A major opportunity has arisen for OH nursing to make a significant impact
at the heart of Government.
The Chief Nursing Officer, Christine Beasley, has invited nurses to
comment on her proposals for the future of post-registration training. The
consultation has just begun and responses must be made by 15 February
2008.
http://www.dh.gov.uk/en/Consultations/Liveconsultations/DH_079911
The CNO’s proposals for the future of nurse training make no mention of OH
nursing. The inference is that OH nursing, as part of the wider body of
community/public health nursing, will be wrapped up with nursing for
families and children.
As the consultation is a web-based questionnaire there is a tremendous
opportunity for OH nurses to make their voice heard. If we could, for
example, get a few hundred OH nurses to respond to the consultation the
impact would be immense forcing the CNO to respond. This is an ideal
opportunity for a web and email campaign.
The consultation has a box for nurses to identify OH as their specialism.
It takes only a few minutes to complete. It is linked from the DH website
but can be accessed directly here
http://www.cdhpp1.leeds.ac.uk/questions.asp
Please could you consider passing this message to other OH nurses
encouraging them to respond to the consultation.
I have already invited the OHMF, SOHN, AOHNP, and ANHONS to consider
cascading to their membership. Please consider passing it to other groups
and email lists. Thanks.
Helen
Helen Kirk
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