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Community paediatrics
The future of community children’s nursing
Chair, on behalf of the RCN Community Children’s Nursing Forum
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Mr M Whiting
Chair CCN Forum, Royal College of Nursing, 20 Cavendish Square, London W1G 0RN, UK; mwhiting.family@tinyworld.co.uk
The time is right for children’s nurses and paediatricians to work more closely together
Keywords: community nursing
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The Royal College of Nursing Community Children’s Nursing Forum was delighted to see the collection of articles on community paediatrics in the February edition of Archives,1 though one thing that did concern us greatly was the failure in most of the articles to acknowledge the role of the community children’s nurse (CCN) in supporting children with an increasingly complex range of health care needs within the community. While Hall and Lowson’s examination of the role of the nurse practitioner2 provided one example of innovative practice in primary care, for many, many children the mainstay of care in the community is the CCN!
Over 50 years ago when the Rotherham Community Children’s Nursing Service,3 Paddington Home Care Team,4 and the Birmingham Children’s Home Care Service5 were introduced, the work of pioneering community children’s nurses owed much to the inspiration of paediatric medical staff based in the children’s hospital
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