title: Caring for dry and damaged skin in the community.
abstract: Community nurses are ideally place to fully utilize nurse prescribing to improve the accessibility to emollient therapy for any patient with dry skin, regardless of cause. Skin diseases affect 23% of the general population and patients accessing care in the primary setting contribute to 15-20% of general practice appointments.
authors.affiliation: Chelsea and Westminster NHS Trust, London.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Peters
mesh_terms: D003152:Community Health Nursing; D006801:Humans; D012871:Skin Diseases / Q000451:nursing*