We’re publishing an original post today by Dr. Ann Bradshaw, a retired Senior Lecturer in Adult Health Care at Oxford Brookes University. She notes that the Government is importing nurses from Kenya as a stop-gap measure to address the shortage of trained nurses, but she isn’t happy with the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s (NMC) proposals to address the crisis long-term. Here is an extract:
The NMC is planning a new policy that will reduce placement practice and replace it with simulation in the classroom. This is despite a promise made to the Government in 1988, in response to Secretary of State John Moores. He granted permission to move nurse training to higher education, but warned of “fears that the changes would place nurse education predominantly in a classroom setting, thus unacceptably reducing the practical, patient-orientated content of training”. In fact, he placed on record the joint understanding that nursing education must retain its clinical focus and students would not spend substantially less time in clinical areas than at present. (Letter of John Moores to Audrey Emerton, May 20th 1988).
And the NMC policy is not only reneging on the professional body’s promise to John Moores but also betrays its official response to the Francis Report, which stated categorically that nursing students would continue to spend half their training in clinical settings (albeit as supernumerary learners rather than as salaried members of the workforce).
Worth reading in full.
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I think the destruction of the NHS has been in the governments sights for quite a while. The withdrawal of services within the NHS and its sole dedication to Covid has been nothing short of criminal.
I regard the governments’ activities which lead to the deaths of tens of thousands as nothing short of corporate manslaughter
The NHS did it to itself. The NHS, PHE, NICE – they all dashed into this, eyes wide open. They chose to kill tens of thousands.
cant see the massive post school opening spike that the ‘modellers’ promised us
Ah well that will be because everybody’s already died since schools went back and no one is left to monitor the terrible toll of the deadly deadly virus that the germ laden kids have been killing their teachers and grannies with. Or something like that. If only people would just wear 97 masks and stop being so entitled about their children’s education. It’s a deadly Global pandemic don’tcha know. Just a few more weeks. There’ll be a spike and the ICUs will be overrun and everybody will be either asymptomatic or dead. And probably both at the same time.
Have you watched a relative or friend die slowly of cancer?
I have. Both.
To inflict such a death on somebody, when it could have been prevented, is nothing short of diabolical.
Those responsible will burn in hell.
I would really like NICE to justify their continued existence. How do they justify being paid, at all, given that their core function has been totally junked this past year? How do we know it won’t continue? If the UK no longer pays any attention to health economics then we need to fire everyone who is supposed to make judgements based on these rational grounds.