What’s included in this section:
The aim of the Enhanced Community Care model is to support organisations to deliver joined up, outcome focused, evidence-based community services, through a place-based multi-professional working model of care.
The Enhanced Community Care model will include:
This project is intended to contribute to, and not duplicate local initiatives and wherever possible align with existing work being undertaken within Health Boards and other regional and national organisations.
Plan on a Page - Enhanced Community Care
Enhanced Community Care [summary paper]
What is integrated community based health & social care? Infographic.
The aim of the National Community Nursing Vision & Framework is to support organisations to achieve joined up, outcome focused, and evidence-based community nursing services.
The Community Nursing Vision & Framework will include:
This project is intended to contribute to, and not duplicate local initiatives and wherever possible align with existing work being undertaken within Health Boards and other regional and national organisations.
The aim of the National Care Home Immunisations Model is to support delivery of specific (appropriate) immunisations within the Care Home’s with nurses, by Care home employed nurses.
The work planned to achieve this National Care Home Immunisations Model will include:
This project is intended to contribute to, and not duplicate local initiatives and wherever possible align with existing work being undertaken within Health Boards and other regional and national organisations.
If you’d like to know more about this piece of work, you can contact us via the Strategic Programme Primary Care SPPC@wales.nhs.uk
The National Community Nursing specification outlines at a strategic level the overarching principles, characteristics, and functions of Community Nursing in Wales for individuals aged 16 and over. The experience of individuals and families using or accessing community nursing services are at its centre, via the use of core principles focused on providing person centred, preventative, safe and effective services. Its aims are:
The specification is not able to comprehensively cover all areas of practice and specialism that Nurses working in the Community provide. Therefore, this specification focuses on General Practice Nurses, Specialist Nurses and District Nurses and their teams.
Community Nursing Services do not work alone and are an essential part of the wider nursing team, multi professional team and health and care system.
Standardising key elements of Community Nursing Services will promote greater collaborative working between nurses and understanding of community nurse’s role and value within the wider multi professional team. This will be important as traditional role boundaries change and nurses increasingly work in new models of care to meet the challenges of our health and care system.
The specification promotes Community Nurses to come together to review the way they work across pathways for people aged 16 and over. It encourages nurses to think about different models of working, how to share and learn from one another and advocates for a move towards a preventative population-based approach to support the people they care for.
Recognising the value Community Nurses offer, the specification outlines how nurses should be enabled to lead and support research and service improvements, have clear development and career pathways and be supported via access to regular clinical supervision.
Community Nurses offer strong clinical leadership and governance to their services and the wider health and care team. This, alongside a consistent approach to the way they work, will enable nurses to further lead, develop, and/or support current and new services, to meet the ambitions of the Primary Care Model for Wales.
National Community Nursing specification
Letter from CNO and Alex Slade - National Community Nursing Specification