The 2004 Choosing Health white paper promised a school nurse for everysecondary school and cluster of primary schools by 2010. But there isincreasing concern that the NHS cash crisis will prevent these targetsbeing met through recruitment freezes.
However, a year-long scheme run by the Care Services ImprovementPartnership to boost the capacity of the school workforce has found away around this problem. It has enabled school nurses to spend more timewith pupils and the development of support worker roles has meant nursescan do more public health work.
Janis Stout, senior workforce adviser for the partnership's children andfamilies programme, said: "Training nurses takes longer than trainingsupport workers to do many of the nurses' tasks. This approach frees upnurses."
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