title: Community nursing profiles: their role in needs assessment.
abstract: The last article in our series of three looking at public health nursing explores the background from which community nursing profiles have developed into annual activities in provider trusts around the country. The author suggests that there are important issues which prevent them from being a valuable resource for needs assessment and service planning.
authors.affiliation: Wessex Institute, Southampton.
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Thomas
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D006301:Health Services Needs and Demand; D006801:Humans; D007587:Job Description; D009730:Nursing Assessment; D015403:Nursing Evaluation Research