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Briggs Report
The Briggs Report (1972) was the Report of the Committee on Nursing in the United Kingdom, which reviewed the role of Nursing, nurses and Midwife, midwives in hospitals and in community care. It made recommendations on Nurse education, education, training, and Nursing in the United Kingdom, professional regulation. Context The Secretary of State for Health and Social Care, Minister of Health set up a Committee on Senior Nursing Staff Structure in 1963, to bring standardisation of structure and pay for hospital nurses. The Committee, under Brian Salmon, issued a report in 1966 (now known as the Salmon Report), which recommended a hierarchy of nursing grades leading up to chief nursing officer. In March 1970, at a time of pay disputes and nurses' strikes, another larger committee was established by Richard Crossman, Secretary of State and head of the Department of Health and Social Security, with the remit:To review the role of the nurse and midwife in the hospital and community ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Briggs, Lord Briggs Of Westbourne
Michael Townley Featherstone Briggs, Lord Briggs of Westbourne, (born 23 December 1954) is a Justice of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom. He served earlier as a judge of the Court of Appeal of England and Wales. By Royal Warrant, he bears the courtesy title of Lord Briggs of Westbourne. Education He was educated at Charterhouse School and Magdalen College, Oxford. Legal career Michael Briggs was called to the bar at Lincoln's Inn in 1978 and was the Junior Counsel to Crown Chancery from 1990-94. He became a Queen's Counsel in 1994. He was made a Bencher of Lincoln's Inn in 2001, and was appointed Attorney General of the Duchy of Lancaster on 24 July of that year. He held the post until shortly after his appointment to the High Court. On 3 July 2006, he was appointed as a Justice of the High Court, receiving the customary knighthood and being assigned to the Chancery Division. From 2012 to 2013, Mr Justice Briggs was Vice-Chancellor of the County Palatine of Lancaster ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Margaret Auld
Margaret Gibson Auld Fellow of the Royal College of Nursing, FRCN Doctor of Science, DSc (11 July 1932 – 10 September 2010) was a Scottish nurse, Matron at Simpson Memorial Maternity Pavilion, Edinburgh and Chief Nursing Officer for Scotland from 1977 to 1988. Early life and education Auld was born in Cardiff on 11 July 1932 to Scottish parents, Eleanor Margaret Ingram and Alexander John Sutton Auld. She attended Cardiff High School, Cardiff High School for Girls and High School of Glasgow, Glasgow High School, going on to train as a nurse at Radcliffe Infirmary, Oxford, qualifying as a State registered nurse in 1953. She further qualified as a midwife in 1954. In 1962 she qualified with a teaching diploma in midwifery, and received her Certificate in Nursing Administration from the University of Edinburgh in 1966. In 1974 she received her MPhil from the University. Career In her early career Auld worked at Queen's Park Hospital (1953–54), Blackburn, as staff midwife at ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Nursing Education In The United Kingdom
Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain, or recover optimal health and quality of life. Nurses may be differentiated from other health care providers by their approach to patient care, training, and scope of practice. Nurses practice in many specialties with differing levels of prescription authority. Nurses comprise the largest component of most healthcare environments; but there is evidence of international shortages of qualified nurses. Many nurses provide care within the ordering scope of physicians, and this traditional role has shaped the public image of nurses as care providers. Nurse practitioners are nurses with a graduate degree in advanced practice nursing. They are however permitted by most jurisdictions to practice independently in a variety of settings. Since the postwar period, nurse education has undergone a process of diversification towards advanced and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1972 In The United Kingdom
Events from the year 1972 in the United Kingdom. Incumbents * Monarch – Elizabeth II * Prime Minister – Edward Heath (Conservative) * Parliament – 45th Events January * 4 January – Rose Heilbron becomes the first female judge to sit at the Old Bailey. * 9 January – The National Union of Mineworkers holds a strike ballot in which 58.8% vote in favour of industrial action. Coal miners begin a strike which will last for seven weeks, including picketing of Saltley coke depot in Birmingham. * 19 January – The government announces the lifting of all restrictions on broadcasting hours on television and radio. Daytime television hours will be extended in October. * 20 January – Unemployment exceeds the 1,000,000 mark for the first time since the 1930s, almost double the 582,000 who were unemployed when Edward Heath's Conservative government came to power less than two years ago. * 30 January – 'Bloody Sunday' in Northern Ireland: fourteen Catholics are killed when ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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