In 1998, the Secretary of State approved nine PMS pilots to offer 'nurse-led' primary care. They were designed to maximise the use of nursing skills and to allow nurses to exercise leadership within the primary health care team. This report describes the experiences of the nine nurse leads as they ...
Nine NHS walk-in centre pilot sites opened in London during 2000. Six of the nine centres are located in hospital sites. The other three centres are in Soho in central London, the High Street in Croydon, and Parsons Green in Fulham. NHS walk-in centres are nurse-led and offer primary care ...
In recent years, NHS boards have often been preoccupied with financial performance, but they also have to engage with the quality of clinical care. A programme of work developed by The King's Fund, in partnership with the Burdett Trust for Nursing, has focused on the role of nurse executives in ...
New Health Network exists to encourage the NHS to fulfil its potential by stimulating an environment of innovation and change in the NHS for the benefit of patients. Its aim in publishing this book is to stimulate debate and provide a space for thinking that will be necessary to achieve ...
This is the fifth in a series of publications based on the work of the King's Fund Nursing Development Units (NDUs). In it, nurses, midwives and health visitors relate their experiences of ethical difficulty in their everyday practice. These stories, recounted in their own words, are offered as material for ...
This report has been written for practitioners who would like to consider how marketing, particularly in the context of the purchaser-provider system, might be relevant to their work. It seeks to clarify some of the issues around marketing and purchasing in a way that will be helpful to practitioners, and ...
This booklet sets out to examine the concept of empowerment; to look at how it is demonstrated through the changing roles within the Nursing Development Unit (NDUs); and to think about the effect it has on the patient. This series looks at some ways nurses in NDUs have tried to ...
This report was prompted by the current debate on how best to determine nurses pay in the NHS. Increased emphasis on cost, devolution of managerial responsibility, and the establishment of NHS Trusts are key elements of the NHS reforms, and will have a major impact on the way nurses pay ...
This report examines the kind of work facilitators do, their achievements and the factors that help or hinder progress in a rapidly changing world. Three different models are described - Oxford, Best Friend and Camberwell.
Following approaches by many people concerned about racial inequality in the nursing profession, this paper documents some of the issues which concern the Task Force. It reaches the conclusion that the service which black and ethnic minority nurses have been under-valued and their talent has been squandered. The paper includes ...