An Overview of Community Intravenous Therapy in the United Kingdom

Jill Kayley is a Community Specialist Nurse in IV therapy, working for the Oxford City NHS Primary Care Trust in the UK. Jill qualified as a Registered Nurse in Oxford in 1980 and worked on the Haematology Unit at the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford until 1986. Jill then moved into community nursing gaining her District Nursing Certificate in 1988. In 1990 she initiated and implemented an ongoing IV training programme for all the community nurses in Oxfordshire. Since then, Jill has developed and managed the Community IV Therapy Service in Oxfordshire. This was the first Community IV therapy service to be developed in the UK and has been fully operational for 12 years, is widely used and enables patients requiring a variety of IV therapies to be treated in the community.

Jill has been on the committee of the Royal College of Nursing IV therapy forum (previously Special Interest Group) since 1995. She is interested in all aspects of IV therapy in the community especially vascular access devices, antimicrobial therapy, chemotherapy and IV training for community nurses. Jill has spoken at many conferences and has had published a number of articles on different aspects of IV therapy in the community. She is currently undertaking an MSc in Autonomous Health Care Practice.