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Re NMC plan to check nurses every 3 years.

This is "silencing whistleblowing by the backdoor".

How will this apply to those who work as lecturers or professors etc ie not directly patient care?

Peers may dislike nurses who raise issues thus providing negative reports eg bias against unpopular nurses. Indeed there is evidence of unfairly reported nurses to the NMC anyway.

Also it seems, nurses have to agree (including Unions in some cases), with business objectives of the company etc.

Criteria also are essential ie compassion or clinical skills??

Need also address nurse training and overseas in any case. There should be no need to do this with adequate training, staff support and mangement etc. 

Is this not shoving the responsibility onto the employer? Nurses will be even more afraid to raise issues. Worse problems will be in private sector.- more overseas staff etc.

Whatever happened to the CPD checking? Not many portfolios were asked for , according to references.

Nurses do need regular, updates with the latest information regarding their speciality. 

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So Ok who have  I emailed-- DH--they say NMC responsible-- NO REPLY. So tell us where do we go? I have not sourced this info, no matter but I see the urgency for overseas nurses and or patients. Overseas nurses need preparing--do not merely blame them. Is the problem, we have so many overseas nurses who I do not object to being here, in jeopardy, that nobody dare research the issue? If it is not on the agenda-- you cannot write about it nor research it---.

Would you be cared for a nurse without qualifications--- or, do they not need a qualification after all? Which is it??  Who are the fools?

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Report out today again supports low staffing. Yes low staffing is horrendous and we need a minimum staff level. However, we are hiding behind low staffing as an excuse for poor care. It is one reason BUT in some cases of low stafing, nurses still sit at the desk where they consider their role to be. Supported by blogs, inspection reports and observations. There are cases of student nurses reprimanded for wanting to directly assist with patients-- as "it is not their role".

Poor care has always existed, even without low staff levels (ie staff levels meets the recommended figure for the ward or care home by the higher manager) . There are other reasons. In 1980 one of Wells conclusions was that increasing staff levels will not always increase quality of care. We know this. Accept it and then we can deal with it. We should not be  looking to blame anybody. 

Plans now to charge for people to see a GP. This is another leap towards what we all know is inevitable but the govt still try to hide. Not sure if the govt are aware of problems with privatisation or if they are misled. Odds are on the first- when they do not even reply. Privatise so it is not then the Govts responsibility. Keep focussing on NHS problems-- there are horrific reports of problems in the private sector  

/www.sochealth.co.uk/2013/07/25/the-future-of-health-care-captive-workers/. Much info is kept from the public eye.

Watch America-- here we come. People who cannot pay queue round the block for free care offered by volunteer Doctors and nurses etc. this creates mal- feeling among those who do pay . Further widens the gap of resentment between haves and have nots.

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