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THE GAZETTE QARANC 31
QARANC Corps Day – Op HERRICK 17B
Dear Ms Duncombe
As the Senior Nursing Officer
for Herrick 17B I am writing on behalf of all QARANC personnel under my Command to thank you for your support and contribution to our QARANC Corps celebrations. It gave us the UK Nursing group the opportunity to inform others of our QARANC history during a church service held within the hospital. We had the longest serving QARANC Nurse and the youngest QARANC HCA narrate the history detailing how the QARANC were founded and all the service they have provided through the years to the present day. This was appreciated by all, especially our US nursing colleagues whose nursing history is short in comparison.
Your generosity with the money you provided allowed us to have a cake specially made displaying the QARANC colours and badge and was quite a feat given our location and proved a great focal point for the photographs. Other refreshments were also purchased making our celebrations something to remember.
The plaque you kindly donated was presented by me to LTC Robert Kent Senior Nursing Officer of 14 Combat Support Hospital, US Army who was very touched by the gesture.
All this would not have been possible without your contribution of a donation made from QARANC HQ Mess fund AMD and I very much appreciate your support.
Chief Nursing Officer for England visits Camp Bastion (Herrick 17)
Defence Nursing Advisor Col David Bates with CNO (E) debating primary health care issues with staff in the UK Role 1 MTF Camp Bastion.
CNO (E) met a wide group of nurses from sexual health, mental health, primary care and the Senior Medical Officer to gain an understanding of health promotion, force health protection and primary care in the deployed force.
CNO (E) talking to coalition operating theatre staff working in the UK Role 3 Camp Bastion.
One of the visit objectives was for CNO (E) to gain an understanding of the integrated approach as part of the Whole Force Concept articulated in FF20.
In particular recruitment and retention of Reserves, placements of Regular staff in NHS units, employment of OGDs in S2O, private contractors and operating with coalition partners (note Danish anaesthetic nurse).
of the DMS to pull together clinical teams from disparate groupings, make them ready to deploy on operations and to deliver a quality product when they get there.
CNO (E) being guided through the Emergency Department in UK R3 BSN by Maj Mari Roden QARANC.
Ms Cummings is trained in Emergency Medicine Nursing and was particularly interested in learning about systems developed by the Defence Medical Services over the last decade in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The importance of quality placements for DMS nurses in specialties such as ED including MERT were discussed.
This visit also helped to inform CNO (E)’s understanding of the care chain for wounded, injured and sick troops to inform her commissioning role in particular commissioning care for veterans.
CNO(E) was impressed by the ability