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Ms Scattergood warned that an ICS “wouldn’t be in any way able to function without senior nurse leadership embedded at board level and throughout the structure”.
In fact, she believed that the reforms brought a “huge opportunity to develop the role of primary care nurses and nurses in and around public health and driving commissioning decisions”.
“All of the things that we’re talking about around population health – care closer to home or care at home, earlier interventions in terms of the life course and earlier interventions in terms of disease progression – need to be nurse led,” she said. “They’re not medical interventions.”