A help or a hindrance?
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A help or a hindrance?

Vic Tadd Senior Nurse I eacher (Mental Handicap), South East Wales Institute of Nursing and Midwifery Education
Reg Pyne Assistant Registrar, Standards and Ethics, UKCC

Vic Tadd and Reg Pyne debate the merits of the UKCC’s Code of Conduct: an irrelevance or a helping hand?

Does the UKCC's Code of Conduct have any relevance in the modern NHS Patients may be aware of the Citizen’s Charter but not many realise that they have the power to report nurses to their statutory body on the grounds of misconduct or incompetence.

Nursing Standard. 9, 32, 54-55. doi: 10.7748/ns.9.32.54.s46

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