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Pre-registration nurse education
Pre-registration nurse education: The NMC review and issues' sets out the background to pre-registration nurse education and identifies the review key issues and their implications.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Trust, assurance and safety
On the 21 February the white paper on professional regulation was published, Trust, Assurance and Safety – the Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century. The white paper will affect how nurses are regulated in the future.
Updated: 14 August 2015 -
Modernising Nursing Careers
This briefing summarises the key issues, how the work was to be taken forward and the RCN's involvement.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
The Regulation of Health Care Support Workers
The RCN has a clear view that all HCSWs should be regulated in the interests of public protection and patient safety. Further we believe that HCSWs who deliver direct clinical care alongside registered nurses in the nursing team should be regulated by the nursing regulatory body, the NMC . However w...
Updated: 5 March 2021 -
Ensuring a fit for purpose future nursing workforce
Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark, Deputy Dean of Faculty of Medicine, Head of School of Nursing & Midwifery, University of Southampton, has generated this paper to promote discussion and the views expressed are those of Professor Dame Jill Macleod Clark alone. This paper has been published on the R...
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Two consultation documents from Modernising Nursing Careers
Two significant consultations in relation to Modernising Nursing Careers were launched in November 2007: one from the Nursing and Midwifery Council regarding the future content and level of pre registration nurse education and the other from the English Department of Health regarding post registrati...
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Mergers, Markets and Monitor
As the numbers of NHS Foundation Trusts passes 50, this update consideres the implications of financial failure, trust mergers and the potential for takeovers of and by NHS Foundation Trusts in an increasingly plural health care economy.
Updated: 8 September 2015 -
RCN factsheet: Health and wellbeing boards
Short briefing on health and wellbeing boards, one of the new types of organisation formed by the Health and Social Care Act 2012.
Updated: 24 August 2015 -
The legal and policy issues for a PCT in England to have a nurse at board level and consideration of board nurse competencies
On the 21 February the white paper on professional regulation was published, Trust, Assurance and Safety - the Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century. The white paper will affect how nurses are regulated in the future.
Updated: 23 March 2017 -
Mandatory nurse staffing levels
The attached briefing produced by the RCN Policy and International Department sets out the case for moving to a system of mandated staffing levels. The RCN believes that the development of safe mandatory nurse to patient ratios is crucial to the future of the NHS, and that improved patient outcomes ...
Updated: 14 August 2015
