Welcome to our blogs page where we share stories relating to health inequalities, community projects, sustainability, leadership and community nursing.
Summary Briefing: The Lobbying Act for a Third Sector Audience
The Transparency of Lobbying, Non-party Campaigning and Trade Union Administration Act 2014, better known as the ‘Lobbying Act’, has been…
November’s Health Policy Officer’s Network
HPON or the Health Policy Officers Network is a peer support network of Health Policy Officers in small to medium…
Anticipatory Care – Blog on the QNIS Chair in Community Nursing’s Inaugural Lecture
On 23rd November, QNIS Chair of Community Nursing at Robert Gordon University, Professor Catriona Kennedy, gave her inaugural lecture on…
Three pieces of advice for a community placement!
Ruth-Ann Welsh, Undergraduate prizewinner for Abertay University offers some words of wisdom. As a first year mental health nursing student…
HPON with the Health and Sport Committee
Kiren Zubairi is Policy Engagement OFficer with VHS and here talks about her first meeting with the Health Policy Officer’s…
The journey to community nursing
QNIS Undergraduate Prize Winner from QMU, Jade McNee, tells us about her experience of community nursing. My first ever placement…
The importance of community views in Planning
Rob Mackie, Policy and Communications Manager with QNIS talks about attending a meeting with Planning Aid Scotland. Last week, I…
Health Policy Officer’s Network
Recently, the Queens Nursing Institute Scotland and VHS agreed there was potential for a networking group of policy officers based in health. Working…
Anticipatory Care Planning: gives people greater choice and control over their future care and support
Janette Barrie, from NHS Lanarkshire, discusses Anticipatory Care Planning. In Lanarkshire, we started developing anticipatory care planning a few years…
Intergenerational Event with QNIS and GCU
On Thursday 16 June Glasgow Caledonian University hosted a lunch for the West of Scotland Queen Nurses (QNs) and District…
