In each issue we investigate a hot topic currently affecting you and your community practice. Here, Jason Beckford-Ball looks at the UK’s decision to leave the European Union and asks 'What will Brexit mean for community nurses?

he days immediately following the Brexit vote felt a bit like the day after a wedding reception — the balloons had all been popped; the drunken uncles and aunts had been put into taxis; and the cake crumbs and smashed glasses had being swept from the dancefloor. Now it was time to forget the speeches and the promises and get on with the rest of our lives.