Do governing body and CSU nurses on clinical commissioning groups really lead a nursing agenda? Findings from a 2015 Survey of the Commissioning Nurse Leaders' Network Membership.

Aims: This paper reports the findings from a 2015 survey of the Commissioning Nurse Leaders' Network. Our aim was to understand how governing body nurses perceive their influence and leadership on clinical commissioning groups.

Methods: An online survey method was used with a census sample of 238 governing body nurses and nurses working in Commissioning Support Units, who were members of the Commissioning Nurse Leaders' Network.

Good care cannot help all.

Thank you for the thoughtful article 'Nurse backs challenge to law on assisted dying' (analysis, 26 July). It was well balanced, but I feel I must challenge some statements in it.

Obesity plan is misdirected.

The government's new obesity strategy not only fails to challenge the big food companies who profit from childhood obesity, it has shifted responsibility to health visitors who are already dealing with an impossible workload.

Nurses' experiences of clinical commissioning group boards.

Aim To explore the experience of governing body nurses appointed to clinical commissioning group (CCG) boards; how they perform their responsibilities; and their perceived effectiveness in ensuring safe, patient-centred care and the factors that influence their effectiveness. Method This was a small pilot study using a mixed methods approach. There were four phases of the study: literature review, qualitative data collection (interviews), quantitative data collection (survey), and final data analysis.

Are senior nurses on Clinical Commissioning Groups in England inadvertently supporting the devaluation of their profession?: A critical integrative review of the literature.

In this study, we discuss the role of senior nurses who sit on clinical commissioning groups that now plan and procure most health services in England. These nurses are expected to bring a nursing view to all aspects of clinical commissioning group business. The role is a senior level appointment and requires experience of strategic commissioning.

Junior doctors are now in the same boat as nurses regarding pay.

It was great to see so much support for junior doctors among nurses at Barts Health NHS Trust in London (analysis November 18). But where is the RCN in supporting the junior doctors?

Fighting the good fight from Lambeth to Cambridgeshire.

Please join us for the next meeting of Lambeth Keep Our NHS Public on Thursday November 21, from 7pm at the Duke of Cambridge, 74 Lansdowne Way, London SW8 2DR. For further details, email lambethkonp@gmail.com.

Capability assessments record shames paralympics sponsor.

It was shocking to read how work capability assessments by private company Atos Healthcare are leading to many nurses with disabilities being denied Employment and Support Allowance (news August 22).

NHS pensions are in jeopardy for many if health bill is passed.

I am pleased that the RCN is opposing the health and social care bill ( news January 25 ) and I hope this will make a big contribution towards its demise. It would be less damaging to drop the legislation, difficult though this might be, than to go on with this dog's breakfast of a bill.

Honour a patient's request to die without judgement.

Nurses who hear a patient asking for assisted dying should really listen. It is wrong to ignore an authentic request, or dismiss it with 'you don't really mean that'.

Asylum seekers: a health professional perspective.

The authors examine the situation of asylum seekers and refugees in the UK to enable health professionals to provide access to health care, effective communication and appropriate assessment and referral for this group.