Free online event

Courage of compassion : transforming nurses’ and midwives’ working environments to enable them to flourish

Following the release of the Kings Fund report on The courage of compassion last month, they are providing a  free online event on 3 December in partnership with the RCN Foundation. Their panel will discuss how we can better support nurses and midwives to flourish at work and to provide compassionate care in a sustainable way.

To book your place click here.

Out of sight – who cares?

A review of restraint, seclusion and segregation for autistic people, and people with a learning disability and/or mental health condition

Source – Kings Fund Health Management and Policy Alert

This report tells the story of restrictive practices from the perspective of people who have experienced it first-hand and looks at how long-term segregation was used. The review finds that the environment of mental health hospitals was often not therapeutic. It also finds that some people were admitted without proper assessment and did not have an assessment of their needs while in hospital, resulting in the lack of a clear care and treatment plan.

A Year Of Integrated Care Systems: Reviewing The Journey So Far

The King’s Fund, September 2018
Integrated care systems represent a fundamental and far-reaching change in how the NHS works across different services and with external partners. This report is based on interviews with eight of the ‘first wave’ integrated care systems to understand how they are developing and to identify lessons for local systems and national policy-makers.
Click here to view the full report.