title: Clinical nurse specialists: essential resource for an effective NHS.
abstract: Despite emerging evidence for the clinical and financial efficacy of the clinical nurse specialist (CNS), the provision of this role is patchy across the country. There is also a risk that incumbent CNS' may be redirected to less specialist work in trusts that do not appreciate the full value of the service that these nurses provide. Optimal and equitable patient access to CNS care will require the development of a strong evidence base showing that specialist nurses not only deliver patient-focused care, but that they can also help to meet healthcare managers' objectives of streamlined, cost-effective clinical services.
authors: Healthcare at Home Ltd., UK.
authors: Cheryl
authors: C
authors: Vidall
authors: Helen
authors: H
authors: Barlow
authors: Maggie
authors: M
authors: Crowe
authors: Isabel
authors: I
authors: Harrison
authors: Annie
authors: A
authors: Young
mesh_terms: D003363:Cost Control; D006801:Humans; D009720:Nurse Clinicians / Q000191:economics / Q000458:organization & administration*; D024802:Nurse's Role; D011787:Quality of Health Care; D013222:State Medicine / Q000191:economics; D006113:United Kingdom