title: Community nursing. Weight-lifters.
abstract: As hospital stays get shorter, the pressure on community nursing teams is becoming greater. Gill Frame and Paula O'Donnell describe how one trust devised a scoring system for patient dependency to ensure a fair workload within and between teams.
authors.affiliation: Warrington Community Healthcare Trust, UK.
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Frame
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: O'Donnell
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing / Q000458:organization & administration*; D006801:Humans; D010045:Outpatients / Q000145:classification*; D010348:Patient Care Team; D013222:State Medicine; D006113:United Kingdom; D016526:Workload / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*