Final recommendations

The Willis Commission has now published its full report into the future of nursing education. View the full report here (1,105kb) View the executive summary here (PDF 708kb) View the executive summary here in Welsh (PDF 612kb) See the key findings from the report below. Patient centred care should be at the heart of all pre-registration nursing education and continuing professional development. There were no shortcomings found in nursing education that could be directly responsible for poor standards of care or a decline in care standards. Nurses and their organisations must stand up to be counted on the challenge of …

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News

Press release, published 25 April 2012 (PDF 91kb). ‘Lord Willis of Knaresborough to chair Education Commission’ RCN Congress open event on the Willis Commission, Harrogate, 16 May 2012 (PDF 39kb). Press release, published 9 August 2012 (PDF 56kb). ‘Graduate nurses are not a barrier to high quality care’.

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Evidence

The deadline for submitting evidence has now passed. Submitted evidence Written evidence submission summary (PDF 71kb) Oral evidence themes (PDF 247kb) Alison Cobb, Senior Policy and Campaigns Officer at MIND, the Mental Health charity; Donna Venetico, Learning Disabilities Nurse and Clinical Educator at the Children’s Trust; Amy Bowen, Director of Service Development at the MS Trust; and Vicki Matthews, Specialist Nurse Advisor for the MS Trust. 12 June 2012 (PDF 178kb). Dr Peter Nightingale, Consultant in anaesthesia and intensive care at South Manchester Wythenshawe Hospital. 12 June 2012 (PDF 98kb). Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive and General Secretary of the Royal College of …

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Willis Commission on Nursing Education biographies

Lord Willis of Knaresborough (Chair) After his retirement from the House of Commons in May 2010, Phil Willis was made Lord Willis of Knaresborough, and has been an active Member of the House of Lords ever since. He currently serves on the House of Lords Select Committee on Science and Technology and contributed to numerous debates on the Health and Social Care Act, where he focused largely on the absence of provision for medical research in the legislation. He lists ‘health’ as one of his key political interests. Phil Willis joined the Liberal Party in 1985 and was elected to …

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