Financial hardship (Matter for Discussion)

Glass jar lying on its side with coins spilling out. Submitted by the RCN Public Health Forum.
That this meeting of RCN Congress discusses the role of nursing in addressing financial hardship and poverty.

More information can be found on the RCN Congress pages: https://www.rcn.org.uk/congress/agenda-2022

Please see below for some relevant resources you might like to look at ahead of the debate.

Marshall L, Finch D, Cairncross L and Bibby J (2018) The nation's health as an asset. The Health Foundation.
Marmot M (2015) The health gap: the challenge of an unequal world. London: Bloomsbury.
Rosa W and others (2021) Nurses for health equity.
Royal College of Nursing (2021) Leaving no one behind: the role of the nursing profession in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals in the UK.

Cable C (2018) Protecting patients from financial scams, Nursing Standard, 33(9), p. 13.
Families with children see their finances hit hardest by pandemic (2021), Community Practitioner, 94(3), p8.
Goodwin S (2022) Food aid charities fear the worst as the cost of living crisis takes hold, British Medical Journal, 376, p.416
Inclusion health: nurse-led interventions addressing health inequalities during Covid-19 (2021), Journal of Community Nursing, 35 (2), pp. 60-66
Limb M (2022) Failure to protect the cost of living will increase poverty and health inequalities warn analysts, British Medical Journal, 376, pp.794
Scheffer M and others (2019) Student nurses’ attitudes to social justice and poverty: an international comparison, Nurse Education Today, 80, pp.59-66
Scott A (2022) Families feel the pinch, Community Practitioner, 95(1), pp.14-16
Ungpakron R, Sehmbi K and MacLaine K (2021) Taking advanced clinical practice to the streets: an evaluation of the benefits and challenges in homeless health care, British Journal of Nursing, 30 (20), pp. 1184-1188
Waters J (2020) Health equality: can it ever be reached?, Community Practitioner, 93(3), pp.34-39