Griffith Richard
Senior Lecturer in Health Law, College of Health Science, Swansea University.
Br J Community Nurs. 2017 Jan 2;22(1):685-687. doi: 10.12968/bjcn.2017.22.1.685.
A coroner recently declared a district nursing service as unfit for purpose following the death of a patient and held the care given by district nurses was unprofessional and contributed to the patient's decline and death. In this article Richard Griffith considers the coroners concerns in relation to the professional standards imposed on district nurses.
