Will hourly rounds help nurses to concentrate more on caring?

Will hourly rounds help nurses to concentrate more on caring?: Like the curate’s egg, the Prime Minister’s announcement on improving the quality of nursing care on acute wards is good in parts. Given The King’s Fund’s and Health Foundation’s work on nursing rounds with the Hospital Pathways Programme, his support for hourly nursing rounds on inpatient wards and for the ‘visible figure of nursing authority’ on all wards is welcomed. The Health Foundation