Call for assistant nurse role rethink The creation of new nursing assistant posts should be scrapped and money invested in "real nurses", experts say after research suggested the use of lower skilled posts was a risk.
Rollout of the new nursing associate roles starts in England in December.
Research in the BMJ Quality and Safety journal linked the use of junior care roles to higher death rates.
But ministers rejected the criticism, saying the new posts were on top of investment in fully qualified nurses. BBC News
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Rollout of the new nursing associate roles starts in England in December.
Research in the BMJ Quality and Safety journal linked the use of junior care roles to higher death rates.
But ministers rejected the criticism, saying the new posts were on top of investment in fully qualified nurses. BBC News
See also:
- Nursing skill mix in European hospitals: cross-sectional study of the association with mortality, patient ratings, and quality of care BMJ Quallity and Safety
- Patients one fifth more likely to die in hospitals with fewer qualified nurses The Daily Telegraph
- NHS nursing assistants could raise risk of death for patients, says study The Guardian
- Government accused of putting patients' lives at risk with one of lowest rates of qualified hospital nurses in Europe The Independent
- Diluting nursing skill mix linked to higher patient mortality risk, finds major study Nursing Times
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