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Dr Crystal Oldman

QNI

GENERAL PRACTICE

NURSING SURVEY
Over the summer months, the Queen’s Nursing Institute
launched a national general practice nursing survey to
understand the key issues currently affecting practice
nurses. Over 3,000 responses were received. This follows
on from the QNI’s survey of district nurses which led to
the landmark 2009 document, 2020 Vision. The report
described the district nursing service in the UK and the
challenges and opportunities, from the perspective of
district nurses. The findings identified technology, workforce
planning and discharge planning as the key issues affecting
district nurses at the time.
The findings from the general practice nursing survey will
enable the QNI to support practice nurses and ensure
they have the same opportunities and career framework
as other community nurses. The findings will be published
later this year.
“We felt it was time to survey general practice nurses
to understand from their perspective what issues they
face in their role,” says Anne Pearson, QNI’s Director of
Programmes. “We largely used the template from the
district nursing survey but expanded on certain areas a
little. For example, we asked about terms and conditions
and development opportunities. The district nursing report
really helped to inform what our priorities should be and
we’re acting on them. The hope with the general practice
nursing survey is that it will very much identify three key
themes and prioritise the work we do with general practice
nurses. We’re really grateful we received so many responses
and we now have a responsibility to analyse and convey
those issues as general practice nurses see them.”

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