Abstract
The delivery of ‘High Quality Care for All’ (DH, 2008) has been a catalyst for some interesting reports commissioned by the Chief Nursing Officer (CNO) for England, Professor Dame Christine Beasley, from the National Nursing Research Unit (Kings College, London) to highlight the role of nursing in current and future health care delivery. ‘Nurses in Society: Starting the Debate’ (Maben and Griffiths, 2008) was prompted by a sense that nursing had lost its way and that there were unacceptable variations in the quality of care. The report reviews the many influences on nursing roles from sociological to educational and suggests a potential model for ‘the future registered nurse: practitioner, partner, leader’ (p15). It links well with a sister report also released in October ‘State of the Art Metrics: A Rapid Appraisal’ (Griffiths et al, 2008). This much-needed work on defining how to measure the nursing contribution to delivery and outcomes of care attempts to identify ways of incorporating more qualitative measures rather than the quantitative rates of infection, numbers of patients treated and the like.
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