Sentence examples for more practice nurses from inspiring English sources

Richard Murray, of the King's Fund, which has just produced a report warning the NHS that it needs to get better at workforce planning, says: "We hear talk that more GPs are needed when it could be that more practice nurses, district nurses, physios and pharmacists could arguably be more effective and treating some patients and easier to recruit".

All but one participating practices had one or more practice nurses.

In addition significantly more practice nurses felt they could offer effective lifestyle counselling [ 38].

A previous study used aggregated practice data and found that general practices employing more practice nurses delivered better care for patients with diabetes.

Notes: aA positive association means the outcome and exposure variables increase or decrease in the same direction, i.e. more practice nurses per patient results in more hospitalisations.

An inverse association means the outcome and exposure variables move in the opposite direction, i.e. more practice nurses per patient results in less hospitalisations.

"Relying more on practice nurses is impossible when many surgeries are struggling to recruit, and existing practice nurses aren't simply sitting around waiting for patients to walk through the door.

More specifically, practice nurses are recommended to refer patients without depressive symptoms to e-health learning modules, patients with mild depressive symptoms to a physical exercise group, and patients with severe depressive symptoms to psychological help as appropriate in their practice [ 30].

The finding in the univariable analysis that patients with low health literacy had more contact with practice nurses but not with other health services requires further investigation.

However, GPs were more aware than practice nurses of the labels such as CPP to account for symptoms of pain which cannot be explained by organic pathology.

PN20 "Hopefully more (tests) actually being done for young people …patients can access practice nurses more easily and freely".