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Press Releases

Please click on the links below for latest press releases from the QNI. Each opens a pdf file.

18 August 2010
QNI gives community perspective on 'urgent and important' response to 'Liberating the NHS'

14 July 2010
QNI 10k runners raise thousands of pounds

28 June 2010
QNI to make short documentary film about transformational attributes, featuring Queen's Nurses

22 June 2010
3 free places available on British 10k London run

22 June 2010
Homeless Health Initiative Celebration Event

13 May 2010
Spring Awards Ceremony - Queen's Nurses now number over 100

12 May 2010
International Nurses Day - Florence Nightingale's contribution to district nursing

7 May 2010
QNI's marathon runner raises hundreds of pounds

7 April 2010
QNI celebrates first marathon runner

26 March 2010
District nurse is becoming an endangered species, says QNI

22 March 2010
Second Transformational Guide workshop takes place - an opportunity for community and a need to bridge an attribute gap

3 March 2010
A manifesto for quality nursing in the home from the Queen's Nursing Institute

16 February 2010
Run the London 10k for the QNI and support community nurses and their patients

4 February 2010
Seven new community nursing projects secure funding

3 February 2010
Retired nurse returns from sailing the Atlantic for QNI

1 February 2010
It's now or never for community services, says QNI Director

29 January 2010
QNI announces first dedicated conference for nurse partners on 11 March

18 January 2010
New film shows impact of community nurses caring for homeless people

 
Press releases 2008-2009 are listed below, most recent first.

7 December 2009
QNI celebrates end of district nursing's 150th anniversary year in home town

2 December 2009
'Social Enterprise is a vehicle, not a destination', QNI Director tells community nurses

26 November 2009
Homeless Health Initiative offers free resources to community nurses

19 November 2009
QNI Wall calendar for 2010 illustrated with twelve pictures from the archives

5 November 2009
Queen's Nurses 'tweet' in response to Prime Minister's Commission

27 October 2009
Retired nurse sails the Atlantic for the QNI

16 October 2009
QNI responds to PM's Commission's vision for nursing

7 October 2009
QNI honours nurses and presents Gold Badge to a medical colleague

28 September 2009
District nursing website wins Third Sector Excellence Award and chosen for British Library online archive

14 August 2009
Eight projects in the West Midlands receive funding and professional development through the Fund for Innovation

24 June 2009
QNI community nurse forum to test TCS Transformational Guides in practice

8 June 2009
District Nursing 150th Anniversary celebrations takes on life of their own says QNI

18 May 2009
Community nursing achievements celebrated at QNI Awards Ceremony

18 May 2009
Homeless Health Initiative conference draws 200 delegates from Britain and abroad

28 April 2009
QNI and Burdett Trust for Nursing launch national Fund for Innovation and Leadership in 2009.

28 April 2009
QNI and NHS West Midlands announce first regional Fund for Innovation partnership.

3 March 2009
Ann Keen and Nerys Hughes launch QNI's archive film DVD 'A Friend of the Family - District Nursing in 20th Century Britain'.

13 January 2009
QNI announces 'time to reinstate district nursing' in major new report on the state of district nursing in the UK

21 December 2008
New website to showcase 150 years of district nursing is launched

5 December 2008
Homeless Health Initiative first year Impact Report published

13 November 2008
Chief Nursing Officer for England hails new Queen's Nurses' leadership potential at first general QN meeting

30 October 2008
'Walking and talking' key to coping with work-based stress for community nurses; QNI launches phase two of Nursing N°1 campaign

15 October 2008
New Fellows of the Institute and Queen's Nurses welcomed at Fellows and Alumnae event

15 September 2008
Fund for Innovation 2009 opens for applications

30 July 2008
New bursary launched to support careers in the community

4th July 2008
QNI welcomes 'charter for innovation and enterprise' but warns of hole at the centre of the picture

12th June 2008
QNI honours outstanding contribution at annual celebration of community nursing

13th May 2008
Be careful what you wish for, QNI warns Darzi review

9th May 2008
QN Memorial Fund to support new Queen's Nurses

2nd May 2008
QNI annouces two Russian nurses to have won the Vera Lebedeva Memorial Bursary

13th March 2008
QNI announces the two British nurses to have won the Vera Lebedeva Memorial Bursary

21st January 2008
Don’t forget to nurse number one, says QNI