Resources

Further reading and resources

The Department of Health has published Transforming Community Services: enabling new patterns of provision (PDF, 731KB) to support PCTs in making decisions on the governance and organisational models of community services in their area.

Nurse entrepreneurs - turning initiative into independence (PDF, 678 KB) describes social enterprises and provides an RCN view on these organisations. This publication is for nurses who are considering establishing a social enterprise.

If you are interested in exercising the 'right to request' a social enterprise, you may wish to read the Department of Health document Social Enterprise Making a Difference: the Right to Request (PDF, 1.0MB). You may also be interested in reading an RCN briefing (Word, 29KB), which considers the implications of any potential conflict of interest in relation to your current contract of employment.