From the 30th November, for two weeks, the QNIS office is being refurbished. This long awaited refurb will provide a fresh, contemporary look for the office, and tech upgrades will increase our capacity and ability to work with those who cannot travel to Edinburgh. As a result, for the next two weeks, staff will be working…
November Newsletter
Our November e-Newsletter has been published, and can be viewed by following this link. To receive the next e-Newsletter directly to your mailbox, sign up using the links at the bottom of the page, or contact rob.mackie@qnis.org.uk.
QNIS Forward Plan 2016-2020
At our AGM on November 12th, we were delighted to announce our Forward Plan, which will direct our work until 2020. This was a collaborative process which began back in March with a gathering of 40 of our stakeholders. Since then, we have honed and fine-tuned our priorities to create a way forward which will add…
Advanced Dementia Practice Model
Alzheimer Scotland has launched its latest policy report, Advanced Dementia Practice Model: understanding and transforming advanced dementia and end of life care.
New Universal Health Visiting Pathway in Scotland
This week, the Scottish Government published a new ‘Universal Health Visiting Pathway‘, which sets out the minimum core home visiting programme to be offered to all families by Health Visitors. The aim of the new pathway is to ensure consistent national services, underlining the importance of prevention and early intervention. The programme, which is to…
Protect our girls: a radio project to raise awareness of FGM and chronic pain
Over 100,000 women in the UK have been affected by female genital mutilation (FGM) with devastating long-term consequences, including persistent pain. Pain Concern was awarded funding from Rosa: the UK Fund for Women and Girls to raise awareness of these longer term effects of FGM on survivors. We recorded a special episode of our radio…
Long Service Awards at AGM on November 12th
One of our most valued activities is the awarding of Community Nursing Awards for Long Service.
Scotland’s Gardens Autumn Lecture
News Flash For Keen Gardeners and Garden Lovers Scotland’s Gardens Autumn Lecture Thursday 1st October 2015 Scotland’s Gardens and the Royal Horticultural Society are co-hosting a fantastic day of talks at the Albert Halls in Stirling. The event is a fundraiser in aid of Scotland’s Gardens’ beneficiary charities (including ourselves; The Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland…
Children and Young People Act 2014 – Scottish Government Consultations
The Scottish Government has recently launched TWO consultations onto different aspects of the Children and Young People’s (Scotland) Act 2014. There is a consultation into Part 12 (Services in relation to children at risk of becoming looked after etc) about the provision of Orders, and another about the making, consideration and determination of complaints concerning functions…
Award Winning COPE Scotland
A COPE Scotland project, partly funded by QNIS, has developed a piece of work which was named as a winner in the 2015 Health and Social Care Academy Creative Wellbeing Competition. This competition invited groups to complete entries on the theme ‘My Wellbeing, My Future‘ through poetry, short stories, photography, video, music and arts and crafts. COPE submitted…
