The Royal Pharmaceutical Society and The Royal College of Nursing have jointly published a report on how nurses and pharmacists work together across primary and community care. The report gives excellent examples of how nurses and pharmacists can effectively work together to improve how people manage their medicines in the community. The full report can…
Interventional Techniques for Cancer Pain Conference
QNIS Manifesto for Scottish Parliament Elections 2016
As Scottish Politics moves into Purdah ahead of May’s Scottish Parliament Elections, this is the perfect time to publish the QNIS Manifesto.
Scottish Government funds Out of Hours with £10 million
The Scottish Government has recently announced that £10million will be made available to fund a National Delivery Plan in order to take forwards the recommendations of the Out of Hours Review. This includes eight pilot test sites across Highland, Grampian, Glasgow, Lanarkshire, Tayside, Lothian, Fife and Ayrshire & Arran which will inform the wider national strategy. Further…
Final Fellowship Award
Today was a significant day in the history of QNIS. After 13 long years, and 37 successful candidates, the Fellowship Award programme has been brought to a close with our final recipient. The Programme gave nurses the opportunity to develop their research and practice skills and we are proud to have helped all 37 Fellows…
QNIS Projects Complete!
Our last two funding programmes – Creating Connections and Catalysts for Change, drew to a close at the end of 2015. Final reports from each of the ten projects have been submitted and are now available online on the programme pages, and each project’s respective page. These projects were wonderful examples of how nurse-led projects can…
QNIS Conference 2016
Our Annual Conference took place yesterday at the Royal College of Surgeons in Edinburgh. This day long event went well, and all at the QNIS would like to thank everyone for their attendance and contributions on the day. There was a definite buzz throughout the day, and this was due to our delegates. Presentations from…
Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People Strategy
On Friday 4th March, the Scottish Government published their Pregnancy and Parenthood in Young People (PPYP) Strategy.
Newsletter and Review of the Year 2015
We have recently published our newsletter for winter 2015/16, including a review of the year 2015. Our largest edition ever contains features on the Queen’s Nurse title, our Forward Plan for the next five years along with all our traditional features. Interactive Newsletter Static PDF Newsletter
Volunteering Support Grant 2016-17
The Voluntary Action Fund (VAF) has announced a new round of funding to help third sector organisations create new or enhanced volunteering projects. The Volunteering Support Grant 2016-17 will enable organisations to increase the diversity of their volunteer pool over an 11 month period.
