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Will they listen to the nurses and take action?
Stirling University to lead UK’s largest patient care study
Nurses will be questioned on how they perceive the standard of care on wardsThe University of Stirling is to lead the UK’s largest ever study into patient experiences and the delivery of frontline health care.
About 6000 patients and almost 1000 nurses and health professionals will take part in the Improving Patient Experience of Care (IPEC) project.
The two year study will also involve academics from Dundee and Glasgow Caledonian universities.
The researchers hope the results can be used to improve patient care.
IPEC’s principal researcher is Prof Brian Williams, Director of the Nursing, Midwifery and Allied Health Professionals Research Unit.
Improving care
Prof Williams said: “There have been a number of major initiatives in recent years designed to help frontline healthcare staff improve the care experience.
Thousands more people will have to pay Inheritance tax
Social care: Inheritance tax freeze expected
Under the proposals, the state would cover the cost of care above £75,000Thousands more people will have to pay inheritance tax to help fund long-awaited social care reforms in England, ministers will announce on Monday.
The inheritance tax threshold is to be frozen at £325,000 for individuals and £650,000 for couples for three years from 2015.
That will help to fund plans including an expected cap of £75,000 on the costs people in England have to pay for care.
Campaigners say higher taxes have been introduced “by the back door”.
Medical staff to be made personally liable for their care they provide to their patients
They could also be prosecuted if they break a new statutory duty of ‘candour’ requiring openness with patients, families and healthcare regulator
, Wednesday 06 February 2013
Doctors, nurses and hospital managers should face criminal prosecution if they fail to provide basic standards of safe care to their patients, a landmark report recommends today.
The Francis Report into the lessons to be learnt from the scandal of Stafford Hospital calls for all medical staff to be made personally liable for their care they provide to their patients, and for a “zero tolerance” approach to poor standards.
They could also be prosecuted if they break a new statutory duty of “candour” which would require health professional to be honest with patients, families and healthcare regulators.
The inquiry chaired by Robert Francis QC was set up to assess the wider lessons to be learnt by the NHS from the Staffordshire scandal where up to 1,200 patients died unnecessarily because of widespread failings in both Mid Staffordshire Trust and the wider NHS.
He made a total of 290 sweeping recommendations for healthcare regulators, providers and the Government in his 1,782 page report. Among its main recommendations are:
* A new register for health care support workers – the lowest rung of caring staff in the NHS – which would be able to “strike off” poorly performing staff. There would also be a code of conduct and new minimum training standards for such staff.
