{"id":11794,"date":"2026-07-20T17:23:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T16:23:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-uki\/?p=11794"},"modified":"2026-07-27T16:14:49","modified_gmt":"2026-07-27T15:14:49","slug":"care-outside-of-the-hospital-changing-roles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-uki\/resources\/care-outside-of-the-hospital-changing-roles\/","title":{"rendered":"Care Outside of the Hospital: Changing Roles"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthcare delivery is shifting from hospitals into community settings, but the workforce, funding, and infrastructure have not kept pace. In this talk, Steph,&nbsp;Chief Executive&nbsp;of the Queen&#8217;s Institute of Community Nursing and former&nbsp;Chief Nurse&nbsp;at Leeds Community Healthcare, makes a compelling case for why community nursing must be&nbsp;recognised&nbsp;as a core part of the health and care system. She challenges leaders to confront the gaps that are putting patients at risk every day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"padding:56.25% 0 0 0;position:relative;\"><iframe src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1208811009?badge=0&amp;autopause=0&amp;player_id=0&amp;app_id=58479\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" style=\"position:absolute;top:0;left:0;width:100%;height:100%;\" title=\"Care Outside of the Hospital: Changing Roles\"><\/iframe><\/div><script src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/api\/player.js\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<div style=\"height:25px\" aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-spacer\"><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">Key themes from the panel<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Community nursing is&nbsp;core&nbsp;infrastructure, not a peripheral service.<\/strong>&nbsp;It enables people to live well at home and prevents avoidable deterioration, admission, and&nbsp;institutionalised&nbsp;care.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Understand the implications of the \u201cleft shift,\u201d<\/strong>&nbsp;Including how moving care&nbsp;into community settings&nbsp;affects&nbsp;&nbsp;in&nbsp;responsibility, infrastructure, decision-making,&nbsp;and&nbsp;&nbsp;the&nbsp;management of&nbsp;professional risk.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Care not done is causing&nbsp;real harm.<\/strong>&nbsp;Thousands of&nbsp;frail, elderly, vulnerable people across the country are not receiving their care because there is simply not&nbsp;the capacity&nbsp;in community nursing services.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Pre-registration nurse training must change.<\/strong>&nbsp;At least 50% of training should take place in community settings to build a workforce fit for the future.&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>Investment must follow the&nbsp;patient.<\/strong>&nbsp;Learn why Steph believes&nbsp;investment,&nbsp;staffing decisions&nbsp;and patient safety measures should better align with the continued shift of care into community settings.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The challenges addressed and how the products respond<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Healthcare culture&nbsp;remains&nbsp;centred&nbsp;around hospitals. Nurses are trained to work in hospitals, not in community settings. The complexity and acuity of community caseloads&nbsp;has&nbsp;changed dramatically over the past decade, yet planning processes still default to hospital activity, bed flow, and acute metrics.&nbsp;Steph also highlights the challenges of measuring demand across dispersed&nbsp;community services and the impact this can have on workforce planning and resource allocation.&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Drawing on her experience, Steph highlights&nbsp;concerns&nbsp;that nurses are choosing to go back into hospitals because it feels safer, when previously they could not wait to work more autonomously in the community. Community nursing services are being cut, particularly overnight, creating&nbsp;huge&nbsp;risk for patients who are dying at home.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The sector needs a community-first culture. That means&nbsp;recognising&nbsp;community nursing&nbsp;expertise&nbsp;in strategic decision-making, designing services around people&#8217;s lives rather than&nbsp;organisational&nbsp;boundaries, and supporting teams to manage complexity, uncertainty, and risk outside of controlled clinical environments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">What this means in practice and who it is relevant to<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Steph discusses the&nbsp;real world&nbsp;consequences of capacity pressures within community nursing services, describing&nbsp;what she&nbsp;refers&nbsp;as&nbsp;the&nbsp;\u201cinvisible corridor&nbsp;care\u201d&nbsp;happening in communities every day.&nbsp;Drawing on examples of&nbsp;data from different trusts, it&nbsp;shows that thousands of people, most of them frail, elderly, and vulnerable, do not receive their care because community nursing services lack the capacity. This leads to harm and death. There have been coroners&#8217; cases citing a lack of district nursing capacity where patients have died, including cases where wound care was missed, patients developed sepsis, and&nbsp;subsequently&nbsp;died in hospital.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Disinvestment in community services does not save money. It causes more cost further down the line, both financial and human. Care not done in the community is also likely the ultimate reason behind corridor care in hospitals, because if everyone who needed to be seen in the community was seen, there would be far fewer people in hospital at any one time.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The future workforce is not just about&nbsp;head&nbsp;count. It is about capability, skill mix, supervision, leadership, and career development. Safe staffing depends on creating teams that are sustainable, resilient, and professionally supported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n    \n    <section\n        class=\"accordion accordion-wide py-16 py-md-26 text-bg-white accordion-post-page\"\n        id=\"\" data-bs-theme=\"white\">\n        <div class=\"container\">\n            \n\n<div class=\"wp-block-columns accordion-intro-row is-layout-flex wp-container-core-columns-is-layout-8f761849 wp-block-columns-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\">\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading heading-h2 mb-4 mb-md-4\">Frequently Asked Questions<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-column accordion-items-column is-layout-flow wp-block-column-is-layout-flow\"><div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a2025a9\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a2025a9\">\n            <span>What is the \u201cleft shift\u201d in healthcare?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a2025a9\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The left shift refers to the movement of care from hospitals into community settings. It includes moving from reactive care to prevention, from episodic treatment to ongoing support, and encompasses earlier intervention, supported discharge, complex care at home, rehabilitation, palliative and end-of-life care, long-term condition management, and public health activity.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a2028bd\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a2028bd\">\n            <span>Why is community nursing described as invisible?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a2028bd\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community nursing work often happens behind closed doors, across dispersed geography, and outside of hospital environments. Because it is less visible, community demand is harder to measure, fund, and staff for.\u00a0This invisibility is a safety issue as much as a planning issue.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a202aae\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a202aae\">\n            <span>What is \u201ccare not done\u201d in the community?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a202aae\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Care not done refers to the care that community nursing teams are unable to deliver because there is simply not the capacity.\u00a0The QICN\u00a0has\u00a0established\u00a0a coalition to lobby government and NHS leaders around this\u00a0issue, because\u00a0data shows it is leading to\u00a0real harm\u00a0and, in some cases, patient deaths.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a202d01\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a202d01\">\n            <span>Why do nurses need more community training?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a202d01\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Currently, 90% of care in the country happens outside of a hospital setting, yet only a tiny amount of\u00a0a nurse\u2019s\u00a0pre-registration training takes place in the community.\u00a0The QICN\u00a0is calling for a minimum of 50% of nurse training to happen in community settings, including primary care and care homes.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a202f01\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a202f01\">\n            <span>What skills do community nurses need for the future?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a202f01\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community nurses need advanced assessment skills, case management capabilities, and specialist knowledge around frailty, long-term conditions, wound care, medicines management, palliative care, mental health, safeguarding, and learning disability. They also need digital confidence and access to technology that works reliably in community environments.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a203127\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a203127\">\n            <span>Why must investment follow care into the community?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a203127\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">If more care is moving into the community, the funding must follow. It makes no sense for resources to remain where the patient\u00a0no longer is. Investment needs to cover workforce growth, education, supervision, leadership, digital infrastructure, equipment, and estates.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a20334c\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a20334c\">\n            <span>How does community staffing differ from hospital staffing?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a20334c\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Community staffing cannot be reduced to a simple ratio. Staffing decisions must reflect caseload complexity, travel time, geography, patient acuity, safeguarding concerns, escalation routes, and continuity of care. Tools can support decisions, but they must be underpinned by clinical leadership, robust data, and governance.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n<div class=\"accordion-item mb-1 border-0 bg-transparent rounded-3 d-flex gap-1\" id=\"\">\n    <div class=\"text-bg-off-white rounded-2 flex-grow-1 text-left\">\n        <button\n            class=\"accordion-header accordion-button collapsed border-0 bg-transparent text-dark m-0 heading-h6 px-3 py-3 px-md-8 py-md-6\"\n            type=\"button\" data-bs-toggle=\"collapse\" data-bs-target=\"#collapse-6a8c04a2034f0\" aria-expanded=\"false\"\n            aria-controls=\"collapse-6a8c04a2034f0\">\n            <span>What role does patient safety play in community care?<\/span>\n            <span class=\"accordion-icon\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n        <\/button>\n        <div id=\"collapse-6a8c04a2034f0\" class=\"accordion-collapse collapse \" data-bs-parent=\".accordion\">\n            <div class=\"accordion-body pt-0\">\n                \n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Patient safety frameworks have historically been\u00a0centred\u00a0around hospitals. There is a need to strengthen patient safety structures in the community, beyond pressure ulcers, to include risks like falls, missed assessments, medication errors, and the harm caused when care cannot be delivered due to capacity constraints.<\/p>\n\n\n            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-uki\/connected-health-care-summit-2026-sessions-on-demand\/\">&lt;&lt; Back to Sessions on Demand<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Healthcare delivery is shifting from hospitals into community settings, but the workforce, funding, and infrastructure&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":11798,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":true,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_members_access_role":[],"_members_access_error":""},"categories":[213],"tags":[352,390],"resource_capability":[],"class_list":["post-11794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-videos","tag-connected-health-care-summit","tag-connected-health-care-summit-2026-on-demand","primary-category-videos"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v28.2 (Yoast SEO v28.3) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Care Outside of the Hospital: Changing Roles<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Jane Stott of Priory Group and Ruth Carnall, former NHS London CEO, discuss culture, career pathways and women in leadership across health and social care.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-uki\/resources\/care-outside-of-the-hospital-changing-roles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Care Outside of the Hospital: Changing Roles\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Jane Stott of Priory Group and Ruth Carnall, former NHS London CEO, discuss culture, career pathways and women in leadership across health and social care.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.rldatix.com\/en-uki\/resources\/care-outside-of-the-hospital-changing-roles\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"UK &amp; 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