Influencing Policy

As part of our support to community nurses, the QNI works to influence Government policies on primary care, nursing, and related issues such as services for homeless people and reducing health inequalities.

We do this by contributing to policy events and meetings, responding to national consultations, providing examples and information to policy-makers, and acting on national issues arising from local projects.

We are also committed to increasing the influence of front-line nurses on policy. Our series of QNI Briefings provide policy-related information in clear summary form for busy professionals, and our electronic forum for community nurses gives all nurses the opportunity to contribute to important debates.

 

Community Nurse Forum
The Forum enables interested community nurses to register electronically to contribute by email to debates on key community nursing topics. As we want to promote thoughtful, iterative discussion, and to identify clear themes and views that can be fed in to our policy work, we will be operating the Forum through email, rather than as an ad hoc message board. Questions will be circulated to members, and a summary of responses will be posted on the website for members to review, and for other nurses to see. Further rounds of responses, to a dedicated email address, will be used to refine the summary into a consensus view – or views – from the Forum.

Please click here to complete the QNI registration form in order to join the Community Nurse Forum.

If you are already registered with the QNI please click here to become a member of the Community Nurse Forum.