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Integrating services to improve patient care

09 June 2010

Emergency Nurse

Feature

Over the past few years there has been an increasing need to reconfigure emergency care service delivery so that patients can be seen and treated as quickly as...

No barriers to care

14 December 2010

Nursing Standard

Feature

The third in our series on the future of community services in England looks at how services are being integrated to improve outcomes. The final part will cover...

Open AccessSmoking cessation

27 September 2017

Primary Health Care

CPD

The health burden of smoking tobacco is well documented and it is known to kill more than half its users. Nurses have a pivotal role in promoting smoking cessation...

Infant nutrition: part one

01 December 1999

Paediatric Nursing

CPD

Aims and intended learning outcomes This article aims to enhance the practitioner’s knowledge of biological theory of infant nutrition and facilitate its integration...

Struggle for self-determination among service users in Norway

26 November 2014

Learning Disability Practice

Art & Science

By the end of 1991, institutional care for people with learning disabilities ended in Norway and former residents were relocated to their local communities. This...

Nurse practitioners changing health behaviours: one patient at a time

30 September 2015

Nursing Management

Art & Science

In 2005, legislation was enacted allowing nurse practitioners (NPs) to practise in British Columbia, Canada. Although substantial human and financial resources had...

Test and learn: Working towards integrated services

29 August 2014

Nursing Older People

Feature

By 2018 the government expects integrated health and social care to become the norm in England. From next April a £3.8 billion pooled budget called the Better Care...

Spirited approach

14 February 2006

Nursing Standard

Feature

The Centre for Spirituality, Health and Disability was established to help healthcare practitioners and others meet the spiritual needs of patients ► The centre was...

Nurses’ role in public health and integration of health and social care

27 September 2017

Primary Health Care

Evidence & practice

This article examines the findings of a Royal College of Nursing (RCN) survey, The Value and Contribution of Nursing to Public Health in the UK: Final report...