... the implications to practitioners working within children's nursing this paper aims to redress the imbalance. Implications for children's nurses It has been argued that this pluralistic vision of healthcare is nothing new. The complexity of individual health in a public and social context has always needed a mixed economy of provision (Ackers & Abbott, 1996). In the context of children in as early as the 1950's prominent psychologists such as Bowlby suggested that uni-institutional and professional provision of services was dehumanising. Historically the profession of children's nursing has fought hard to gain professional autonomy. The Court Report (DOH, 1976) formally recognised the importance of a dedicated profession with specialist knowledge in the needs of children. Court reiterated and extended the recommendations of the Platt Report (Ministry of Health, 1959) stressing the need for specialist, dedicated children's nurses. Interprofessional collaboration could therefore be viewed to be somewhat erosive and diluting ...

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