Nursing & Midwifery Council (NMC). The Nursing and Midwifery Council is a professional regulatory body for nurses and midwives in the United Kingdom. All midwives practising in the UK, must be registered with the council before they can practice in the country. (The Nursing and Midwifery Council, 2016). EXTERNAL STAKEHOLDERS. NHS England, Local Authority – Enfield Borough, Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCG) this replaced Primary Health Trust, Patients Participation Group (PPG), Care Quality Commission, (CQC). National Institute for Care Excellence, (NICE). NHS England main goal is produce high quality care for all, and future generation. Improve the quality of care and to cancer treatment, timely access to mental health and dementia services …show more content…
Registering care services that meet set standards. Carry out in-depth investigations to look across the system and taking appropriate action if care services are falling to meet the standards and take actions within their boundaries. Clinical Commissioning Groups- NHS organisations set up by the Health and social care Act, 2012 to organise the delivery of NHS services in England. It also works with patients and healthcare professionals and in partnership with local communities and local authorities. Not stipulated in legislation, it can establish a quality committee to provide assurance on the quality of services commissioned and promote a culture of continuous improvement and innovation with respect to safety of services, clinical effectiveness and patient experience. Patient Participation Group (PPG). This group is selection of patients and practice staff to voluntarily to meet at regular intervals to decide ways of making contribution to the services and facilitates offered by the practice. It is not a group that discuss the medical needs or concern of individuals. It also a place to explain policies or where general NHS funding issues can be clarified. I belong to one that is how l know that Chelsea and Camden boroughs get more funding than my Enfield
an assessment of their community care needs under the NHS and Community Care Act 1990.
National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) developed the area of their concern for quality improvement in relation to t prevention and treatment of various kinds of health conditions or services. Therefore, in the course of this innovation, team members will make sure patients are safe and not harm by the change that aims to help them; care is effective, practising with the best available evidence based practice, is person centred; making patients first concerned when making clinical decision; avoiding unnecessary delays and provide care in timely manner (Health Foundation, 2013).
The changes to health policy and the re-organisation of the NHS in recent years which has led to improve integrated governance, has all developed as a result of the catastrophic failings that occurred in Mid-Staffordshire healthcare Trust. The Secretary of State for health, Andrew Lansley, announced a full public inquiry to parliament on the 9th June 2009 into the role of the commissioning, supervisory and regulatory bodies in the monitoring of Mid-Staffordshire Foundation Trust (Midstaff inquiry online, 2013). This inquiry was led by Robert Francis QC, who proposed recommendations to ensure that similar events do not repeat in future. The Francis report made 290 recommendations which included improved support for compassionate, caring and committed care, as well as stronger healthcare leadership (Health Foundation Online, 2014).
There are now 92 of these – all regulated by Monitor, an independent regulator. Foundation Trusts are freed from central control and manage their own budgets. It is government policy to encourage all trusts to attain Foundation status.The NHS is funded primarily out of central taxation. Its total cost in 2005-6 was £76 billion.NHS Wales delivers emergency services known as primary, secondary, and specialist tertiary care services in England and Tier system in Wales. The Hospitals provide outpatient, inpatient, and accident and emergency facilities, and community hospitals run by General Practitioners. Specialist hospitals provide services such as burns units and plastic and cardiac surgery. This includes out of hours GP services, dental services, pharmacies, ambulance service, and sexual health services in the tier system. Community services included and providing services provided by community nurses, health visitors, midwives, and community-based speech therapists, physiotherapists, and occupational therapists. This is achieved through an integrated working partnership under the Welsh Mental Health Measure 2010 (Government,
NHS Choices. (2013). Health watchdog and authorities: CQC. [Online]. .GOV.UK. Available at: http://www.nhs.uk/NHSEngland/thenhs/healthregulators/Pages/carequalitycommission.aspx [Accessed 30 April 2014].
...otection Act 1998; it is the main thing that professionals do in the health and social.
The Care Programme Approach Association, (2006) National Standards and CPA Association Audit Tool for the Monitoring of the Care Programme Approach. Chesterfield: CPAA
There is also agencies responsible for regulating health and social care professionals in Scotland such as:
Licensed practical nurses (LPN 's) fill an important role in modern health care practices. Their primary job duty is to provide routine care, observe patients’ health, assist doctors and registered nurses, and communicate instructions to patients regarding medication, home-based care, and preventative lifestyle changes (Hill). A Licensed Practical Nurse has various of roles that they have to manage on a day to day basis, such as being an advocate for their patients, an educator, being a counselor, a consultant, researcher, collaborator, and even a manager depending on what kind of work exactly that you do and where. It is the nursing process and critical thinking that separate the LPN from the unlicensed assistive personnel. Judgments are based
Once upon a time, my best friend, Bryan Martinez, often heard his mother’s medical conversations with friends. One day at school, our teacher confronted Mrs. Martinez and told her that she was able tell that Bryan was a son from a nurse. Apparently there was an incident at school where a little boy was acting out and Bryan told our teacher that the little boy was agitated, and to give him some medication to calm him down. As demonstrated by Bryan, nursing is ongoing profession that promotes the health and well-being of individuals.
“The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival” (Aristotle, n.d.)
The Care Programme Approach Association (2006) National Standards and CPA Association Audit Tool for the Monitoring of the Care Programme Approach. Chesterfield: CPAA.
The following essay is a reflective paper on an event that I encountered as a student nurse during my first clinical placement in my first year of study. The event took place in a long term facility. This reflection is about the patient whom I will call Mrs. D. to protect her confidentiality. Throughout this essay I will be using LEARN model of reflection. I have decided to reflect on the event described in this essay since I believe that it highlights the need for nurses to have effective vital signs ‘assessment skills especially when treating older patients with complex medical diagnoses.
According to the American Nurses Association, nursing is defined as “the protection, promotion, and optimization of health and abilities, prevention of illness and injury, facilitation of healing, alleviation of suffering through the diagnosis and treatment of human response, and advocacy in the care of individuals, families, groups, communities, and populations” (American Nurses Association, 2016). Nurses have many jobs and responsibilities and wear many different hats. Nurses can perform at many different levels depending on their scope of practice which is defined by the board of nursing in one’s state of residence. It is important as nurses to understand and follow
I am working as a staff nurse at one of the Integrated Management System (IMS) accredited hospital in Sarawak since 2014. I qualified as a Registered Nurse with a Diploma in Nursing in year 2007. My first year I have been working in a multi-disciplinary ward. We cover a range of specialties including minor and major surgeries. The health care team in my ward consists of 1 Unit Manager, 20 staff nurses and 15 care assistants.