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Commissioning: the community nurse’s role

29 July 1998

Nursing Standard

Primary health care

The White Paper The New NHS (DoH 1997) proposes that community nurses will play a lead role in commissioning health care. Implementation of the proposals will result...

Pen pals

01 December 2008

Learning Disability Practice

Student life

As nursing students we are often asked to write about our interventions and their effectiveness in another’s life. This article explores the learning process that I,...

menu planning in community-based learning disability inpatient units

01 June 2005

Learning Disability Practice

A&S Science

The services provided for people with learning disability have changed considerably in the last 20 years with the shift from large long-stay institutions to care in...

Nurse staffing requirements

01 July 2006

Nursing Management

Applied leadership

EVERY HEALTH SERVICE workforce planner, human resources team member, and health service leader faces the challenge of ensuring appropriate staffing.

Reducing the deployment of agency nurses

01 July 2006

Nursing Management

Applied leadership

BANK AND AGENCY nurses were introduced into UK nursing in the mid 1970s to temporarily fill nursing posts that could not be filled by established staff.

Improving health care through Payment by Results

23 May 2007

Nursing Standard

Art & Science

Nursing faces new opportunities and challenges as part of the government’s initiative to introduce Payment by Results. These opportunities arise from increasing...

Direct payments: a real choice for patients?

01 March 2009

Primary Health Care

Patient choice

There have been some big changes in the nursing profession over the past ten years, with the creation of nurse consultants and the advent of prescribing among the...