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Quality and the new NHS

01 May 2000

Emergency Nurse

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to increases nurses’ awareness of issues and methods involved in quality improvement in a healthcare...

Quality and the new NHS

08 September 1999

Nursing Standard

CPD

In this article, the authors explore the concept of quality in health care and examine in detail some of the methods currently being used to assess and improve it.

Challenging the balance of power: patient empowerment

11 February 2004

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Empowering patients is a central element of nursing care, according to the RCN (2003). This article discusses the reality of changing the balance of power in health...

Quality assurance and UK nurse education

15 March 2006

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Aim To evaluate the quality assurance model for nursing education in the United Kingdom (UK) for the first nine months after the inception in 2002 of the Nursing and...

Testing transformational guides

01 December 2009

Primary Health Care

General

The Queen’s Nursing Institute aims to improve the care of people in their homes. To that end it decided to draw on the expertise of members of its community nurse...

Quality and the new NHS

01 June 2000

Mental Health Practice

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes The aim of this article is to increases nurses’ awareness of issues and methods involved in quality improvement in a healthcare...

Quality and the new NHS

01 June 2000

Learning Disability Practice

CPD

In this article, the authors explore the concept of quality in health care and examine in detail some of the methods currently being used to assess and improve it.

Quality assurance of NHS funded healthcare education

01 October 2006

Nursing Management

Applied Leadership

The function of healthcare organisations such as the NHS is to provide people with prompt, high quality treatment when and where they need it (Department of Health...

Essence of care: a collaborative audit

01 March 2008

Nursing Management

Leadership

BEFORE THE Department of Health launched the Essence of Care initiative in 2001, nurses in management knew from public feedback that patients were concerned that...

Clinical audit: shining a light on good practice

23 July 2010

Nursing Management

Feature

Healthcare organisations undertake quality assurance to produce safe and effective patient care systems. Statutory quality assurance requirements are met through...