Community Matters Resources

16 November 2017

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, we look at the current state of wound care formularies and ask the question

11 August 2017

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, we look at the current state of NHS mental health services and ask the question

Topics:  Mental Health
14 June 2017

In each  issue  we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at the current state of the NHS Mental Health Services and asks the question...

Topics:  Suicide
14 June 2017

Jacqui Ciotkowski is a part-time bank community nurse for South Warwickshire NHS Trust and a part-time teaching assistant

04 April 2017

In each  issue  we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at some of the challenges that lie ahead in the coming year.

Topics:  unions
09 February 2017

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at some of the challenges that lie ahead in the coming year.

Topics:  Education
03 January 2017

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Georgia Craig looks at alternative ways to review patients in the community and asks... Restoring joy to practice: could group consultations help?

Topics:  Efficiency
07 November 2016

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at providing cash incentives for healthy behaviour and asks...

...Should we be paying people to get better?

Getting people to take their medicine (literally and metaphorically) has always been a problem in health care, but a new study has reignited the debate about providing cash incentives for people to adopt healthy lifestyles.

Topics:  Health
08 August 2016

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and asks 'What will Brexit mean for community nurses?

he days immediately following the Brexit vote felt a bit like the day after a wedding reception — the balloons had all been popped; the drunken uncles and aunts had been put into taxis; and the cake crumbs and smashed glasses had being swept from the dancefloor. Now it was time to forget the speeches and the promises and get on with the rest of our lives.

Topics:  Community nurses
06 June 2016

In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your practice. 

Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at the wealth of information provided about dementia and asks the question...

Topics:  Dementia