Community nurses can reach socially excluded people who can't be reached by other health services, according to King's Fund chief executive Rabbi Julia Neuberger. 'They can provide quality healthcare to homeless people, travelling families and refugees - many of whom have little contact with mainstream health services until they become dangerously unwell,' she told a conference organised jointly by the King's Fund and the Queen's Nursing Institute.
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