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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) educational standards require nursing associates to both understand how to escalate concerns to other appropriate healthcare professionals for expert help and how to recognise when a person’s health has deteriorated and escalate as needed (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2018a).

This chapter will develop understanding of both of these by introducing different methods for escalating concerns about patients, discussing how to escalate effectively and describing the pitfalls in communication so that these can be avoided. The NMC Code (Nursing & Midwifery Council 2018b) also contains requirements with regards to deteriorating patients and escalation. The nursing associate is required to maintain effective communication with colleagues, to make a timely referral to another practitioner when any action, care or treatment is required and to arrange, wherever possible, for emergency care to be accessed and provided promptly.