ABSTRACT
As part of the World Health Organisation European policy for health across the 51 member states, since 2001 a scheme piloting the Family Health Nurse was introduced within the United Kingdom. In its first year this new nurse was described thus:
The Family Health Nurse role combines caring for those who are ill with health assessment of the whole family together with public health activities along the “life course” . . . In some areas they will be the only health care practitioner or nurse, in others they will integrate into existing primary care teams.1
