The Queen's Nursing Institute
The Queen's Nursing Institute works with the public, nurses and decision-makers to make sure that good quality nursing is available at home for everyone when they need it.
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Why not enjoy a short visit or a long day out at a National Gardens Scheme garden and show your support for one of the QNI's major funders.
Supporting the Fund for Innovation and Leadership.
Visit our District Nursing 150 website, a celebration of the vibrant one hundred and fifty year history of District Nursing in the UK.
London 10k Run 2011
A massive thank you to all runners who ran the British 10k London run for the QNI yesterday in the heat!
A record 20 runners ran or walked the race for us, raising thousands of pounds for our 'Right Nurse, Right Skills' campaign. They joined 25,000 other runners on the day, most of whom were also running for charity.
The runners included nursing students, an IT specialist, Queen's Nurses and their partners, a former Olympian cyclist and a QNI staff member. Their running experience ranged from seasoned marathon runners to novice 10k walkers.
QNI runner, Louise Porterfield, said, 'It was a lovely day and for once so was the weather! It was really nice to see so many people running for a good cause.'
Katrine Kiertzner, another QNI runner, added, 'This was my second 10k for the QNI, another hot one, but tremendous support made it almost enjoyable! Right Nurse, Right Skills covers running as well, obviously! It was good to get the QNI logo out there for people to see, and ask what we do.'
This year, all of the funds raised will go towards supporting our campaign, 'Right Nurse, Right Skills'. This vital campaign is to ensure that patients get the right care in their own homes.
Rosemary Cook CBE, Director of the QNI says, 'Patients in their own homes are some of the most vulnerable in society. Their care may suffer if the nurses or health care assistants who visit them are too inexperienced or unprepared. The real danger is that this decline in care will be invisible as it happens behind closed doors. The funding raised by our runners is vital to make our campaign effective and to bring about change.'
If you would like to lend your voice to the campaign, please click here.
If you would like to read some of our runners' training blogs and follow their tales of blood, much sweat and some tears, click here!
Thank you to all our runners - see you in 2012!
For more information about the race in 2012, or to book your place, please contact andrea.davids@qni.org.uk.
