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Staff focus Centre for Mental Health: Unsung heroes. Developing a better understanding of the emotional support needs of Service families (PDF 1.54MB). “Armed Forces families must be better supported to deal with the emotional and psychological impact of deployment”. The report also calls for urgent research into alcohol misuse, domestic violence and the impact of mental health problems on the partners and children of Service personnel and veterans. DH: Impact assessment: a new system for workforce planning education and training. This impact assessment has been carried out to test the impact of the Government’s policy for a new system for planning and developing the healthcare workforce as set out in 'Liberating the NHS: developing the healthcare workforce – from design to delivery' published in January 2012. DH: Nurses urged to reach out to their communities in celebration of International Nurses’ Day. Nurses across the UK are being encouraged to engage their local communities on International Nurses’ Day and throughout May. The Department of Health, in partnership with the Florence Nightingale Foundation, NHS Careers, and the four UK Chief Nursing Officers, is asking nurses to highlight outstanding practice and promote the positive images of the profession. European Federation of Nurses Associations: Caring in crisis. The impact of the financial crisis on nurses and nursing (PDF 1011KB). Comparative overview of 34 European countries providing insights into a healthcare system under pressure and illustrates current and future challenges. General Social Care Council: The supply of social work practice placements: Employers’ views. The report is based on the responses of 466 employers, who provided approximately a third of all placements in 2010-11. “These employers made it clear that they value the experience of having students on placement in their organisation”. The report also presents a number of factors which employers identified as being crucial to their ability to maintain or increase the supply of practice placements. Health Services management Centre (HSMC) University of Birmingham: Maximising the potential of NHS workforce. The NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme are funding a study – Staff satisfaction and organisational performance: evidence from the NHS Staff Survey - to investigate whether job satisfaction and employee attitudes are associated with improved organisational performance in the NHS. Healthcare Inspectorate Wales (HIW): Healthcare and the Armed Forces community in Wales. The report follows a survey conducted between December 2011 and February 2012 looking at the adequacy, availability and accessibility of NHS provision for Armed Forces personnel, their families and veterans in Wales. It drew primarily on the personal experiences of members of the Armed Forces community, but also included input from the main service organisations and charities. House of Commons Health Select Committee: Education, training and workforce planning. The Health Select Committee has stated that Government plans to reform education, training and workforce planning in the NHS are unclear and lack crucial detail. “Plans to reform handling of the £5billion annual training budget are welcome in principle, but without greater clarity and detail from the Government, coupled with a greater sense of urgency about their implementation, the success of new arrangements is at risk”. RCN: MPs' report on education echoes RCN concerns. King’s Fund: Leadership and engagement for improvement in the NHS. “The NHS faces a number of challenges – driving up quality of care, making significant productivity gains, ensuring the government’s reforms work. To meet these challenges, individuals and organisations need to rethink the way in which power and responsibility are shared within teams and organisations and across the health and care system. Leaders need to cultivate a strong culture of engagement for patients and staff and to deploy a range of leadership styles and behaviours.” NES: Modernising Nursing in the Community Toolkit (MNiC) custodians. NES are seeking to appoint 12 custodians and 3 Custodian Coordinators to ensure currency of the toolkit which was launched in January 2012. Closing date for applications is 21 June 2012. National Prescribing Centre (NPC): Improving quality in prescribing. A new single competency framework for all prescribers including nurses and midwives. This framework can be used by healthcare professionals preparing to prescribe, and will help prescribers identify strengths and areas for continuing professional development. This set of competencies underpins good prescribing for all professional backgrounds. Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC): NMC to seek fee increase. NMC has announced its intention to consult on a possible increase in its registration fee to £120. The regulator for the UK’s 670,000 nurses and midwives said that the steep increase was needed to handle the soaring number of fitness to practise referrals against nurses and midwives and to cover the increasing costs of regulation. RCN: proposed raise in NMC fees is ‘deeply unfair’. NMC: GPs reminded that unregistered nurses are working illegally. GPs across the UK are being reminded of their responsibility to ensure the nurses they employ are registered with the Nursing and Midwifery Council. The General Practitioners Committee (GPC) of the British Medical Association, Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) and the NMC have come together to inform GPs that nurses cannot legally practice in the UK unless they are registered with the NMC. NMC: NMC consultation on fitness to practise case management and consensual disposal. The Nursing and Midwifery Council is consulting on the option of introducing a consensual disposal process and other changes intended to improve its management of fitness to practise cases. This consultation is open until Monday 6 August 2012. NMC: Proposed changes to NMC constitution. The Department of Health is proposing changes to NMC legislation, to reduce the size of their governing council, and to change the length of time council members can hold office. These proposals have followed recommendation made by the Council for Healthcare Regulatory Excellence (CHRE). Skills for Care: Supporting dementia workers: a case study-based manager’s guide to good practice in learning and development for social care workers supporting people with dementia (PDF 2.3MB). This guide supports leaders and managers in developing their workforces to enable them to provide the highest quality of care for people with dementia. It considers how workforce planning and development can best improve the outcomes for people with dementia, supporting managers to work in the most effective way with training providers to deliver service outcomes and implement the Common Core Principles to Support People with Dementia. The Guardian: How nursing should tackle its image problem. “Professionals should work together to respond to the challenge of delivering care in a time of growing demands”. Welsh Government: Working differently – working together. This is the first document to be published supporting Together For Health, the 5 year vision for the NHS. It focuses on the vital role that all staff play in delivering safe and effective care for the people of Wales. It recognises that the NHS in Wales is working within a changing environment in challenging times. It is all the more important that staff are supported by the best in employment practices. This framework will support the development of the right staffing model in order to continue to transform the way we deliver healthcare. 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