Best Practice in Nursing Newspaper Issue 1

Anne Moger, Primary Care Nurse Advisor at NHS England discusses the independent body’s key priorities for practice nursing. What are you working on at the moment? There’s just myself working across a number of objectives for national practice nursing so each day is varied and busy! My number one priority at the moment is to develop a leadership model at regional and local level to provide more support in my role. I’m currently planning meetings with the regional directors of nursing to discuss how they might take this forward. Additionally, myself and Kath Evans (my counterpart who is NHS England’s Community Nurse Adviser), are co-chairs of a community and primary care nursing forum. We’re just doing a scoping exercise at the moment to find out where local and regional practice and district nurse forums are situated. We’d like to communicate with more nursing forums to provide information and share news and best practice. The forum already has a growing membership of nurses in practice, higher education institutions and stakeholders such as the CQC, RCN, RCGP and QNI. The forum began in September and we’re finding people want to come and talk to us and seek our views on a variety of strategic issues. It’s really encouraging. in primary care might be, especially around areas such as long-term conditions. It’s a tool that the area teams use for monitoring the GP contract and they find it has a variety of uses. However, nurse commissioners don’t seem to be aware of it. Raising awareness of this very useful tool is a major objective of mine. Could you tell us more about the web tool you’ve recently come across? How is NHS England working to tackle some of the issues affecting practice nurses at the moment? There’s a very useful NHS primary care web tool that all GP practices can use. By inputting data, you can compare your practice at CCG, national or regional level to find out where you feature around a whole range of predetermined indicators. It struck me while I was doing my detective work that this would be really useful in determining what the quality of nursing I’m currently working with the RCGP and RCN to develop a new toolkit for general practice nurses. This will provide useful, up-to-date information for nurses and also employers. One of the major issues for nurses is standardisation around employment in general practice. We will provide some guidance on this issue SP EA KE R ANNE MOGER DISCUSSES KEY PRIORITIES FOR PRACTICE NURSING Anne Moger through the tool kit, which is currently in development. My role also involves supporting the Nursing Directorate. More recently, I’ve been involved in discussions around indemnities as that’s becoming a real, thorny issue. The cost of indemnifying nurses that undertake additional work such as nurse prescribing or advanced practice has risen and I’m working with the directorate on that particular issue. Another key area is around revalidation. The NMC is proposing that practice nurses be placed on the risk register for revalidation as the council feels they may struggle to revalidate for a number of reasons. That’s something NHS England is also concerned about as we don’t want revalidation to create further n \

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