title: Commissioning: the community nurse's role.
abstract: This article examines the proposal in the White Paper The New NHS (DoH 1997) that community nurses will be involved in commissioning health care and highlights nurses' absence from the commissioning arena in the past. The important contribution nurses can make to commissioning and their interpersonal and communication skills are considered. Factors that may constrain commissioning and strategies to overcome these are also discussed.
authors.affiliation: Grange Medical Centre, West Yorkshire.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Kaufman
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003284:Contract Services / Q000458:organization & administration*; D003659:Decision Making, Organizational; D005194:Family Practice / Q000458:organization & administration*; D007722:Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice; D006801:Humans; D011320:Primary Health Care / Q000458:organization & administration*; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom