Welcome to the fourth and last ENhANCE newsletter
It is time for goodbye, but not fare thee well!
After 3,5 years of intense activity, the ENhANCE project whose main aim was to define and deliver a European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurse, is now nearing its official end.
|Its aim of the project was to target a specific existing mismatch between the skills currently offered by nurses working in Primary Health Care (PHC) and those actually demanded by both public health care institutions and private service providers when applying innovative healthcare models centred on PHC.
On 6th and 20th May the Final ENhANCE Conference, was held online and attracted close to 300 participants, demonstrating the great interest and need to further develop community-based care services and homecare services across Europe, but also the need not only to work for a better recognition of the Family and Community Nurse as a key public health professional, but also to invest in nurse leadership to be able to bring about real change; and demonstrating impacts achieved in terms of improving outcomes and wellbeing!
In case you missed the Final Conference, or could not attend, the online event recordings and summary of the events from the final ENhANCE Conferences have been made available – please see project updates further below.
|Moreover, all final versions of the project results, have been made freely and openly available, such as the:
|In the longer term, the ultimate aim is to ensure sustainability for the ENhANCE project results, which at its most central is about achieving a broad and widespread recognition at the European level of Family Community Nurses (FCNs).
This recognition can be facilitated by ensuring a greater adoption and formal recognition of the professional profile at national or regional level, but also by continuing the work commenced with ENhANCE at the European level – namely to ensure a harmonised definition of the FCN Professional Profile relevance of the competencies and the associated European curriculum for FCN.
However, with a view to the variability in the organisation, structure, and governance of primary care and community-based care services across Europe, we would like to share with you a summary of key recommendations aimed at and policy and decision-makers.
The recommendations herein have been kept broad to ensure their relevance and applicability across the different cultural, health and social care contexts and have been made available in a short summary and infographic format available for download here.
Relevant policy update from Europe
|This Newsletter is part of the ENhANCE project (European Curriculum for Family and Community Nurse), which has received funding from the European Union, under the ERASMUS+ programme. You are receiving this newsletter because you subscribed to the ENhANCE project mailing list.