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Alison While

Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and Fellow of the QNI

Optimising medication

‘Community nurses can contribute to medication safety by helping to monitor high-risk medications and highlighting concerns regarding non-adherence to the relevant treatment guidelines.‘.

Reset for health creation

‘Demographic changes and the burgeoning population with long-term conditions necessitate that the neglect of health creation is addressed urgently to avert the inevitable consequences for both the...

Making care ‘personal’

‘The strategic priorities for community health services include improved crisis response and re-enablement care, providing ‘anticipatory care’, enhanced care in care homes and using digital...

Emergency department visits and hospitalisation

‘The evidence appears to suggest that the use of emergency departments and transfer to hospital could be mitigated if clients towards the end of their lives and their families feel well supported at...

Getting anticipatory prescribing right in end-of-life care

The Department of Health and Social Care (2012) developed ‘Vision and strategy: an approach to district nursing’, building upon the six Cs (care, compassion, competence, communication, courage and...

Do no harm

‘Hospital data for England have suggested downward trends for Clostridioides difficile and MRSA but upward trends for E. coli and methicillin-susceptible S. aureus.’.

Shared decision-making

“Shared decision-making is an ethical imperative, because it ensures information sharing and working in partnership and is associated with better outcomes.”.

Are you IT savvy?

“It is likely that many district nursing clients do not have high digital literacy levels.” .

Improving service delivery

‘It is not simply the innovation and its implementation but also the context and interaction between these elements which influence success.’ .

A ‘long-term plan’

‘Planning and careful implementation will be required so that long waits in the home do not simply replace long waits for nursing care in hospital corridors or wards.’ .

Transforming community care

‘Many older people move among services to meet multiple or complex care needs, but examples of good integrated care remain infrequent.’ .

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