We need joined-up care now
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We need joined-up care now

Crystal Oldman Chief executive, Queen’s Nursing Institute, London

Clarity on long-term funding plans for district nurse training programmes and working structure is a matter of urgency

The King’s Fund report, Reimagining Community Services: Making the Most of Our Assets, adds to the ever-growing body of evidence stressing the importance of community health service and reinforces Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) concerns that ‘the long-standing ambition to strengthen community services has not been realised’.

Primary Health Care. 28, 3, 18-18. doi: 10.7748/phc.28.3.18.s16

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