Website of the Department of Health

• Towards a framework for post-registration nursing careers: consultation response report

• Confidence in caring: a framework for best practice

• Mixed sex accommodation good practice guide (opens new window)

• Good practice in learning disability nursing

• Towards a framework for post-registration nursing careers: a national consultation.

• Essence of care: benchmarks for the care environment

• Facing the Future: A review of the role of health visitors
• The government response to Facing the Future: a review of the role of health visitors

• Looking back - facing the future: Chief Nursing Officer's Black and Minority Ethnic Advisory Group report

• Managing attrition rates for student nurses and midwives: a good practice guide for strategic health authorities and higher education institutions

• From hospital to home - Supporting nurses to move from hospital to the community (opens new window)

• Handling concerns about the performance of healthcare professionals: principles of good practice

• Midwifery leadership programme development workbook (version 2, revised April 2006)

• Modernising nursing careers - setting the direction

• Recruitment and retention of mental health nurses: Good practice guide

• Self-assessment toolkit - From values to action: The Chief Nursing Officer's review of mental health nursing

• The Chief Nursing Officer's review of the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to vulnerable children and young people

• Green paper, 'Every Child Matters', on the DfES website (opens new window)

• Freedom to practise: dispelling the myths

• Liberating the public health talents of community practitioners and health visitors

• Liberating the talents: Helping primary care trusts and nurses to deliver the NHS Plan

• Making a Difference: strengthening the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to health and healthcare

• Making a difference in primary care: the challenge for nurses, midwives and health visitors - Case studies from NHS regional conferences

• Download Making a Difference - Clinical Supervision in Primary Care (PDF, 32K)
• Download Making a Difference - Integrated Working in Primary Care (PDF, 32K)

• Modern matrons in the NHS: a progress report

• Investment and reform for NHS staff: taking forward the NHS Plan

• PL CNO (2000)7: Towards a strategy for nursing research and development

• NHS funded nursing care practice guide and workbook

• The nursing contribution to the provision of comprehensive critical care for adults a strategic programme of action

• Reports and publications from the Standing Nursing and Midwifery Advisory Committee (opens new window)

The Health Visitor and School Nurse Development Programme

• Information about the family-centred and child-centred public health roles
• Summaries of principles of public health practice
• Suggested activities to help you work in new ways

• School nurse: practice development resource pack 2006
• Health visitor practice development resource pack

Towards a strategy for nursing research and development

In March 2000 the Nursing and Research and Development Directorates jointly hosted a workshop to explore how best to give effect to a commitment to strengthen the nursing, midwifery and health visiting contribution to research and development made in Making a Difference.

• Towards a strategy for nursing research and development proposals for action, 2000

Free nursing care

• Implementing the NHS Plan - Modern Matrons
• Agenda for Change
• NHS funded nursing care practice guide and workbook (including registered nursing care contribution)