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The Defence Nursing Forum will be tailored to meet your informational and communication needs. An ongoing training scheme for volunteer community editors, recruited from the community has been established to update the website.
If you have information you would like to see on your community pages then send it to the community editorial team. Your editorial team will be able to decide where to put the information on the website. In this way, we hope to build up an excellent informational resource for community members.
Types of information you may wish to send are:
- News
- Events, conferences and meetings
- Opinion
- Feature articles
- Consultation documents
- Useful links
- Resource material (books, manuals, websites, etc)
- Anything else you feel may benefit members within your professional community.
Send all your information to the editor
It is helpful to have more than one editor for each community area so the time commitment required can be kept to a minimum. If you would like to become an editor for this community then please email the editor.
For further information please see your community help section.
Launch of Children’s and Young People’s outcomes strategy
Secretary of State Andrew Lansley launched the development on 26th January 2012
The ‘Children’s and Young People’s outcomes strategy’ will focus the health service on improving health results for children, including those needing primary, hospital and urgent care, and children with long-term conditions – and also transition to adult services, as well as services provided for parents to be and those who are the most vulnerable.
It will identify health issues that matter most to children and young people, and their families and how a modern NHS will meet their needs.
To inform the strategy, a group of independent experts from Local Government, the NHS and charities will hear views from children, parents, carers and wider families as well as health professionals.
We are keen to hear views and ideas from as many nurses, midwives, health visitors, students and support staff as possible. Tell us your views and ideas - http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/F68ZFGB
Community discussion area
Your Defence Nursing Forum discussion area is the place for you to interact with other community members and start a debate on any matter relevant to your community. It may be more beneficial to start a conversation on a subject area rather than emailing the editor with your opinion.
You are free to say what you want, but please adhere to our Acceptable Use Policy.
Your comments
Beneath many of the news, opinion and feature articles within your community, community members will soon be able to post a brief comment about the article. Again, please adhere to out Acceptable Use Policy.
Future community developments
This is just the beginning for your community. Future community enhancements are planned to open up more two-way communications channels between members and the RCN as an organisation. New developments will be advertised on the RCN website.