Incontinence
(asked on 16th November 2016) - View Source
Question to the Department of Health and Social Care:
To ask the Secretary of State for Health, whether continence care training has become a mandatory part of the curriculum for nurses since publication of the Francis Report.
The Department is not aware that continence care training has become a mandatory part of the nurse training curriculum post Sir Robert Francis’s Public Inquiry report into the failings at Mid Staffs.
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) sets the standards of education, training, conduct and performance for nurses in the United Kingdom. The NMC has committed to delivering a programme of change for education between 2016 and 2020 to modernise education standards and ensure that nurses and midwives are equipped with the skills and knowledge they need to practise now and in the future.
Effective from 31 March 2015 the Code for Nurses and Midwives presents the professional standards that nurses and midwives must uphold in order to be registered to practise in the UK:
https://www.nmc.org.uk/standards/code/
For all health professionals, NHS England’s Excellence in Continence Care guidance, published in November 2015, provides a framework that enables commissioners to work in collaboration with providers and others to make a step change to address shortfalls so that safe, dignified, efficient and effective continence care is consistently provided. This guidance is aimed at commissioners, providers, health and social care staff and also provides information for the public. The guidance was produced in partnership with patient and public advocates, clinicians and partners from the third sector. A copy of the guidance can be found at the following link: