Thursday, 25 February 2016

What's next for the nursing profession?

What's next for the nursing profession? Shifting care in the NHS from hospitals to homes could bring major changes to the way nurses work.

As 2016 takes hold, what will the year bring for nurses? It’s going to be a time of fresh challenges – this spring sees the introduction of professional revalidation with nurses being required to prove they are fit to practise. The government’s consultation on its controversial decision, announced in last autumn’s spending review, to abolish student nurse bursaries and replace them with loans, is also due to get underway. Its starting point will be how the new system will work – there will be no debate on whether bursaries should have been scrapped in the first place.

But the next 12 months also heralds new opportunities for the profession. Nurses are already breaking ground and playing a pivotal role in the vanguard sites – those pilot projects set up across the NHS that are testing new ways of working to deliver the government’s vision for the NHS in England, as outlined in the Five Year Forward ViewContinue reading... The Guardian

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