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Department of Health and Social Care (2025) Fit for the future: 10 year health plan for England (CM 1350).

Health Innovation Network and NHS England: National Wound Care Strategy Programme

Legs Matter (2025) National Wound Care Strategy Programme (NWCSP) wound care resources.

NHS Wales (no date) Once for Wales: Nursing and Midwifery Education: Post Graduate Community Nursing SCPHN and SPQ Programmes.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (no date) Standards for post registration.

Nursing and Midwifery Council (2022) Standards of proficiency for community nursing specialist practice qualifications.

RCN Library subject guide: Digital nursing.

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Strategic Programme for Primary Care (2022) National community nursing specification: overarching principles, characteristics, and functions of community nursing in Wales.

The Queen's Nursing Institute (2021) Standards of education and practice for nurses new to care home nursing. London: QNI.

Department of Health Northern Ireland (2018) A district nursing framework 2018-2026. (no place): DH.

We would like to thank the RCN District and Community Nursing member community for their input into the development of this subject guide.

Bradby M (ed.) (2022) District nursing at a glance. Chicester: Wiley-Blackwell.

Brook J, McGraw C and Thurtle V (eds.) (2021) Oxford handbook of primary care and community nursing. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.

Burrows P, Cowie J, Robotham A and Frost M (2023) Health visiting: specialist community public health nursing. 3rd edn. Amsterdam: Elsevier.

Carey N, Franklin P, Thomas T and Rees S (2025) Oxford handbook of prescribing for nurses and allied health professionals. 3rd edn. Oxford: Oxford University Press.  

Carrier J (2022) Managing long-term conditions and chronic illness in primary care: a guide to good practice. Taylor and Francis.

Chilton S and Bain H (2025) A textbook of community nursing. 3rd edn. London: Routledge.

DeMarco R F and Healey-Walsh J (2024) Community and public health nursing: evidence for practice. 4th edn. Philadelphia: Wolters Kluwer.

Gould J and Bain H (2022) Principles and practice of nurse prescribing. London: Learning Matters. 

Gunowa N O and McBride M (2025) A clinician’s survival guide to district nursing. Edinburgh: Elsevier.

Loschiavo J (2023) Fast facts for the school nurse. 4th ed. New York: Springer Publishing.

Mitchell A, Ritchie G and Hopkins A (2024) Lower limb and leg ulcer assessment and management. Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell.

Probst S (2021) Wound care nursing: a person-centred approach. 3rd edn. Edinburgh:  Elsevier. 

Ross F, Harris R G, Fitzpatrick J, Abley C and Redfern S J (2024) Redfern’s nursing older people. 5th edn. (no place): Elsevier.

Scobie I (2023) Atlas of diabetes mellitus. 4th edn. CRC Press.

Stacey G, Westwood G, and Florence Nightingale Foundation (2023) Leadership development for nurses and midwives. (no place): Elsevier. 

Use these links to see details of books the RCN libraries hold on each topic.

Use these links for details of journal articles on each topic.

Journals of interest for district and community nursing. Use these links to see details of availability.

RCN District and Community Nursing Forum - Driving quality care at home.

• This sketch animation was created by the RCN District Nursing Steering Group to highlight the work that District Nurses do.
  

The Nursing history collection generally consists of modern books about the history of nursing which can be borrowed by RCN members.

Cohen S (2018) The district nurse: a pictorial history. Barnsley: Pen and Sword History. 

Jordan P (2012) District nurse: my life as a nurse in the 1950s, London: Orion.

Morrison C (2017) Hebridean heroines: twentieth century Queen's Nurses (1940s-1970s), Laxay, Isle of Lewis: Islands Book Trust.

Our Permanent Collection consists of nursing specific core items and rare items. Items are viewable by appointment at the RCN Library and Museum.

Baly M, Robottom B and Clark J (1987) District nursing (2^nd edition), London: Heinemann.

Handbook for Queen's Nurses (1924), London: The Scientific Press.

Loane M (1905) Outlines of routine in district nursing, London: The Scientific Press.

Stocks M (1960) A hundred years of district nursing, London: Allen and Unwin.

The RCN Archive contains some of the most important collections dedicated to the history of the nursing profession in the UK, including the organisational records of the Queen Victoria's Institute of District Nursing Scottish branch which subsequently became the Queens Nursing Institute, Scotland (QNIS). Viewable in Edinburgh by appointment.

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The RCN Archive contains over 600 recordings of individuals from across the nursing profession. Search "T/*" in the RefNo search field of the archive catalogue to browse the collection.

The Queen's Nursing Institute Heritage website explores the 150 year history of district nursing in the UK.