ISR has just helped the churches in Brislington and St Anne's to appoint Bristol's first Parish Nurse.

This marks the culmination of a lot of hard work by the churches, and also ISR staff, to learn about parish nursing in the first palce, and then to develop an approach that will benefit the local churches involved.

Parish nursing is not new, but it is new to Bristol. The basic idea is to provide a means for recognising and responding to people's physical and spiritual health, and which links directly to people who attend local churches.

Importantly, Parish Nursing is a professional health care programme of work.

A day conference on Saturday 24th March 2012 to explore the distinctive contribution of the Christian faith to the shaping of a new, post financial crisis, economic order. This conference is for anyone who has an interest in the links between faith and economics, including academics, local church leaders, those involved in Christian social enterprises/co-operatives, trade unions, economic justice activists etc.