Editorial EDITOR Nick Lipley Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3166 Email: [email protected] CONSULTANT EDITOR Debbie Mazhindu Reader in clinical nursing practice and innovation at Buckinghamshire New University and Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Gemma Ellis Consultant nurse in adult critical care, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Anastasia Mallidou Assistant professor, school of nursing, University of Victoria BC, Canada Ada ter Maten Nurse researcher, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Healthcare, Netherlands Niall McCrae Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London Jane Naish Deputy chief nurse and head of quality, Milton Keynes Hospital NHS Foundation Trust Natasha Phillips Assistant chief nurse, University College London Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, and visiting research fellow, National Nursing Research Unit, King’s College London Elaine Strachan-Hall Governing body nurse, NHS South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group Donna Swinden Senior therapist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Ray Walker Director of nursing and secure services, Mersey Care NHS Trust, Liverpool Frances Wong Professor and associate dean, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong, China Haiou Xia Professor at the school of nursing, Fudan University, China
Use your vote on May 7 The UK is going to the ballot box this month in a general election, the outcome of which has rarely been so unpredictable. As Nursing Management went to press, polls suggested that the two main parties are unable to muster 70% of the vote between them. Even a coalition with any one of the other parties would not mean a majority in parliament. Any way you cut it, the days of the two-horse race have gone. So who will make a deal with whom, and over what, to secure a place in government?
Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected]
Against this uncertainty have been published two reports on the nursing workforce, one by Unison and one by the Royal College of Nursing (page 6).
Senior production editor Julie Hickey Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3148 Email: [email protected] Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected]
The first highlights how hospitals across the UK have staffing levels that are dangerously low. The second reveals how more and more applicants are being turned away from nursing degree programmes even though nursing services are over-stretched.
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RCN general secretary Peter Carter says: ‘Whoever forms the next government must take immediate action to grow the nursing workforce, and ensure
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NURSING MANAGEMENT
All the major parties are itching to spend more on the health service even though the source of this extra cash is open to question
Nick Lipley Editor
it can keep up with demand with a sustainable and long-term plan. ‘Unlike many problems facing the health service, the solution to the nursing workforce is very simple, and is a matter of political will. With more people wanting to nurse than ever, the next government has the power to increase training places and expand the supply of nurses. If it does not, it will be failing a generation of patients.’ This ‘simple solution’ does require extra funding, however, in terms of education, student support and salaries after these students have registered and found work. But then, all the major parties are itching to spend more on the health service over the next five years, it seems, even though the source of all this extra cash is open to question. I have no desire to urge you to use your vote in any particular way. I would urge you though, with so much electoral uncertainty this time around, to use your vote one way or another. Whoever you vote for, good luck on May 7. See analysis, pages 8 and 9
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Use your vote on May 7 The UK is going to the ballot box this month in a general election, the outcome of which has rarely been so unpredictable. As Nursing Management went to press, polls suggested that the two main parties are unable to muster 70% of the vote between them. Even a coalition with any one of the other parties would not mean a majority in parliament. Any way you cut it, the days of the two-horse race have gone. So who will make a deal with whom, and over what, to secure a place in government?
Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3186 Email: [email protected]
Against this uncertainty have been published two reports on the nursing workforce, one by Unison and one by the Royal College of Nursing (page 6).
Senior production editor Julie Hickey Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3148 Email: [email protected] Administration manager Helen Hyland Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3138 Email: [email protected]
The first highlights how hospitals across the UK have staffing levels that are dangerously low. The second reveals how more and more applicants are being turned away from nursing degree programmes even though nursing services are over-stretched.
Administration assistant Sandra Lynch BUSINESS UNIT Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 NURSING MANAGEMENT RCNi, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW Nursing Management is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: British Nursing Index, Medline and Ovid
RCN general secretary Peter Carter says: ‘Whoever forms the next government must take immediate action to grow the nursing workforce, and ensure
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NURSING MANAGEMENT
All the major parties are itching to spend more on the health service even though the source of this extra cash is open to question
Nick Lipley Editor
it can keep up with demand with a sustainable and long-term plan. ‘Unlike many problems facing the health service, the solution to the nursing workforce is very simple, and is a matter of political will. With more people wanting to nurse than ever, the next government has the power to increase training places and expand the supply of nurses. If it does not, it will be failing a generation of patients.’ This ‘simple solution’ does require extra funding, however, in terms of education, student support and salaries after these students have registered and found work. But then, all the major parties are itching to spend more on the health service over the next five years, it seems, even though the source of all this extra cash is open to question. I have no desire to urge you to use your vote in any particular way. I would urge you though, with so much electoral uncertainty this time around, to use your vote one way or another. Whoever you vote for, good luck on May 7. See analysis, pages 8 and 9
Our mission Nursing Management inspires and shares professional excellence in nursing leadership and patient care. The journal is editorially independent and opinions expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the policy of the RCN, nor that of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Follow us: @NMJournalRCN
Read more at: rcni.com
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