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UKCC bites the dust: you pay the cost

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Nurses are likely to have to pay higher registration fees when the UKCC and four national nursing boards are abolished and a Nursing and Midwifery Council is set up. The reforms have been introduced because of concern about unsuitable people being put back onto the UKCC register after they have committed offences against patients. Recommendations which will protect the public include penalties for people who wrongly say they are nurses, policies for tackling incompetence, greater regulation of health care assistants and allowing people to remove themselves from the register.

Nurses, Associations

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Right to supply

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Plans to allow UK nurses the right to prescribe medicines to patients has been put forward to the government in a report which was carried out over a two-year period. The Crown report proposes nurses and other medical professionals be allowed to prescribe, although experts believe years of training and a change in the law is necessary before the proposals become reality. Professional competence is the measure by which prescribing takes place, therefore all prescribing nurses need to be adequately trained.

Prescription writing

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Oxygen of bad publicity: Amanda Jenkinson's appeal against a sentence for grievous bodily harm floundered in the appeal court last week

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Appeal court judges dismissed jailed nurse Amanda Jenkinson's attempts to overturn her conviction for interfering with a patient's oxygen equipment at Bassetlaw General Hospital in 1993. Jenkinson is serving five years following her conviction of causing grievous bodily harm with intent. At the appeal Jenkinson's defence barrister argued that she had been the victim of a smear campaign and claimed that witnesses had provided contradictory evidence at the trial.

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