The Cumberlege Report (1986) or Neighbourhood nursing: a focus for care was the report of a Department of Health and Social Security (DHSS) committee advocating that community nurses in the United Kingdom be permitted to prescribe from a restricted list of treatments.
A committee was created in 1985 by the DHSS to review the care provided by nurses and health visitors outside hospitals and report on how resources could be used more effectively.
The Report stated that patient care would be improved and resources used more effectively if nurses were able to prescribe items from a limited list.
[1] In 1989, the Department of Health created a committee with Dr June Crown as chair, to examine nurse prescribing.
'[4] The Crown Report noted that patients particularly likely to benefit from changes were those with a catheter or stoma, those with postoperative wounds, and homeless people not registered with a general practitioner.