Analysis: Will the DOH white paper result in healthy choices?
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The Department of Health's latest plan for public health aims mainly at tackling inequalities in health that exist between deprived and more affluent parts of the country among other objectives of the plan. However, the nurses are disappointed by the increasing work pressure on them and reveal that the plan over-concentrates on deprivation in urban areas to the cost of rural communities.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2004
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Insurance plans threaten to worsen nursing blame culture
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The Department of Health report has stated that it is thinking on the lines of making professional indemnity insurance compulsory for registration of all non-medical healthcare professional including nurses. RCN, however, has warned that this will lead to increase in blame culture in the NHS and will put the nurses in bad state.
Publication Name: Nursing Times
Subject: Health
ISSN: 0954-7762
Year: 2007
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