POLICY: Nursing at the Edge - Case Study - Champion of the underdog

A case study from Fife which informed the findings of RCN Scotland’s Time To Change report on health inequalities

If Scotland is serious about addressing this country’s chronic health inequalities, we have to do much more to meet the needs of people who exist on the edges of society: those who are poor, homeless, living with mental health challenges or drug and alcohol problems, ex-prisoners and the socially disenfranchised.

This case study of Sally O’Brien, a nurse working in NHS Fife’s alcohol related brain damage team, informed our main Time To Change report

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