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The article shares a readers' insight on the difference that the ten commitments in the chief nursing officer for England's Leading Change, Adding Value framework could make to nursing care. One respondent suggests the framework's potential to shape policies and ensure workforce training. A second respondent points out the lack of funding to help carry out the ten commitments, while another stresses the need to address poor staffing levels.

Although it's always been obvious that there has to be a link between nurse staffing levels and quality of patient care, it wasn't until the 1990s that research led by Linda Aiken in the United States (Aiken et al 1994) began to produce evidence of the nature of this relationship. I led the first study in England to establish whether or not similar links would be apparent in NHS hospitals, and its findings were reported in 2007 in the paper that underpins this article. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article focuses on discussion papers published before the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) which revealed that nursing associates could pay the same fee as nurses and midwives to join the NMC register. Topics discussed include amount that nursing associates could pay a year to register, two options set out by papers published before an NMC council meeting on November 29, 2017, and remarks from Royal College of Nursing (RCN) Deputy Director of Nursing Stephanie Aiken.

The article provides information related to smoking cessation in Great Britain. It reveals that the country has nearly ten million smokers and smoking remains the main cause of preventable illness and premature death. It also provides details on the study which suggests that 11 million smokers were admitted to the hospital and the move of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence to publish a paper advocating the routine and systematic delivery of cessation support to smokers.