Nursing is the most trusted profession, but anyone in the UK can refer to themselves as a nurse even if they have been struck off, have no qualifications or have been convicted of a crime, writes Professor Alison Leary.
A group of nurses and researchers are calling on government to help protect the public by changing the law to protect the title nurse: https://petition.parliament.uk/petitions/587939.
Richmond Group members Caroline Abrahams and Juliet Bouverie OBE, and our Chair Lynda Thomas write for the NHS Assembly about the key role the voluntary sector has played in supporting people living with long-term conditions during the Covid-19 pandemic.
Liam O'Toole, Chair of The Richmond Group, sends a message to all our member charities' volunteers during Volunteers Week
Our members are working hard to support people through the coronavirus (Covid-19) pandemic. We've brought together links to all their online information in one place, to help you find and share the information you need.
Age UK
https://www.ageuk.org.uk/information-advice/health-wellbeing/conditions-illnesses/coronavirus/
Alzheimer's Society
Guest blog from Dr Tom Margham, Tower Hamlets GP and member of the Taskforce for Multiple Conditions Expert Advisory Group
Guest blog from Wendy Broderick, Member of the Taskforce for Multiple Conditions Expert Advisory Group and expert by experience
Guest blog from Moira McGrath, Director of Integrated Commissioning NHS Lambeth CCG & London Borough of Lambeth and member of Taskforce on Multiple Conditions Expert Advisory Group
I have worked for 27 years as a commissioner in the NHS. For the last five years I have commissioned health and social care in Lambeth.
Guest blog from Ewan King, Chief Operating Officer at the Social Care Institute for Excellence.
In January along with our partners Think Local Act Personal we launched the DHSC-funded Care Innovation Network. Our goal is to answer this question: “How do we take proven person-centred models of care and support and bring them to more people?”
Guest blog from Andy Bell, Deputy Chief Executive at Centre for Mental Health and member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions.
Guest blog from Dave Buck, Senior Fellow at The King's Fund and member of the Expert Advisory Group to the Taskforce on Multiple Conditions.
It has taken a while for everybody to digest the NHS long-term plan, a meaty document of over 130 pages and by some counts around 500 commitments. As if that weren’t enough, it has also been followed by a plethora of further detail.
