Scotland Archived News: 2010
December
NMC/Regulatory
Update: New
warning about bogus NMC callers ; Recent
News and fitness to practise hearings ; NMC
Publications
HPC Update: Current In
Focus
NHS
Tayside delivers to GPs
Scotland
looks at NHS office software
New from RCN: Guidance
on safe nurse staffing levels in the UK
New
Assistant Director set to improve NMC understanding of nursing and midwifery
issues in Scotland and Northern Ireland
£3.4m
paves the way for draft care bill
Online
nurse training from GE Healthcare
Sussex
practice uses Scots call-centre
Funding
for rural broadband
New
ways of improving health
SIRN
& SMS Diagnostics & Therapeutics Event - Glasgow - 23 February
2011
October
NMC/Regulatory
Update: Warning
about bogus NMC callers ; NMC
chair to address European Parliament ;
HPC Update: Current In
Focus
Flying
doctors take to the air
Scots
assess i-device security
Scottish
Patient Safety Programme and article
Prescription
charge axe
Re-appointment
to the board of NHS 24
September
NMC/Regulatory
Update: New
education standards for nursing launched ; NMC
to review third part of register ; Changes
to registration fee processes and payments ; sign
up to receive NMC news updates
HPC Update: Latest
edition of HPC In Focus now online ; HPC
launches consultation to review the generic standards of proficiency
Plans
to improve quality of primary care highlight improving communication
The
Scottish Health Survey: Topic Report UK Comparisons
Doctors
call for UK prescribing chart
Healthcare
Improvement Scotland
August
NMC/Regulatory
Update: NMC
Strategic Context Report ; New NMC Report Moving
forward with healthcare support workforce regulation ; Consultation
report on proposed new standards for pre-registration nursing education
; CHRE
annual review
Scotland
launches NHS Inform and NHS
advice service
Free
Personal and Nursing Care, 2008-09 Report
Join a FREE Webinex on 19th August 4 - 5pm - Expert
on Call: Shared decision making and decision aids
June-July
NHS
Scotland gets Knowledge Network
Lanarkshire
GPs have Vision
Protecting
frontline NHS services
Technology
helps to tackle superbugs
May - June
NMC/Regulatory
Update: New
NMC site means better browsing for three million web visitors ; NMC
chairs first meeting of European nursing regulators on the review of EU
legislation ;
HPC Update: HPC
'In Focus'
NHS
Grampian texts drinkers hold, enough
Response
to Queen's Speech
MH
records found in Asda car park
Nurses
say technology can cut lost time
Quality
Strategy gives more time to care
HEAT
target E7: Electronic Management of Referrals
GP
access improves
April - May 2010
NMC/Regulatory
Update: Updated
Advice sheet on Mixing medicines ; Employers
of nurses and midwives get new tool to improve patient safety ; New
options for becoming a sign-off mentor include interactive use of electronic
resources . NMC
News - Back Issues
HPC Update: Latest
HPC IN Focus
GP
Patient Experience Survey
NHS
Scotland picks Ensemble to integrate and NHS
computer system
£4
million investment in telecare
Report
on out-of-hours healthcare provision in rural areas
Work
needed on NHS 24 - MSPs
NHS
activity statistics
March - April
NMC/Regulatory
Update: Changes
to standards for prescribing of unlicensed medicine ; NMC
response to CHRE Fitness to Practice Report ; NMC
signs up to share information about fitness to practise investigations
; professional
accountability in telephone triage work ;
HPC Update: HPC
in Focus
Do you know about Care
Information Scotland?
Patient
Rights Bill
Clinical
portal and telehealth development in NHS Scotland
Scots
MPs criticise slow progress on IT
NHS
24 extends Clinical Solutions deal
Reshaping
care for older people
Universal
health checks planned
February - March
NMC/Regulatory
Update; Do
you want to help develop a framework for revalidation? Take part in our
survey ; What
do you think of our guidance on raising concerns? Let us know before 31
March ; NMC
signs up to share information about fitness to practise investigations
with other safeguarding organisations
HPC Update: February HPC
In Focus
Festival
of Learning 2010 - Edinburgh Napier University 30/31st March
Electronic
Management of Referrals
NHS
Quality Strategy
Sign
up to save a life
Nursing Times has an interview with Professor Weir-Hughes:
'We
need to be clear about our primary responsibility'
Take part in an academic study via this on line survey! Understanding
the views of health care professionals towards alcohol
January
NMC/Regulatory
Update; Have
your say: nursing education standards are changing
Events
for members of the public ; NMC
consultation on standards for pre-registration nursing education
HPC Update: HPC
launches new guidance for students ; HPC
launches guidance on health and character
No
action against doc who accessed ECS
Information
Governance Bulletin
National
child health records launched
Advances
in tackling cancer
Robison
thanks Scotland’s care workers
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