Influencing

QNIS works to influence legislation, policymaking, and political debates that affect community nursing and midwifery in Scotland.

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We work with politicians, civil servants, and other stakeholders to ensure a community nursing and midwifery perspective is incorporated into policymaking at the heart of government.

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In September, 2024, we held a reception sponsored by Carol Mochan MSP in the Scottish Parliament’s Garden Lobby. MSPs, health professionals, policymakers, nurses and midwives from across the country gathered to mark 135 years of the Queen’s Nursing Institute Scotland, and the awarding of the Queen’s Nurse title to more than 170 contemporary Queen’s Nurses. We were delighted to be joined by over 70 Queen’s Nurses from across Scotland.

Read our contribution to the independent think-tank Enlighten's NHS 48 campaign: Transforming Healthcare - QNIS - NHS 2048.

We submitted a response to the Health, Social Care and Sport Committee’s stage 1 examination of the Assisted Dying for Terminally Ill Adults (Scotland) Bill, which you can read here.

We also sent out a briefing to MSPs ahead of the Stage 1 debate on the bill , which you can read here.

We shared our views with Miles Briggs MSP, who consulted on a Member's Bill to give people of all ages living with terminal illness and residing in Scotland a legal right to palliative care. You can read our submission here.