The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) plans to launch a network for ICB nurses to come together and share information and experiences in early 2023, our sister title has revealed.
As early as January next year the QNI wants to ‘create a safe space’ for nurses with positions on ICB boards to come together and to provide an opportunity to meet with other nurses and experts from the QNI.
Dr Oldman told Nursing in Practice: ‘I don’t think that the nurses are yet featuring strongly. It’s early days to make a judgement but it’s not happening yet because[the ICBs] are still forming and part of that forming is everyone finding their place.’
In response to this lack of voice, the QNI will be creating a network to offer ‘the chief nurses, and also their deputies, the opportunity to come together so they can share the challenges but also to have the opportunity to find out what data we have on communities’.
Dr Oldman also suggested that there was the potential to bring together the CNEN and ICB nurses network ‘once or twice a year’.
The network will initially be funded by the QNI and not receive funding from Health Education England, although Dr Oldman did suggest that the programme may seek a sponsor in the future.
ICB chief nurses and their deputies should expect to be contacted about the programme early next year.
This story first appeared on our sister title, Nursing in Practice.
