Editorial Editor Nick Lipley Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3166 Email: [email protected] Managing director Rhonda Oliver Editor in chief Jean Gray Senior editor Gary Bell Assistant editor Sophie Blakemore Acting assistant editor Jennifer Sprinks Head of production Fiona Maclean Senior production editor Julie Hickey Art directors Ken McLoone, Paul Swainson Deputy art director Minesh Parmar Picture editor Helen Jones, Karen Gordon Digital director John Day IT and new media manager Alex Oldfield Web editor Amanda Carter
Mayday message for senior nurses
ADMINISTRATION Administration manager Helen Hyland Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch
People all over the world are preparing to show their appreciation for the nursing profession this month in the run up to Nurses’ Day on May 12.
BUSINESS UNIT Commercial director Tony O’Rourke PA to commercial director Kim Sanders Head of marketing Helen Sumner Deputy head of marketing Michelle Day Marketing executive Louise Gallagher Group educational projects manager Laura Downes Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Advertisement and sponsorship sales manager Neil Hobson Senior sponsorship and advertising specialist Julia Gomersall Advertisement and sponsorship executives Rachel Fisher, Kelly Smith Advertisement production executive Sally Gauntlett Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 Classified advertisement manager Andy McCallum Sales project specialist Freddie Collier Classified advertisement executives Mandy Croggon, Shona Gethin
In the UK for example, the RCN is helping to lead celebrations to mark Florence Nightingale’s birthday by collecting members’ inspirational stories about their work and publishing them online. Senior nurses, however, may find it harder than usual to enter into the spirit of the festivities given the latest Frontline First report from the college.
CONSULTANT EDITOR Debbie Mazhindu Reader in clinical nursing practice and innovation at Buckinghamshire New University and Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Gemma Ellis Consultant nurse in adult critical care, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Jenny Kay Director of quality, Merton Clinical Commissioning Group, London Anastasia Mallidou Assistant professor, school of nursing, University of Victoria BC, Canada Ada ter Maten Nurse researcher, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Healthcare, Netherlands Niall McCrae Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London Elaine Strachan-Hall Registered nurse, South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body Donna Swinden Senior therapist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Frances Wong Professor (school of nursing) and associate dean (faculty of health and social sciences), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China Haiou Xia Professor at the school of nursing, Fudan University, China
According to the report, there are now almost 4,000 fewer senior nursing posts in the NHS than four years ago (see page 6). Staff in bands 7 and 8 have been seen as ‘disposable’, the college claims, and a quick way to save money and, as these staff disappear, so too do clinical knowledge and leadership. Dean Royles, chief executive of NHS Employers, which describes itself as ‘the voice of employers in the NHS’, thinks otherwise, however.
NURSING MANAGEMENT RCN Publishing Company, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW Nursing Management is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: British Nursing Index, Medline and Ovid ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 6,523 (Jan-Dec 2013) SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG. Tel: +44 (0)345 772 6100 Personal rates for print edition: from £66 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional print edition rates: from £446 a year Email: [email protected] ©2014 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 1354-5760 (print). ISSN 2047-8976 (online) Printed by Stephens and George, Merthyr Tydfil Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCN Publishing nm.rcnpublishing.com
NURSING MANAGEMENT
Senior nurses are expert co-ordinators of complex care and act as experienced role models for more junior staff members
Nick Lipley Editor
He dismisses the RCN statistics as ‘simplified figures’, suggesting that they fail to take account of ‘under-appreciated’ staff such as physiotherapists, dietitians and occupational therapists. What we need, Mr Royles says, is a ‘sophisticated debate’ about the type of skill mix that achieves the best outcomes for patients and service users. I am sure we all appreciate his timely warning against being simplistic. But it’s difficult to ignore the simplicity of the RCN message, that ‘reckless policy is draining the NHS of experience’. It is difficult, too, to see senior nursing staff in bands 7 and 8 as being anything other than indispensible; they are expert co-ordinators of complex care and experienced role models for more junior staff in nursing and other professional groups working in health care. This May 12 we need more than ever to publicise the value of senior nursing staff and how the profession more generally improves the lives of millions of people around the world.
Our mission Nursing Management inspires and shares professional excellence in nursing leadership and patient care. The journal is editorially independent and opinions expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the policy of the RCN, nor that of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
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Mayday message for senior nurses
ADMINISTRATION Administration manager Helen Hyland Email: [email protected] Administration assistant Sandra Lynch
People all over the world are preparing to show their appreciation for the nursing profession this month in the run up to Nurses’ Day on May 12.
BUSINESS UNIT Commercial director Tony O’Rourke PA to commercial director Kim Sanders Head of marketing Helen Sumner Deputy head of marketing Michelle Day Marketing executive Louise Gallagher Group educational projects manager Laura Downes Display advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8872 3123 Advertisement and sponsorship sales manager Neil Hobson Senior sponsorship and advertising specialist Julia Gomersall Advertisement and sponsorship executives Rachel Fisher, Kelly Smith Advertisement production executive Sally Gauntlett Classified advertisements Tel: +44 (0)20 8423 1333 Classified advertisement manager Andy McCallum Sales project specialist Freddie Collier Classified advertisement executives Mandy Croggon, Shona Gethin
In the UK for example, the RCN is helping to lead celebrations to mark Florence Nightingale’s birthday by collecting members’ inspirational stories about their work and publishing them online. Senior nurses, however, may find it harder than usual to enter into the spirit of the festivities given the latest Frontline First report from the college.
CONSULTANT EDITOR Debbie Mazhindu Reader in clinical nursing practice and innovation at Buckinghamshire New University and Imperial Healthcare NHS Trust, London EDITORIAL ADVISORY BOARD Jane Brookes Ward manager (paediatric medical), Nottingham Children’s Hospital, Nottingham Geraldine Cunningham Associate director of culture change, Barts Health NHS, London Naomi Elliott Director of international initiatives, school of nursing and midwifery, Trinity College Dublin Gemma Ellis Consultant nurse in adult critical care, Cardiff and Vale University Health Board Jenny Kay Director of quality, Merton Clinical Commissioning Group, London Anastasia Mallidou Assistant professor, school of nursing, University of Victoria BC, Canada Ada ter Maten Nurse researcher, Rotterdam University of Applied Sciences, Institute of Healthcare, Netherlands Niall McCrae Lecturer at the Florence Nightingale School of Nursing and Midwifery, King’s College London Elaine Strachan-Hall Registered nurse, South Warwickshire Clinical Commissioning Group Governing Body Donna Swinden Senior therapist, Tees, Esk and Wear Valleys NHS Foundation Trust Frances Wong Professor (school of nursing) and associate dean (faculty of health and social sciences), Hong Kong Polytechnic University, HK, China Haiou Xia Professor at the school of nursing, Fudan University, China
According to the report, there are now almost 4,000 fewer senior nursing posts in the NHS than four years ago (see page 6). Staff in bands 7 and 8 have been seen as ‘disposable’, the college claims, and a quick way to save money and, as these staff disappear, so too do clinical knowledge and leadership. Dean Royles, chief executive of NHS Employers, which describes itself as ‘the voice of employers in the NHS’, thinks otherwise, however.
NURSING MANAGEMENT RCN Publishing Company, The Heights, 59-65 Lowlands Road, Harrow-on-the-Hill, Middlesex HA1 3AW Nursing Management is indexed, abstracted and/or published online in the following media: British Nursing Index, Medline and Ovid ABC APPLICATION APPROVED 6,523 (Jan-Dec 2013) SUBSCRIPTION DEPARTMENT Royal College of Nursing Journal subscription department, Copse Walk, Cardiff Gate Business Park, Cardiff CF23 8XG. Tel: +44 (0)345 772 6100 Personal rates for print edition: from £66 a year in the UK and Europe, and from £121 a year in the rest of the world. Institutional print edition rates: from £446 a year Email: [email protected] ©2014 RCN Publishing Company Ltd. All rights reserved. Not to be copied, transmitted or recorded in any way, in whole or part, without prior permission of the publishers. ISSN 1354-5760 (print). ISSN 2047-8976 (online) Printed by Stephens and George, Merthyr Tydfil Acceptance of an advertisement does not constitute a recommendation or an endorsement of a product or service, either by the RCN or RCN Publishing nm.rcnpublishing.com
NURSING MANAGEMENT
Senior nurses are expert co-ordinators of complex care and act as experienced role models for more junior staff members
Nick Lipley Editor
He dismisses the RCN statistics as ‘simplified figures’, suggesting that they fail to take account of ‘under-appreciated’ staff such as physiotherapists, dietitians and occupational therapists. What we need, Mr Royles says, is a ‘sophisticated debate’ about the type of skill mix that achieves the best outcomes for patients and service users. I am sure we all appreciate his timely warning against being simplistic. But it’s difficult to ignore the simplicity of the RCN message, that ‘reckless policy is draining the NHS of experience’. It is difficult, too, to see senior nursing staff in bands 7 and 8 as being anything other than indispensible; they are expert co-ordinators of complex care and experienced role models for more junior staff in nursing and other professional groups working in health care. This May 12 we need more than ever to publicise the value of senior nursing staff and how the profession more generally improves the lives of millions of people around the world.
Our mission Nursing Management inspires and shares professional excellence in nursing leadership and patient care. The journal is editorially independent and opinions expressed in it do not necessarily reflect the policy of the RCN, nor that of any contributor’s employing organisation, unless specifically stated.
Follow us: @NMJournalRCN
Read more at: nursingblog.rcnpublishing.co.uk
Visit us at: Nursing Management May 2014 | Volume 21 | Number 2
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