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After the Mid Staffs hospital scandal, David Cameron called for a new style of leadership from nurses. Now a new development programme has been launched Last month David Cameron called for a "new style" of nurse leadership in order to banish poor practice from hospital wards and prevent a repeat of the Mid Staffordshire hospital scandal . Within weeks of his comments, made to MPs on the day the Francis report into the scandal was published, a new leadership development programme for nurses was launched. The programme, delivered by the NHS Leadership Academy , is made up of two groups...

We must acknowledge that our beloved NHS is lacking the basic humanity of care that we had come to expect At last it has arrived. Robert Francis QC's long-awaited report has been published , passing excoriating criticism of almost all of the main institutions that make up the management, organisation and regulation of the NHS, and how their collective failure prolonged the suffering of hundreds of patients attending Mid Staffordshire NHS foundation trust and their families. For those in the upper echelons of the NHS, the temptation may be to defend the service's record, point out how the...

Lynne Wigens is the new director of nursing and quality, infection prevention and control for the Ipswich hospital NHS trust. She explains how she will be approaching the role Describe your role in one sentence Making sure that the nursing care is of an excellent standard, and that all patients receive high quality clinical care. Why did you want to work in healthcare? I wanted to work where I had a real commitment to improving health and delivering service to others, and my first job as a pharmacy technician in an acute hospital showed me the importance of all roles in health services. How do...