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NURSING HAS articulated for many years the need to improve primary health care (PHC) services and views the development of nursing itself as central to successful service delivery. The last three years has seen considerable energy directed at PHC nursing by various nurse leaders, resulting in a number of Government and Ministry of Health initiatives. These initiatives have included scholarships and money for the development of innovative local nursing models. The document developed by nurse leaders, Investing in Health: A framework for activating primary health care nursing, provides advice and recommendations to the Ministry, district health boards (DHBs) and primary health organisations (PHOs) on a framework for PHC nursing in New Zealand. (1)
In 2002 I was involved in one of the 11 successful Ministry of Health innovations …