title: District nurses deserve better support to ensure safe care.
abstract: Campaigns for safe nurse staffing levels have focused invariably on our hospitals, where the absence of sufficient suitably qualified nursing staff is often easy to identify. However, the problem is just as prevalent in the community, where patients and other service users are suffering because district nurses and those in similar roles are overstretched.
mesh_terms: D001291:Attitude of Health Personnel; D003152:Community Health Nursing; D006801:Humans; D009740:Nursing Staff / Q000600:supply & distribution*; D010561:Personnel Staffing and Scheduling / Q000592:standards*; D006113:United Kingdom