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Nurses believe that the specialty review groups which followed Tomlinson's inquiry into London hospitals need to focus on quality as a priority. The reviews proposed several specialty mergers resulting in fewer, but bigger and better-equipped, hospitals linked to smaller district units, in turn attached to GP services, with staff expected to commute as required between the different units. Health-care staff believe that all units must employ enough qualified nurses and should also appoint and increase the number of liaison and advisory nurses who link the activities of the centres and satellite units.
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Owners of nursing homes claim that the government's new community care policies are biased against nursing homes, and that this threatens residents and also nursing jobs. The policies took effect on April 01, 1993, and owners of nursing homes say that since then social services have not been referring the elderly to the nursing homes. Inform, the RCN forum of independent nurse managers, says that people's choice is being limited by social services, who either put people in the cheapest nursing home, or put them into residential homes instead, which are cheaper but cannot offer skilled nursing care.
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It is becoming more widely recognized in the UK that there are specific difficulties associated with moving and handling patients in the home. Community nurses often work alone, and may have to lift a patient in an emergency without having time to consider the potential consequences. Some National Health Service trusts are seeking to address this situation by running schemes which allow certain employees to gain the skills to train others to move and handle patients correctly. It is vital that professionals visiting patients in the home devise a care plan.
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