a 70% rise in patients receiving life-saving sepsis treatment within an hour.
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Electronic Health Records , Emergency Service, Hospital/standards , Sepsis/prevention & control , England , Humans , Quality Improvement , Sepsis/nursing , State MedicineABSTRACT
Essential facts The hepatitis B vaccine is highly effective in preventing infection if given before exposure and is also effective post-exposure. Post-exposure vaccination should start immediately, ideally within 24 hours.
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Emergency department (ED) staff have begun a campaign to keep patients more active.
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A ten-point action plan to boost the general practice nursing (GPN) workforce has been published by England's chief nurse.
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When Alison Pickard was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), she had established a nursing career that spanned five decades. Now, more than five years on from her diagnosis, she has given written evidence backing a High Court bid to challenge current legislation and make assisted dying legal.
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Seven healthcare innovations could save the NHS £18.5 billion and the social care sector £6.3 billion in 15 years, according to the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK).
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Delivery of Health Care/economics , Organizational Innovation/economics , State Medicine/economics , Cost-Benefit Analysis , Humans , United KingdomABSTRACT
Essential facts The UK's chief medical officers (CMOs) have published new advice on physical exercise for pregnant women in the form of an infographic. It is aimed at providing midwives, nurses, GPs, obstetricians and gynaecologists, as well as leisure sector professionals, with the latest evidence on physical activity during pregnancy.
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A police team has been assigned to protect emergency departments at four major hospitals in London.
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Health and social care professionals need better training on sexuality and gender identity issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people with dementia, a report recommends.
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Dementia/nursing , Gender Identity , Geriatric Nursing/education , Health Personnel/education , Sexual and Gender Minorities , HumansABSTRACT
NHS England recently called on its Twitter followers to share their views about end of life care. It highlighted best practice examples in a bid to show progress on the government's six commitments to end of life care.
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Quality of Health Care , Terminal Care/standards , Hospice Care , State Medicine , United KingdomABSTRACT
The RCN is celebrating a 'U-turn' over plans to prevent nurses working for an agency if they already have a substantive contract with the NHS.
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A nurse has been reprimanded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for failing to begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a care home resident that he believed had already died.
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Hospitals should reduce the number of times mothers and ill babies are separated, according to a report.
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With health services continuing to feel the strain, collaboration will give nurses, doctors and other care staff 'the best chance of success', according to England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings.
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Health Personnel , Health Policy/economics , Organizational Innovation/economics , State Medicine/organization & administration , Humans , Interprofessional Relations , United KingdomABSTRACT
In a report called Safe Later Lives, the charity SafeLives reveals that approximately 120,000 over-65s will have experienced abuse in the past year and older victims experience abuse for twice as long as those who are younger before seeking help.
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The UK faces a potential shortage of more than 36,000 nurses by 2030, a new study has shown.
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The NHS spends £9 billion a year on clinical supplies and services. But better procurement management could lead to annual savings of up to £1 billion, according to a 2016 review of productivity in acute hospitals in England by Labour peer Lord Carter.
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Funding for children's hospices and palliative care charities in England is in crisis with seriously ill children facing a postcode lottery for their care, a new report has revealed.
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Child Health Services/economics , Financing, Government/economics , Health Policy/economics , Healthcare Financing , Hospice Care/economics , Palliative Care/economics , State Medicine/economics , Adolescent , Child , Child, Preschool , England , Humans , Infant , Infant, NewbornABSTRACT
Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has piloted a scheme to enhance the care of frail and vulnerable older patients, and staff are already seeing positive results.
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Accidental Falls/prevention & control , Dementia/nursing , Geriatric Nursing/methods , Nursing Assistants , Quality Improvement , Aged , Aged, 80 and over , Allied Health Personnel , Frail Elderly , Hospitalization , Humans , State Medicine , United Kingdom , Vulnerable PopulationsABSTRACT
The announcement of nursing degree apprenticeships has been criticised as an 'act of amnesia' by a leading nurse professor.
