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District nursing and the National Health Service reforms:
Author(s) -
Goodman C.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
journal of nursing management
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.925
H-Index - 76
eISSN - 1365-2834
pISSN - 0966-0429
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2834.1996.02163.x
Subject(s) - nursing , nursing management , service (business) , medicine , nursing research , business , marketing
The challenges to the district nurse's role within the purchaser/provider culture of the National Health Service (NHS) are discussed. The inherent problems of describing community working and the seeming invisibility of what district nurses do is placed in the context of GP fundholding, contracting and commissioning. The paper concludes that district nursing's history of not being involved in policy development and change may lead to it losing aspects of patient care that it is well placed and qualified to deliver.