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HIGH-ACHIEVING NURSES AND MIDWIVES FELLOWSHIP FOR THE NAMED IN THE QUEEN’S BIRTHDAY HONOURS PROFESSOR WHO ‘I am as proud today as I was when Chief nurse Elaine Inglesby-Burke of I received my registration as a nurse in Salford Royal NHS Foundation Trust 1980. As nurses we are in the unique is among 21 nurses and midwives position of being part of people’s lives named in the Queen’s Birthday at time of great need and I’ve seen so Honours List having been made many staff delivering care in the a CBE. most kind and compassionate Ms Inglesby-Burke, way,’ she said. who is also the trust’s deputy Elizabeth Robb, chief chief executive, earned the executive of the Florence honour for her services to Nightingale Foundation, nursing. Her nursing career, was made an OBE. She which spans almost 38 years, said she was ‘completely began at Warrington Hospital where she specialised in critical Elaine Inglesby- overwhelmed and humbled’. Burke of Salford Will Pooley was made MBE care and general medicine. Royal NHS for his work helping to combat She became the deputy Foundation Trust Ebola in west Africa. Royal chief executive of Salford College of Midwives (RCM) Royal in 2014. director for midwifery Louise Ms Inglesby-Burke has played Silverton was made a CBE for a key role in the campaign services to midwifery and for safe staffing levels and maternal and child health. was a member of the prime Others honoured include minister’s Nursing and Care RCN operational manager Quality Forum. She later Nora Flanagan and RCM contributed to the National Advisory Group on the Safety of Elizabeth Robb, policy adviser Janet Fyle – both were made MBE. Ms Fyle was Patients in England. chief executive recognised for tackling female Ms Inglesby-Burke said she of the Florence Nightingale genital mutilation. felt honoured and ‘extremely Go to tinyurl.com/p94yeds humbled’ to receive the award. Foundation

PUTS PATIENTS FIRST

A nursing professor has been awarded a national teaching fellowship from the Higher Education Academy. Stephen Tee, of the Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at King’s College London, is among 55 higher education staff to be given a fellowship out of 180 nominees. Professor Tee, who has been a mental health nurse for more than 30 years, has conducted research in areas including leadership, person-centred practice and clinical decision-making. King’s vice-principal (education) Karen O’Brien said: ‘Stephen is simply one of the leading nursing educators of his generation, and he always puts the patient perspective at the heart of his teaching.’ Professor Tee said: ‘I am absolutely delighted with this award. I am also very appreciative of all the support and encouragement I have received over the years from colleagues and students. ‘I hope this will inspire more nurses and midwives to consider a career in nurse education.’

Trust takes control of Filipino recruitment exams A London trust has tightened its procedures for hiring nurses in the Philippines because it said it had evidence that some candidates cheated in the recruitment exam. Representatives of King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust’s wholly owned company KCHM will now take exam papers to Manila themselves, invigilate the exam and collect the papers. Manila-based Omanfil International Manpower Development Corporation recruitment agency had been overseeing the exams, but the trust has taken this responsibility away in response to claims made in a national newspaper article. The newspaper alleged some candidates had extra time to make

corrections, and others had taken photographs of answers during the test. King’s College is retaining Omanfil to find potential recruits and carry out early vetting. KCHM will continue to mark the exam papers, as it has done previously. A trust spokesperson said: ‘KCHM representatives will physically take the test papers and interview questions to the Philippines, as well as personally supervise, invigilate and mark the tests. The changes in how tests are administered and invigilated have been implemented after evidence of cheating at Omanfil’s test centre was brought to our attention.’ The trust has recruited nurses through Omanfil, although there is no suggestion these nurses cheated.

An Omanfil spokesperson said the organisation abides by the highest standards of international recruitment. He added that test answers were kept separately for marking purposes and never shared with candidates, either before or during the test. Meanwhile, police are continuing to investigate whether Victorino Chua, the Filipino nurse jailed for life last month for murdering two patients and poisoning 20 others at Stepping Hill Hospital in Stockport, used forged papers to gain work in the UK. The hospital did not recruit him through an agency, however, but through a Greater Manchester care home, where he was already working.

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Trust takes control of Filipino recruitment exams.

A London trust has tightened its procedures for hiring nurses in the Philippines because it said it had evidence that some candidates cheated in the r...
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