New Professional Guidance to Support General Practice Nurses in the Covid-19 Pandemic Published

I am delighted to see this work to provide nurses across our primary and community services with the bridging competencies they need to support our most vulnerable patients in community settings. I would like to say a special thanks for their work in this to colleagues Karen Storey, Primary Care Nursing Lead and Dr Bola Owolabi, National Specialty Adviser Older People and Integrated Person Centred Care.

I am very glad that together with colleagues in NHSE/I and Health Education England, the QNI is helping nurses to work collaboratively during the Covid-19 pandemic. The vital work of community nurses may be less visible in the media than that of their hospital colleagues, but they are nonetheless playing a critical role. By supporting residents in their own communities 24/7, including some of the most vulnerable people in society, community nurses are vital to the whole system approach to protecting all our health at this critical time.