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22-Jul-08
Eighty per cent of healthcare assistants are calling for regulation of their role to enable standards to be set and patient care outcomes improved.
45 per cent were poorly or very poorly valued, according to UNISON’s largest ever survey of healthcare assistants, which was published today.
Almost half of healthcare assistants are willing and keen to take up nurse training, with that figure rising to 70 per cent for younger healthcare assistants.
Unison believes that the review of nurse training by the Nursing and Midwifery Council may cut off access to training for healthcare assistants.
UNISON is today holding a conference of more than 250 healthcare workers in London.
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veronica mc keown
22/07/2008
Entry qualifications must remain the same to ensure standards of numeracy and literacy are high. Mature students and younger potential nurses must achieve necessary entry qualifications to maintain this.
Gizelle van der Merwe
06/08/2008
What would be the possibilty to assist with better training for quality health care assistants and to and to train them in a one year foundation course before their entry for nursing studies? I believe the training of health care assistants in the UK is not adequate and needs more practical training with practical facilitating and modules for Literacy and numeracy that can be offered within the curriculum of the health care assistants curriculum. The best quality potential nurses can be identified after basic nursing have been done for at least 12 months full time and ongoing facilitating is offered in the hospitals and nursing homes.
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