QNIS Chief Executive and Nurse Director, Sarah Doyle, was recently invited to the House of Lords for the launch of the 2025 World Health Organisation report on the State of the World’s Nursing. The event was chaired by Lord Nigel Crisp and sponsored by the Burdett Trust for Nursing. The discussion was led by Professor…
QNIS team attends the Garden Party at Buckingham Palace
QNIS was honoured to be invited to Buckingham Palace to attend the Garden Party for those working in Education and Skills from across the nations. Sarah Doyle, QNIS Chief Executive and Nurse Director; Hazel Borland, QNIS Trustee; Dawn Cruse, Business Support Officer, and Emma Legge, Professional Nurse Lead, attended this memorable afternoon. The sun shone…
Retired Queen’s Nurse Annual Gathering and holiday 2025
The sun was out in Pitlochry last week at the QNIS Annual gathering and holiday, which took place for its second year at Fisher’s Hotel. Around 50 retired Queen’s Nurses, volunteer visitors, staff, Trustees, and guests came together to renew friendships, share memories, and enjoy a delicious lunch. The Annual Gathering is an opportunity for…
Supporting people with a learning disability in the justice system
Think COULD was developed by a cohort of eight Learning Disability Queen’s Nurses across Scotland in partnership with QNIS with funding from The Burdett Trust for Nursing. It was designed to support people with a learning disability if they find themselves in contact with the justice system. As part of the Think COULD project, an original…
QNIS comments on the QNI’s change of name to Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN)
In light of the announcement that QNI will be changing its name, we have taken the decision to remain as the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland. As QNIS we remain focused on providing high-quality professional development opportunities for Scotland’s community nurses and midwives, encouraging them to tackle health and care inequalities in collaboration with the people…
New clinical advisors for QNIS
Late last year, we invited applications for two Queen’s Nurse Clinical Advisors to QNIS Council. We are delighted to announce that Katy Jenks and Kim Barron were appointed to the roles and will be joining quarterly Council meetings from May 2025. The Clinical Advisor role complements that of the Trustees by bringing a practice perspective…
Empowering an imprisoned population to improve their heart health
As a new cohort of community nurses are due to begin their journey on the Queen’s Nursing Development Programme, we caught up with Rosie Crighton, Health Visitor and School Nurse Team Leader, from NHS Grampian, who completed the programme in 2023. Rosie was one of four community clinical nurse experts supported by QNIS to become…
QNIS Annual Review 2024 published
The QNIS Annual Review 2024 is now available online. The publication features information about the new 2024 Queen’s Nurses – 21 community nurses who completed the Queen’s Nurse Development Programme last year. It also updates readers on what the staff at QNIS have been working on throughout the year, as well as news from contemporary…
Long service recognised by QNIS
We are delighted to have supported a number of long service awards events this year. In total, certificates were awarded to 413 community nurses and midwives who have given 21 years or more of service to the community. These events recognise the invaluable contributions of healthcare professionals who have devoted their careers to the wellbeing…
Celebrating the 2024 Queen’s Nurses
Our annual Queen’s Nurse awards evening took place on Thursday 28th November at the Grassmarket Community Project. The Queen’s Nurse title was awarded to 21 community nurses who completed the nine-month Queen’s Nurse Development Programme (QNDP) this year. We were delighted that retired Queen’s Nurse, Merrill Whalen, and Anne Armstrong, Interim Chief Nursing Officer, were…
