Abstract:Community nurses have perhaps more than most felt the effects of commissioning as services reduced to what is made explicit contractually. Commissioning was rolled out as the solution to the global financial crisis in 2007/8 that directly impacted on the cost of the NHS and at the time the mantra was to accept service re-configeration and be fit for commissioning purposes. We suggest, in contrast, successive governments' over the past thirty years have been less than candid about their true intentions to refor… Show more
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