#FlorenceNightingale wrote in 1878 “keep no patient in hospital a day longer than is absolutely necessary. The patient may have to recover not only from illness or injury but from hospital” She developed @TheQNI now the oldest nursing charity in the world. https://t.co/qaYCTPqbLI
And please don’t come to work either! It is possible to have contracted and be passing on flu and not feel at deaths door, it is a complete myth that if you have flu you will always know
Instead of blaming community health services for the Aand E performance - how about a national ‘thank you’ for community nurses who are out and about battling things like this every day 356 days a year? 👏👏 @TheQNI@AgeingWellNHS @CNOEngland @CrystalOldman@HilaryGarratt
District nurses save the NHS millions by treating patients in their own homes and helping to keep them out of hospital. But their numbers have nearly halved in 10 years and the profession is under threat. https://t.co/KV3FHXppch
‘We cannot stand by while a child born in the wealthiest parts of our country can expect nearly two decades longer of healthy life than a child born in the most deprived parts. We need to see action to solve poverty,’ @jrf_uk's @Helen_Barnard in @MetroUK https://t.co/1SkXLYT7AE
#IntegratedCare is about practices and teams working together across boundaries and sharing information more effectively to provide care for their patients
Why do we - especially in the community- have to constantly prove our worth. Why aren’t we valued for the critical care we provide in the community? #qni2019
#CommunityNurses bridge the gap between primary and acute healthcare - says @Jochurchill4 MP, Undersecretary of State for health in her first Ministerial speech at #QNI2019 conference.