CouncilAgenda Item: 10.30
20 March 2010
Media Evaluation
November 2009 to February 2010
UK – media activity
Date / Topic /Media
/ Interviewee/background brief02/11/09 / Letter calling for legalization of prostitution / The Independent / RCN referenced
04/11/09 / NHS Neonatal Toolkit launched / The Independent / RCN referenced
04/11/09 / NHS Employers warns Trusts not to cut staffing levels / The Guardian / Dr Peter Carter, Chief Executive
12/11/09 / RCN to investigate targets / BBC News Online; Daily Telegraph;, Daily Mail; The Times / Dr Peter Carter, and RCN references
12/11/09-13/11/09 / Nursing to become all graduate profession from 2013 / BBC News Online; The Times; Daily Telegraph; The Guardian; The Independent; Daily Mail; Daily Star;BBC News Channel;Sky News Radio;BBC Local Radio;Press Association (video); Daily Express / Dr Peter Carter, Gill Robertson, Service Development Manager
13/11/09 / Letter by June Clark on DH nursing degree announcement / The Times / June Clark, RCN member
14/11/09 / Margaret Haywood interview / The Guardian / RCN referenced
15/11/09 / Minette Martin column on nursing degree move / The Times / RCN referenced
16/11/09 / Letter in response to the nursing degree move / Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
17/11/09 / Comment on Alzheimer’s Society report / The Times; Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
17/11/09 / Comment on NHS violence on staff figures / Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
18/11/09 / Comment on nursing student drop-out rate figures / The Times / Dr Peter Carter
19/11/09 / NHS Information Centre figures on 4 hour target / The Times / RCN referenced
22/11/09 / Comment on HCAs / News of the World / Howard Catton, Head of Policy
24/11/09 / Boorman review / Daily Express / Dr Peter Carter
27/11/09 / CQC Basildon report / ITV News / Dr Peter Carter
29/11/09-30/11/09 / Reports reveal hospitals with poor patient care / Sky News; Daily Mail / Dr Peter Carter
30/11/09 / Ed Balls proposes Royal College of Social Work / The Guardian; BBC News Online; Daily Express; Daily Mirror / RCN referenced
05/12/09 / Head of CQC to step down / BBC News Online / Dr Peter Carter
09/12/09 / Comment on pre budget report / BBC News Online; BBC News Channel / Dr Peter Carter
10/12/09 / Comment on detention of children in immigration centres / The Guardian / Dr Peter Carter
10/12/09 / Nursing careers article / Daily Mail / Cathy Taylor, Careers Adviser
05/01/01 / Conservative Party 20 health policies / Daily Telegraph; The Sun / Dr Peter Carter
08/01/10 / Report condemns government response to binge drinking / The Guardian / Dr Peter Carter
08/01/10 / Hidden persuaders will hit children's health / The Guardian / RCN referenced
11/01/01 / Independent Safeguarding Authority / The Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
14/01/10 / A report by the National Audit Office on dementia still not being seen as a priority / The Daily Mail / Janet Davies, Director of Nursing & Service Delivery
14/01/10 / Peter Carter’s visit to Afghanistan / The Evening Standard / Dr Peter Carter
15/01/10 / Nursing and Midwifery Council commission research into the regulation of Health Care Assistants / The Daily Telegraph / Janet Davies
18/01/10 / Increase in nurses claiming benefits / Sunday Mirror / Josie Irwin, Head of Employment Relations
18/01/10 / Banning smoking in cars when children are present / The Observer / Dr Peter Carter
20/01/10 / Drunken violence has created “no go areas” throughout the country / The Daily Telegraph / RCN referenced
05/02/10 / National Audit Office report on trauma care / The Independent / Dr Peter Carter
06/02/10 / Inquiry into Stafford Hospital / The Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
08/2/10 / Government announcement that cancer patients should have specialist care from nurses in their own home / The Daily Telegraph / Dr Peter Carter
11/02/10 / Dr Marmot review on health inequalities / The Times / Dr Peter Carter
16/02/10 / Alcohol labelling / The Guardian / Tom Sandford, Director, RCN England
21/02/10 / Nursing Standard survey on nursing students dropping out of their courses / Sunday Mirror / Dr Peter Carter
23/02/10 / Alzheimer’s Society launch dementia leaflet with support from the RCN / Daily Mail / RCN referenced
24/02/10 / RCN campaign on specialist nurses / The Times / Dr Peter Carter
Westminster – parliamentary and political activity
Date / Topic / RCN representation02/11/09 / Meeting with Laura Moffatt MP and Dr Richard Taylor MP in regard to the Independent Safeguarding Authority / Laurence Meehan, Senior Parliamentary Officer
03/11/09 / Meeting with Laura Moffatt MP in regard to the Independent Safeguarding Authority / Laurence Meehan
04/11/09 / Launch of BLISS 30th Birthday Report / Laurence Meehan
17/11/09 / Meeting with Sanofi Aventis and Insight Public Affairs to discuss Veno venous thromboembolismscreening / Will Hardy, Parliamentary Officer
26/11/09 / Sandra Gidley MP attended Political Leadership Program / Laurence Meehan
14/12/09 / Prepared and submitted Parliamentary briefing on the Personal Care at Home Bill, Second Reading Stage / Mary Hough, Parliamentary Officer
16/12/09 / Met with Isobel Larkin, Parliamentary Officer, TUC, in regard to the Equality Bill / Laurence Meehan, Will Hardy
05/01/09 / Prepared and submitted Parliamentary briefing in advance of the Westminster Hall debate on the Independent Safeguarding Authority / Will Hardy
05/01/10 / Attended Westminster Hall Debate on the Independent Safeguarding Authority / Will Hardy
05/01/10 / Meeting between Secretary of State, Andy Burnham and Dr Peter Carter / Dr Peter Carter, Will Hardy
11/01/10 / Prepared and distributed Parliamentary Briefing on the Equality Bill Committee Stage / Will Hardy
11/01/10 / Prepared and submitted Parliamentary Briefing on Committee Stage and 3rd Reading of the Personal Care at Home Bill / Mary Hough
12/01/10 / Meeting with Stephen Ladyman MP re the Personal Care at Home Bill / Stuart Abrahams, Policy Adviser, Mary Hough
15/01/10 / Prepared and distributed House of Lords briefing in advance of short question for debate on nurse training / Will Hardy
19/01/10 / RCN Wales Parliamentary Reception / Mary Hough
21/01/10 / Meeting with Shadow Minister of State, Stephen O’Brien / Dr Peter Carter, Mary Hough
21/01/10 / No10 Downing Street Reception for Nursing Standard, Mary Seacole and Nursing Times winners, Prime Minister attended / Dr Peter Carter, Maura Buchanan, President, Rachel Dufton, Public Affairs Manager, Will Hardy, Linda Thomas, Nursing Standard Editor
21/01/10 / Stakeholder Dinner / Communications staff, Executive Team and Members of Council
25/01/10 / Meeting with Chloe Smith MP re Social Care / Mary Hough, Alex
Callaghan
28/01/10 / Prepared and distributed Personal Care at Home Bill House of Lords Second Reading / Mary Hough
01/02/10 / Attended Demos Future of Health and Wellbeing debate with Andy Burnham / Will Hardy
02/02/09 / Attended Cancer Research UK Parliamentary event / Mary Hough
09/09/10 / Attended Kings Fund debate with Norman Lamb: NHS at the heart of the general election / Laurence Meehan, Will Hardy, Mary Hough
22/02/10 / Attended Kings Fund debate with Nick Clegg MP / Rachel Dufton, Laurence Meehan, Will Hardy
24/02/09 / Mike Penning MP attends Smoking Control Network meeting at RCN HQ / Will Hardy
England regions – media activity
Date / Topic /Media
/ Interviewee/background briefEast Midlands
03/11/09 / Call for action to tackle physical and verbal abuse of hospital staff / Derby Evening Telegraph / Michael Hayworth, RCN member
10/11/09 / New nurses’ uniform policy at NUH / BBC Radio Nottingham / Cliff Edwards, Operational Manager
12/11/09 / Degree-only entry to nursing from 2013 / BBC Radio Derby; BBC Radio Northamptonshire / Dr Sheila Marriott, Director, East Midlands Region; Gill Robertson
22/01/10 / RCN-sponsored award for Derby University graduate / Derby Evening Telegraph / RCN referenced
26/01/10 / Staffing shortage leaves patient allegedly at risk / BBC Radio Nottingham / Tim Baggs, Communications Officer
29/01/10 / RCN student bus to visit Lincoln / Lincolnshire Echo / Phil Schneider, ANS Exec Committee member
01/02/10 / RCN intervenes over lack of staff consultation on community service changes / Derby Evening Telegraph / Dr Sheila Marriott
02/02/10 / RCN student bus to visit Nottingham / Nottingham Evening Post / Phil Schneider
03/02/10 / Peter Carter praises Notts hospital / Nottingham Evening Post / Dr Peter Carter
17/02/10 / RCN backs specialist nurse appointment at Leicester Hospitals / Leicester Mercury / Dr Sheila Marriott
Eastern
12/11/09 / All nurses to be educated to degree level / BBC Radio Suffolk / John Wilkinson, RCN Officer
12/11/09 / Local nurses win Nursing Standard Awards / Luton and Herald Gazette / Karen Webb, Director, Eastern Region
16/11/09 / Nursing Standard Awards / Biggleswade Today / Karen Webb
24/11/09 / RCN secure massive pay deal for West Herts nurses / Nursing Times / John Wilkinson
27/11/09 / RCN Alumni awarded Doctorate / Buntingford and Royston Mercury / RCN referenced
27/11/09 / Student Bus visits University Campus Suffolk / Evening Star / Marilyn Martin, RCN Officer
28/11/09 / New Education Standards for Nurses / East Anglian Daily Times / Dr Peter Carter
30/11/09 / West Herts Nurses set for pack back deal / Watford Observer / John Wilkinson
30/11/09 / RCN Student Bus visits UEA / Norwich evening news / Adrian Ing, RCN Officer
30/11/09 / Team effort to keep wards clean – response to damning reports on state of Basildon and Thurrock Hospital / Southend Echo and Essex Echo / Karen Webb
2/12/09 / Low staff morale at Basildon and Thurrock in wake of criticism for poor standards of care / Nursing Standard / Mike Kavanagh, RCN Officer
17/12/09 / Dignity Award: Local Chef wins award and speaks at RCN conference / Luton And Herald Gazette / RCN referenced
14/01/10 / RCN expresses concern over plans to cut number of Colchester Senior District Nurses / East Anglian Daily Times (Essex); East Anglian Daily Times (Colchester);Colchester Evening Gazette / Marilyn Martin
01/02/10 / RCN comment on plans to change contractors for Out of ours Care in Cambridgeshire / BBC Radio Cambridgeshire / Tony Durcan, RCN Officer
05/02/10 / Student Bus visits PIC Site in Colchester / Colchester Evening Gazette / Marilyn Martin
13/02/10 / RCN comments on Norfolk and Norwich use of treatment rooms and stock cupboards to treat patients / Norwich Evening News / Adrian Ing
16/02/10 / More anger over lack of Dignity at N&N / Eastern Daily Press / Adrian Ing
17/02/10 / RCN Support for Norwich Evening News “End the Indignity Campaign” based on RCN Dignity materials / Norwich Evening News / Adrian Ing
18/02/10 / RCN response to NN Apology on use of treatment rooms / Norwich Evening News; Eastern Daily Press / Adrian Ing
23/02/10 / RCN response to announcement that five independent sector bidders have put forward submissions to help run Hinchingbrooke / BBC Radio Cambridgeshire / Karen Webb
24/02/10 / Specialist Nurses could save millions / Eastern Daily Press / National Release
London
20/11/09 / Jason Towner presented with RCN student fellow award / Greenford & Northolt Gazette / RCN referenced
North West
30/11/09 / Dr Foster’s Guide / BBC Radio Merseyside – Merseyside tonight / David Wilkinson, RCN member
11/12/09 / Cancer campaign / Liverpool Echo / RCN referenced
15/12/09 / Health bosses wary over TB / Wigan Evening Post / RCN referenced
16/12/09 / Student nurses lead the way / Chester Evening Leader / Professor Betty Kershaw, Education adviser
12/01/09 / Blackpool nurse short listed for award / Blackpool Gazette / Dr Fiona Duncan, RCN member
17/02/10 / On the ward in Afghanistan / Lancashire Evening Post / Chris Ellis, RCN member
Northern
23/10/09 / Moves to link NHS trusts opposed / Northern Echo / Jake Turnbull, Communications Officer
26/10/09 / Nursing staffing shortages / Newcastle Evening Chronicle / RCN referenced
02/11/09 / RCN Nursing Update / Newcastle Evening Chronicle / Glenn Turp, Director, Northern Region
30/11/09 / Swine flu vaccination / Newcastle Evening Chronicle / Glenn Turp
01/12/09 / Reduction in services and loss of NHS jobs feared / Northern Echo / Glenn Turp
04/12/09 / Decision will see health care services up for grabs / Darlington and Stockton Times / Glenn Turp
02/12/09 -08/12/09 / Investing in the future / Nursing Standard / Saffron Brown, Council Member
15/12/09 / Rise in alcohol-related hospital admissions / BBC Tees / Jake Turnbull
16/12/09 / Concerns over drinking culture / Northern Echo / RCN referenced
16/12/09 / Whitehaven nurse appointed national nursing champion / Cumberland News / Ella Cullen, RCN member
19/12/09 / North East tops booze illness league / Sunderland Echo / RCN referenced
21/12/09 / Centre to help tackle alcohol abuse / Shields Gazette / Glenn Turp
23/12/09 / Unique honour for Ella / Whitehaven News / Ella Cullen
21/01/10 / Nursing president visits region / Northern Echo / Maura Buchanan, President
27/01/10 / Nurse wins High Court battle / Northern Echo / RCN referenced
South East
01/11/09 / Royal Berkshire’s need to recruit 100 overseas nurses / BBC South Today / Lindsay Meeks, RCN Officer
12/01/10 / Guernsey branch meeting / This is Guernsey / Bev Clarke, RCN member
22/01/10 / Newbury admin staff opening the office in adverse weather conditions / Newbury News / Patricia Marquis, Director, South East Region
19/01/10 / Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Mental Health Trust’s decision to end their security contract / BBC Radio Oxford / Julian Hill, RCN Officer
19/01/10 – 20/01/10 / Pressure sore management / BBC Radio Kent; BBC South East News / Sarah Dodsworth, Operations Manager
23/01/10 / Guernsey cuts and efficiency savings / BBC News online / RCN referenced
23/02/10 / Student attrition rates in Kent / BBC Radio Kent / Sarah Dodsworth
South West
11/11/09 / Ophthalmic Award / Western Gazette / RCN referenced
12/11/09 – 13/11/09 / Degree entry / BBC Radio Devon Live; BBC Radio Somerset; BBC Radio Bristol; BBC Radio Cornwall; BBC Radio Wiltshire / Kate Tompkins, Director, South West Region, Jane Bovey, Council Member,Sarah Zanoni, Head of Operations and Service Development
18/11/09 / Violence against staff / Pirate FM (Cornwall) / Sarah Zanoni
17/12/09 – 22/12/09 / Dorset County Hospital / Devon 24 on line; Solent Radio; BBC Spotlight; Dorset Echo / Kathy Ibbotson, RCN Officer
27/12/09 / Good to read care funding reinstatement / Express and Echo – Exeter / RCN referenced
06/02/10 – 10/02/10 / RCN Bus / Plymouth Herald; BBC Radio Devon / Gill Robertson, RCN Student Adviser, and RCNreference
13/02/10 / U-turn on redundancies Dorset county hospital / Dorset Echo / Lyn Batson, Assistant RCN Officer
17/02/10 / Staff Morale at Dorset County Hospital / Western Gazette / RCN referenced
West Midlands
09/11/09 / Stress-related absence at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire / Coventry Telegraph; Nuneaton Telegraph / Tim Baggs
12/11/09 / Degree-only entry to nursing from 2013 / BBC Radio Coventry and Warwickshire; BBC Radio Shropshire; BBC Radio WM; BBC Radio Stoke; Shropshire Star / Gill Robertson, Dr Peter Carter, and RCN references
26/11/09 / RCN supports care home provider staff training / Shropshire Star / RCN referenced
07/01/10 / Tracey Budding elected chair of MRC / Birmingham Mail / Tracey Budding, Council Member
07/01/10 / RCN gives evidence to Stafford Hospital inquiry / Staffordshire Newsletter / RCN referenced
13/01/10 / RCN nursing bus to visit Stafford / West Midlands Express and Star / RCN referenced
17/01/10 / North Staffs A&E misused by locals as a GP surgery / The Sentinel (Stoke) / Chris Bourne, RCN member
23/01/10 / RCN nursing bus to visit Coventry University / Coventry Telegraph; Nuneaton Telegraph / RCN referenced
23/01/10 / Professor Rod Thomson appointed Director of Public Health for Shropshire PCT / Shropshire Star / Rod Thomson, RCN member
15/02/10 / Free training day for HCAs in Shropshire / Shropshire Star / RCN referenced
Yorkshire and the Humber
12/11/09 / Is it safer to be treated by a nurse with a degree / BBC Radio Humberside / John Baston, Operational Manager
13/11/09 / All nurses to have a degree for 2013 / Yorkshire Post / Dr Peter Carter
16/11/09 / Outcry over patient care / Yorkshire Evening Post / Janine Dyson, RCN Officer
18/11/09 / How are health workers portrayed on TV / BBC Radio Humberside / Kevin Austerberry, Director, Yorkshire & The Humber Region
1/12/09 / Awards success / Yorkshire Evening Post / Joanne Mangall, RCN member
7/12/09 / You’re a star awards / Telegraph & Argus, Bradford / RCN referenced
10/12/09 / Visit to nurses in Afghanistan / Telegraph & Argus, Bradford / Dr Peter Carter
15/12/09 / Cancer campaign / East Riding Advertiser / RCN referenced
30/12/09 / Is this anyway to treat our elderly / Yorkshire Evening Post / RCN referenced
01/01/10 / Review of the year – RCN Congress / Knaresborough Post / RCN referenced
07/01/10 / District nurses keep working despite snowy weather / BBC Look North – evening news / Helen Alderman, RCN member
07/01/10 / Mental health unit is first in country to win excellence award / Telegraph & Argus, Bradford / Dr Peter Carter
13/01/10 / Minimum price urged to combat alcohol abuse / Yorkshire Post / RCN referenced
15/01/10 / Nurses praised / Telegraph & Argus, Bradford / RCN referenced
England regions – parliamentary and political activity
Date / Topic / RCN representationEast Midlands
16/11/09 / Letter of invitation to Margaret Beckett, Derby South MP, to speak at the East Midlands RCN activists’ conference in Derby / Cliff Edwards
11/12/09 / Talk by Margaret Beckett, Derby South MP, to the East Midlands RCN activists’ conference in Derby
22/02/10 / Letters of invitation to various MPs to participate in proposed hustings event hosted by Leicestershire branch on 12 April 2010 / Tim Baggs
Eastern
16/11/09 / Letters to Chris Mole, Labour MP for Ipswich and Rt Hon Charles Clarke, Labour MP for Norwich South inviting them to visit to the Student Bus at University Campus Suffolk and UEA respectively / Karen Webb, Lynn Ladbrook, Communications Officer
01/12/10 / Met with Stephen Robinson, Lib Dem PPC for Chelmsford, to discuss RCN election manifesto and other local issues / Trevor Allen, RCN member, Lynn Ladbrook
03/12/09 / Letter to John Wittingdale MP, Conservative MP for Maldon and East Chelmsford re Mid Essex Exec Director of Nursing / Karen Webb
12/09 / Met with Grant Schapps, Conservative MP for Welyn Hatfield to discuss RCN Manifesto / Anne Wells, Council Member
12/12/09 / Met with Bob Russell, Lib Dem MP for Colchester to discuss the RCN Manifesto, recent CQC and Monitor activity and other local issues / Karen Webb, Lynn Ladbrook
01/10 / Met with Laura Moffat, Labour MP for Crawley and Baroness Cumberlege to discuss range of issues / Anne Wells
01-02/10 / Meetings held with Sharon Taylor, Labour PPC and Stephen McPartland Conservative, PPC to discuss range of issues relating to local constituency and RCN / Anne Wells
01-02/10 / Meetings held withJonathan Salt, Independent PPC for Huntingdon who is supportive of the RCN’s Manifesto pledges and is campaigning significantly on Hinchingbroooke / Karen Webb
27/01/10 / Met withRichard Fuller, Conservative PPC for Bedford to discuss the RCN Manifesto and draw attention tolocal implications / John Wilkinson, Lynn Ladbrook
01/0210 / Invitation to Dr Ian Gibson, former Labour MP for Norwich to speak at RCN Eastern Region Activism for the General Election Seminar / Lynn Ladbrook
2/02/10 / Invitation to Bernard Jenkin, Conservative MP for North Essex to visit Student Bus in Colchester / Karen Webb
16/02/10 / Discussions with Chloe Smith, Conservative MP for Norwich North re shadowing to take place on the 25th March 2010 / Adrian Ing
16/02/10 / Invitation to John Gummer, Conservative MP for Suffolk Coastal to speak at RCN Eastern Region Activism for the General Election Seminar / Karen Webb
London
14/12/09 / London Region Reception at the House of Commons attended by a number of London MPs / Maura Buchanan, Gerry Bolger, and Andrew McGovern, Council Members, Bernell Bussue, Director, London Region, Rachel Dufton, Laurence Meehan, Will Hardy, Mary Hough
Northern
01/12/09 / Correspondence with various MPs regarding the proposed cancellation of NHS provider contract between NHS County Durham and NHS Darlington / Glenn Turp
11/01/10 / Correspondence with Rt Hon Nick Brown MP inviting him to speak at a Political Leadership event in Newcastle Upon Tyne / Glenn Turp
South East
02/02/10 / Email to branches and reps advising of the Nursing Counts campaign and website
12/01/10 / Meeting with Stephen Ladyman MP (South Thanet) re the Personal Care at Home Bill / Stuart Abrahams, Mary Hough
16/02/10 / Contact with Greg Clark, MP for Tunbridge Wells about commissioning removed by West Kent PCT / Sue Huggins, RCN Officer
16/02/10 / Contact with Dr Howard Stoat, MP for Dartford about commissioning removed by West Kent PCT / Sue Huggins
South West
09/02/10 - 10/02/10 / Labour PPC, Mr Ian Bolton, and Plymouth Cllrs Sue McDonald and Mary Aspinal visited the RCN Bus / Tracey Roberts, Communications Officer Jeni Watts, RCN Officer
West Midlands
17/11/09 / Letter of invitation to Mike O’Brien, MP for North Warwickshire and Health Minister, to a proposed West Midlands nurse leaders’ networking event. Follow-up email sent on 07/01/10. Invitation declined / Tim Baggs
Yorkshire and the Humber
18/12/09 / Meeting with Hugh Bayley MP, City of York - RCN regional briefing & general election priorities / Kevin Austerberry, Alison Sayers, Board Member, Kevin Terry, Communications Officer
Northern Ireland – media activity