Community nursing

Pillars of the community: the RCN’s policy position on the development of community nursing

The RCN has developed a set of core policy statements for strong, successful, patient-focused community nursing which enable the College to represent the interests of its members and patients whenever community healthcare services are being reformed.

Entitled Pillars of the community: the RCN’s UK position on the development of the registered nursing workforce in the community, the vision sets out the core conditions that the RCN believes must be satisfied for community services to thrive as care is increasingly delivered closer to home and health services work to become more efficient at a time of significant financial challenge.

The core conditions are grouped under the following eight key headings:

Shaped by the RCN’s Future Nurse Future Workforce Group and endorsed by RCN Council in July 2010, the vision recognises the value of community nursing in the delivery of the right care to patients, in the right place and at the right time.

It is intended to give the RCN and its members a solid platform from which to lobby and influence healthcare employers, providers, commissioners, policy makers and politicians, and to champion the climate that is needed to deliver effective community nursing and patient care.

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