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Monitoring elder abuse in the NHS

Monitoring elder abuse in the NHS J-333-04-06WWOP10.2Juneinsides 25/5/06 11:20 am Page 29 Feature Liz McAnulty Nursing and Midwifery Council have done a great deal to draw attention to this Monitoring issue. Abuse takes place in many different settings and takes many forms. The focus of this article is on those cases of abuse elder abuse that involve practitioners who are registered with the NMC and whose cases are dealt with by the Council’s Fitness to Practise panels. It is in the NHS important to acknowledge that whilst The fact that nursing is essentially a caring the NMC takes these cases very seriously, it is profession makes it hard to understand why arguably a case of too little too late: too little each year a number of nurses are found guilty because it is acknowledged that not all cases of by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) of abuse by registered nurses are identified and abusing older people. In this article Liz referred to the NMC, and too late because the McAnulty reports on what the NMC is doing to damage has already been done. Whilst the NMC enhance nursing and midwifery skills to help will continue to take action against those who reduce the number http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Working with Older People Emerald Publishing

Monitoring elder abuse in the NHS

McAnulty, Liz
Working with Older People , Volume 10 (2): 3 – Jun 1, 2006
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J-333-04-06WWOP10.2Juneinsides 25/5/06 11:20 am Page 29 Feature Liz McAnulty Nursing and Midwifery Council have done a great deal to draw attention to this Monitoring issue. Abuse takes place in many different settings and takes many forms. The focus of this article is on those cases of abuse elder abuse that involve practitioners who are registered with the NMC and whose cases are dealt with by the Council’s Fitness to Practise panels. It is in the NHS important to acknowledge that whilst The fact that nursing is essentially a caring the NMC takes these cases very seriously, it is profession makes it hard to understand why arguably a case of too little too late: too little each year a number of nurses are found guilty because it is acknowledged that not all cases of by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) of abuse by registered nurses are identified and abusing older people. In this article Liz referred to the NMC, and too late because the McAnulty reports on what the NMC is doing to damage has already been done. Whilst the NMC enhance nursing and midwifery skills to help will continue to take action against those who reduce the number

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Working with Older People – Emerald Publishing

Published: Jun 1, 2006

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