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What causes poor care?
Nursing Standard and the Patients Association hosted an emergency meeting in London to discuss the causes of poor care and its solutions.
Attended by many of the UK's top nurses, policy experts, patient champions as well as doctors and managers, all of them backed the idea of nurses and patients forming a partnership to tackle poor care concerns.
The duration of the film is 30 minutes.
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Read the transcript
Click the link below to read the transcipt of the emergency meeting film.
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Attendees
Find out more about the people who attended the emergency meeting.
Strategy for change
We report on the discussion that took place during the emergency meeting.
Priorities for action
A ten-point plan setting out priorities for patient care was agreed during the meeting.
The RCN Publishing Company is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Royal College of Nursing, the world's largest organisation for nurses. RCN Publishing produces one weekly, eight monthly and two quarterly nursing publications. Nursing Standard, the flagship journal, is the UK's biggest selling weekly for nursing. It is produced by RCN Publishing Company along with a suite of specialist nursing journals - Cancer Nursing Practice, Mental Health Practice, Learning Disability Practice, Nursing Children and Young People, Nursing Management, Emergency Nurse, Nursing Older People, Nurse Researcher and Primary Health Care. RCN Publishing Company also produce the RCN Bulletin, a major source of up-to-the-minute information for RCN members in all specialities, grades and working environments. With the latest nurse vacancies from trusts nationwide, it has become the most cost-effective nurse recruitment magazine available.