Analysis of district nurse workload in the community

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to demonstrate which diseases and conditions are most prevalent among the workload of district nurses. The findings reported here are the result of a large project, which considered ways of allocating resources to health authorities for expenditure on community health care. As part of the data set for this project, a number of NHS trusts provided diagnoses relating to contacts for each of the community services. The conditions which cause the largest proportion of district nurses' contacts are reported, along with the average duration of contact for each of these conditions. It is hoped this evidence will provide an insight into the workload of district nurses.