Children and young people’s nursing: why community is key

This year the saw the launch of the 10 Year Health Plan for England with its stated intention to ‘reinvent the NHS’. There are planned developments in three areas: from hospital to community, from analogue to digital and from sickness to prevention. While these are described as ‘radical shifts’, each of these themes have featured prominently in NHS strategic plans stretching back over several decades, most recently in 2014 in the Five Year Forward View.