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News Virtual seminars launched We have developed a new virtual seminars programme so that you can access most of the content of our free courses whenever and wherever you want. Each seminar comes as a series of audio files which you can listen to on your computer or download to your MP3 player. The first two virtual seminars are "Strategic Thinking" and "Setting up a Nurse-led Social Enterprise in Health" and these are entirely free to access. "Strategic Thinking" covers
This seminar is available at www.nursingleadership.org.uk/seminars/seminar_strategy.php "Creating a Nurse-led Social Enterprise in Health" covers
This seminar is available at www.nursingleadership.org.uk/seminars/seminar_social.php Health Foundation Leadership Fellows Award scheme Now in its fifth and final year, the Health Foundation Leadership Fellows Award scheme provides personal and professional development opportunities to individuals who have the potential to improve the quality of health care services in the United Kingdom. Successful applicants will benefit from almost two years of one-to-one coaching, learning sets, seminars and workshops. They will also work with experienced leadership development consultants to identify and address specific training needs. Involvement in the scheme benefits the award holder, their employing organisation, and the health service more widely, as they strive to become more effective leaders driving through improvements in health care. The Health Foundation is particularly keen to encourage applications from Northern Ireland for this year's awards. Website: www.health.org.uk/current_work/leadership_schemes/leadership_fellows.html Deadline for the receipt of completed applications: 8 September 2008. Self-assessment tests - What is your team role? How innovative is your problem-solving approach? and How effective are you at networking? There are a number of self-assessment tests to help you find your personal preferences and provide specific advice and resources based on these. To find out your team role, visit www.nursingleadership.org.uk/test2.php The Foundation of Nursing Studies Awards 2008 - Rewarding Excellence in Nursing and Healthcare Practice The Foundation of Nursing Studies (FoNS) is delighted to invite applications for four awards: * Mallabar Award for Developments in Practice that Improve Patient Care Overall Aims of the Awards 1. To reward nurses, midwives and health visitors who are able to demonstrate achievement or excellence in developing practice The awards are open to all nurses, midwives and health visitors working in any practice setting and at any level UK-wide. Applications can be from individual nurses or nurse-led healthcare teams. To find out more about how you can get your innovative work recognised and rewarded http://www.fons.org/re_current.asp Run your own Primary Care Trust Could you run a succesful PCT? Can you bring your community back from the brink of a healthcare disaster and stay within budget? Dr Foster have developed an online game which simulates running a PCT.This game provides you with a range of tools, from health needs mapping to hospitals, GPs and health visitors, to help you improve the health of your local population. You can even rank yourself against your friends and colleagues on the "High Score" table :) See how your skills rank - play Virtual PCT. Harkness fellowship in health care policy and practice 2009/10 The Commonwealth Fund's Harkness Fellowships in Health Care Policy and Practice provide a unique opportunity for mid-career health services researchers and practitioners from Australia, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, and the United Kingdom to spend up to 12 months in the United States, conducting original research and working with leading U.S. health policy experts. To find out more, visit www.commonwealthfund.org/fellowships Deadline: 5 September 2008 High-performing healthcare charities could win up to £35,000 GSK is offering nine category winners £25,000 each and the overall winner £35,000. Up to ten organisations can win highly commended or runners up awards and receive between £3,000 and £5,000. Organisations must be at least three years old, working in a health related field in the UK, with a total annual income between £10,000 and £1 million. Winners can decide how to spend the award money. To enter, visit www.kingsfund.org.uk/gskimpactawards before 26th September 2008. Do you know an NHS Hero who is the Pride of Britain? To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the NHS, the Pride of Britain Awards on ITV1 has launched a special category. All staff are invited to nominate their NHS hero, an individual who personifies for them the very best of the service. Now in its 10th year, the awards attract more than eight million viewers on ITV1 prime time. It's the night when over 100 stars - from HRH Prince Charles and the Prime Minister to Kylie, Victoria and David Beckham, Helen Mirren - honour the country's unsung heroes. Do you know a truly inspiring person who deserves to be recognised for their dedication and commitment? Or perhaps you would like to nominate a colleague who constantly goes beyond the call of duty? Whatever their role, the category is open to anyone who works full or part time within the NHS. If you know a person you would like to nominate, please do so by Thursday, August 8. The winner of the NHS Hero Award will be chosen by a panel of distinguished judges, which includes Sarah Brown and eminent heart surgeon Professor Sir Magdi Yacoub. The panel will meet to decide the winner before the awards dinner, hosted by Carol Vorderman, which takes place in London on Tuesday, September 30 The Pride of Britain Awards 2008 will be screened the following night, Wednesday, October 3 on ITV 1 between 8pm and 10pm. NHS category can be nominated at www.prideofbritain.com/contentPages/forms/Nomination.aspx, deadline 8 August Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) awards Applications are welcome for the following awards from any nurse, midwife or health visitor working in the community, at any level, from England, Wales or Northern Ireland. Applications from groups of nurses working across traditional boundaries are especially welcome. i) Careers in the community bursary. Available to any registered nurse or midwife who has been working in a community or primary care setting in England, Wales or Northern Ireland for less than 3 years Or currently working in a non-community setting who needs to acquire skills specifically relevant to community nursing in anticipation of working in primary care. Up to 500GBP per person. Applications are welcomed throughout the year. ii) Outstanding Service. This award recognises the remarkable service given by a unique group of community nurses: those who have achieved and delivered care above and beyond the call of duty. Nominations must be co-signed by two nominees. Application forms can be obtained from the QNI website. The deadline for applications is 9 February 2009. iii) QNI Fund for Innovation. This fund will seek to support projects that will inspire others and improve community nursing practice, giving excellence the recognition it deserves. Funding of 7,500GBP per project is available to community nurse-led project in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. Nurses involved in projects supported by the QNI Fund for Innovation will be eligible for the QNI's year-long professional development programme. Closing date for applications is 26 January 2009. iv) QNI and Association of British Paediatric Nurses Fund for Innovation in Paediatric Nursing. Priority will be given to projects implementing/undertaking a direct intervention with patients or clients that will improve services and/or develop practice in the care of patients at home and in the community. The amount available is 2,500GBP. Closing date for applications is 26 January 2009. v) QNI and Alzheimer's Society Excellence in Dementia Care Award. Priority will be given to projects implementing/undertaking a direct intervention with patients or clients that will improve services and/or develop practice in the care of patients at home or in the community, affected by Dementia. The amount available is 7,500GBP. Closing date for applications is 26 January 2009. vi) Maureen Acland Award for Research and development. This award has been established to encourage and promote research and development in community, primary care and public health nursing. Applications are invited from all branches and disciplines of community based nursing. We are looking for applications from nurses who are working directly with patients and who are interested in undertaking research. The amount available is 7,500GBP per project. Closing date for applications is 26 January 2009. Contact: Anne Pearson (ii - vi) and Joanne Moorby (i) Website: www.qni.org.uk High Quality Care For All (the "Darzi report") sets out the future direction of the NHS A long-awaited report by Lord Darzi, the Health minister, proposes that nurses create new organisations offering physiotherapy, health checks for illnesses such as diabetes, and immunisation programmes on the NHS. They will be encouraged to be more entrepreneurial, to run their own social enterprises for the NHS and they could even employ doctors, turning the traditional model for a GP's surgery on its head. Ministers believe the competition from nurses will shake up family doctors who have become set in their ways. Lord Darzi announced that the nurses who leave local primary care trusts to run such social enterprises will be able to keep their NHS pensions which has been a sticking point. The minister, a renowned surgeon, said that for the first time, staff will be given a "right to request" that a nurse-led organisation be created. Primary care trusts which run local health services will be forced to consider the requests. If the PCT agrees it would improve care, a new independent NHS organisation would be established to provide services to patients, under contract to the PCT, using NHS resources. High Quality Care For All sets a new foundation for a health service that empowers staff and gives patients choice. It ensures that health care will be personalised and fair, include the most effective treatments within a safe system, and help patients to stay healthy. People will be helped to stay healthy through the investment of record amounts in well being and prevention services. The new “Reduce Your Risk” campaign to raise awareness of free vascular checks for 40-74 year-olds. Front line staff will be enabled to initiate and lead change that improves quality of care for patients. There will be no new targets from the centre, with service providers accountable to patients and the public. There will be a clinical voice at every level of the service, and investment in new programmes of clinical leadership. A new workforce strategy will fully support NHS staff. The new independent body NHS Medical Education England will scrutinise workforce planning proposals for doctors and dentists. The investment in foundation periods for nurses will triple and a new tariff-based system for education funding will see funding follow the student, improving transparency and rewarding quality. The report can be downloaded here (pdf format 2.7 Mb) New self-understanding tests - What is your level of innovation? How effective are you at networking? These 2 new self-assessment tests are now available. Please use the drop down menu above to access them or click here for the innovation test and here for the Networking test. How To Make Your Case For Education and Training ‘How To Make Your Case For Education and Training’ is the name of the new toolkit launched by leading education charity Education for Health. It contains evidence based, disease specific business proposals for nurses to use to establish their current levels of knowledge, understanding and experience, and plan development of their competencies within the framework of the health needs of their practice population in a way which is meaningful to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QoF), the Knowledge and Skills Framework (KSF) and National Workforce Competencies.
Foundation of Nursing Studies Small Projects Programme Special Focus: Supporting Developments in Practice to Improve Fundamental Aspects of Care. FoNS is delighted to be partnering with Martha Lane Fox's new trust, Antigone, on a new programme to offer support to two nurse-led teams over a twelve - eighteen month period to develop an initiative that will improve an essential aspect of care. Facilitation will be available for both teams from one of FoNS' practice development facilitators plus funding of up to £2000. Visit www.fons.org/ahcp_funding.asp to find out more. Applications are welcomed from nurse-led teams working in any healthcare setting UK-wide. Closing date for applications is 23rd May 2008. Burdett Trust for Nursing Grants The Burdett Trust for Nursing provides a number of grants every year. All applications must be focussed explicitly on improving care for patients and users of services. Projects invariably will be led by a registered member of one of the nursing or midwifery professions, but may include multi-professional or team-working interventions. These interventions could involve clinical care, social care, leadership, education and research. Applications should fit into one of the following six categories: Level One Grant (£10,000 - £50,000) Level Two Grant (over £50,000) Burdett Award Healthcare Commission Report on Learning From Complaints The Healthcare Commission is urging NHS trusts to learn from patients’ complaints and improve complaints handling, with key proposals including apologising more often when they do make mistakes. The report shows that complaints about a lack of basic nursing care, poor communications, overly brisk GP consultations and a lack of help for mental health service users are among the key issues patients raise. The Spotlight on Complaints report covers more than 10,000 complaints that were independently reviewed by the Commission between August 2006 and July 2007. Each year the NHS delivers 380 million treatments and receives around 140,000 complaints. The Commission reviews cases where the patient is unhappy with the response. This report, the second of its kind, looks at how complaints are handled and the common themes to enable trusts to learn lessons from them. Of the cases reviewed in this period, the number of complaints the Commission returned to trusts for further action fell to 26% from 33% the previous year, suggesting that complaints are being handled better by trusts when they are first made. The Commission upheld or partially upheld almost 20% in favour of the complainant. This was an increase from just 8% the previous year. To read more, click here RCN Scholarships New free courses offered (click on titles to find out more) Presenting magically (FULL) - Monday 9th June 2008 in Whaley Bridge, Derbyshire. These free places are being offered on a strictly first-come first-served basis. Leaders for Change Programme launched by the Health Foundation We’re all so busy and there’s so much change in the NHS, that time out to plan change is crucial. The aim of the Leaders for Change award scheme is to equip individuals with the necessary skills and knowledge to act as effective leaders of change and to achieve sustained service improvement that is directly related to improving the quality of healthcare. The modular programme, delivered by Lancaster University Management School (LUMS), provides the space and structure to reflect and develop understanding of the change process. The scheme is work-based and develops learning based on participants’ own experiences. Participants choose a service improvement project in which they have a lead role, which will form the context for skills development during the scheme. The scheme is free of charge to participants and applications must be received by 9th May 2008. What is provided? The Leaders for Change scheme is provided part-time over a maximum period of 14 months. Successful applicants must be prepared to participate fully in all aspects of the scheme. Travel and subsistence costs incurred through participation in the Change Agents Skills Programme will be covered as part of the award. An allowance of £3,000 is provided for training and development needs identified at an assessment interview. An honorarium payment of £600 for mentoring support will also be provided. To find out more, visit the Health Foundation. 2008 Mary Seacole Awards The Mary Seacole Leadership Awards are worth up to £12,500 each and emphasise Mary Seacole’s pioneering role in leadership by providing the opportunity to: • develop effective leadership and communication skills The award scheme also provides Mary Seacole Development Awards of up to £6,250 each to enable nurses, midwives and health visitors to make positive and lasting contributions that promote high quality patient/client-focused care. For an application form for a Development Award, please visit www.dh.gov.uk/en/Aboutus/Chiefprofessionalofficers/Chiefnursingofficer/DH_074084. The deadline for applications is 7th May 2008. Nursing in Practice Awards Looking for an opportunity to share your expertise and innovative ideas with other primary care specialists across the UK and the chance to win £500 and attend an awards lunch on 19 November 2008 at the NEC in Birmingham? The Nursing in Practice Awards 2008 will reward best practice in a variety of clinical areas, and are designed to recognise excellence and innovation in the primary care setting. Applications are invited from individual nurses or teams of primary healthcare professionals who have undertaken projects to improve the quality of care for groups of patients in the following clinical areas: Cardiac care, Childhood immunisation, Dermatology, Diabetes, Mental health including dual diagnosis, Obesity, Respiratory care, Sexual health, Travel health and Team of the year . To find out more, visit Nursing in Practice website and the deadline for applications is 23rd March 2008. "Modernising nursing careers - setting the direction" published This report from the 4 Chief Nursing Officers sets the direction for modernising nursing careers. The priorities focus on the careers of registered nurses, but it is recognised that nurses do not work in isolation and nursing teams include more than registered nurses. Nursing careers also need to take account of changes in the careers of other professional groups. Importantly, this report recognises that careers take different forms: while some will choose to climb an upward ladder of increasing responsibility and higher rewards, many other nurses choose a more lateral career journey, moving within and between care groups and settings. Our actions are for all nurses no matter what the nature of their career. The report can be downloaded here (pdf format - 323 Kb) New Social Enterprise Briefings The Queens Nursing Institute has just published a briefing guide to Social Enterprises which can be downloaded here (pdf format - 133 Kb). There is also an excellent collection of resources on the Social Enterprise page of the NHS Networks siteTrusts not complying with Race Relations Act District nurses ‘lack leadership’, says QNI A lack of professional leadership has left the district nursing workforce without an effective voice in policy making and planning, according to a report from the Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI). The report, Vision and Values: A call for action on community nursing, published last month, is based on interviews with groups of district nurses across the UK. It says that many district nurses are critical of nursing organisations for an absence of vision or national leadership at a time when their workloads are increasing but their numbers are dwindling. Early discharge of patients means that, according to one nurse, ‘the patients emerge quicker and sicker so we have to work faster and slicker’. Many district nurses report staff shortages and that their services run on good will alone. The QNI argues that a national vision for district and community nursing, and a strategy to deliver it, are needed. This would include a leadership development programme to ensure that the expertise of district nurse is integral to decision making about policy, strategic commissioning and service delivery.Institute director Rosemary Cook called for a new national forum of professional organisations and health departments to take forward issues raised by the report. Chief nursing officer for England Chris Beasley said: ‘With all the developments in community and primary care, it is vital that the profession begins to explore what we need to do to ensure our profession can fulfil its own aspirations and those of commissioners. This QNI report provides a helpful and timely contribution to this process’ The report can be ordered from the QNI at www.qni.org.uk Burdett Trust for Nursing launches 'Leadership and the Business of Caring' - a project to take patient care issues "from bedside to boardroom." Increasingly patient-centred healthcare provision and commissioning are demanding a different approach to the way local Boards operate and manage patient care .Customer care, reputation, marketing, risk management and innovative quality care now need equal ranking with finance, targets and outcomes on Boards' agendas. OPM will conduct surveys, interviews and workshops over the next two months involving a wide range of those with professional and community interests in healthcare. It will report results and recommendations in mid April. Alan Gibbs, chairman of the Trust, said: 'The development of leadership for patient care is one of our key areas of interest and we have made it the subject of the Trust's first commissioned project. Being independent gives us a unique opportunity to push the boundaries of innovation in support of patients and nurses.' For more info, please visit the Burdett Fund for Nursing. Self-assessment toolkit - From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer’s review of mental health nursing This toolkit is intended to complement the report From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer’s review of mental health nursing. From values to action makes a number of good practice recommendations that apply to nurses working in services for people across the whole age range. Recommendations relate to nursing practice and education and the organisational context in which care is provided. The toolkit is largely for the use of organisations, in consultation with stakeholders – but anyone can use it to reflect on current local nursing-related issues. It is anticipated that, during 2008, stakeholder organisations that contributed to From values to action will together review developments to date. A research evaluation project is also being established to identify progress and ways in which successful implementation can happen. Towards a Million Change Agents - a review of the social movements literature: implications for large scale change in the NHS by Paul Bate, Helen Bevan &Glenn Robert This review offers a new perspective on large-scale systems change which may provide new ways of thinking and approaching service improvement and organisational change and development within the NHS. Impact of the Manager’s Span of Control on Leadership and Performance by Doran et al This study examined the relationships between types of leadership, the number of staff that managers are responsible for, and patient and nurse outcomes. • Nurse managers with positive leadership styles, who develop, stimulate, and
inspire followers to exceed their own self-interests for a higher purpose and are
based on a series of exchanges or interactions between leader and followers, had
more-satisfied staff. The full report can be downloaded here (pdf format - 453 Kb) Guide to social enterprises One of the areas highlighted in the white paper is the increasing role of social enterprises and we are receiving an increasing number of queries about what social enterprises are and how to develop them. The Social Enterprise have published an excellent publication, "a guide to social enterprises" which can be downloaded here (4.1 Mb pdf format). Review of the literature on team leadership published We have published our Review of the Literature on Team Leadership which was commissioned by the Health Foundation. The review can be downloaded here (pdf format 632Kb) and contains an analysis of the key literature on teams, team development and team leadership. It also provides an evidence base to a variety of team interventions and should be of particular use to those who are trying to develop team leadership prorgammes. New leadership literature added to the site We have also added an evaluation of the RCN Clinical Leadership Programme and an evaluation of the LEO (Leading Empowered Organisations) Programme which were both commissioned by the Department of Health. The LEO evaluation can be downloaded here (pdf format 753 Kb) and the RCN evaluation can be downloaded here (2.1 Mb) Evaluation of the impact of nurse consultants published "An Evaluation of the Impact of Nurse, Midwife and Health Visitor Consultants" is a report developed by Kings College London. The main aim of the study was to evaluate the impact of nurse, midwife and health visitor consultants on service delivery and patient care. Additional aims were to explore their role as leaders, to analyse how consultants craft their role and to determine factors associated with greater effectiveness. The report can be downloaded here (pdf format 1.1 Mb). Evaluation of the "Modern Matron" role published The Department of Health Policy Research Programme commissioned a research team from the RCN Institute and the University of Sheffield to investigate: a) how NHS trusts were establishing ‘modern matron’ posts; b) the experiences of nurses in these posts; and c) the impact of their activities on patient care. The research team was also asked to identify messages and lessons for trusts about the processes and inputs that enabled matrons to work effectively. Click
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