Includes bibliographical references and index.

The context of community health care nursing -- Social policy in public health and primary care -- Primary health care in the community -- Communication skills and health care delivery -- Community development in public health and primary care -- Health needs assessment, risk assessment and public health -- Research perspectives applied to primary health care -- Public health nursing-health visiting -- General practice nursing -- Contemporary issues in district nursing -- Community children's nursing -- School nursing -- Occupational health nursing -- Community mental health nursing -- Community learning disability nursing -- Assessment of competence to practice and new NMC teaching standards -- Inter-professional practice and teamwork -- Measuring the effectiveness of community health care nursing -- Non-medical prescribing -- Public health nursing -- Modernisation the primary care workforce.