Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
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This article explores the challenges involved in providing practice learning opportunities for pre-registration nursing students in community settings, espe
Child poverty levels are a significant challenge and can lead to poor health outcomes throughout life.
When a baby’s head has become flattened, either on one side, causing the head to look asymmetrical and distorted, or the whole back of the head has become f
The Royal College of Nursing digital rectal examination (DRE) document has been revised and updated to incorporate the most recent best practice in bowel ca
This article is aimed at all those involved with immunisation.
Brownlow Health is an inner-city practice in Liverpool. It has a high homeless population of whom many are hepatitis C-positive.
On average 60 per cent of men and 75 per cent of women visit their GP annually for a consultation.
The study reported in this article was undertaken in response to the participation of a general practice in the National Chlamydia Screening Programme (
In January 2012 the Royal College of Nursing’s advanced nurse practitioner (ANP) forum started a project to involve patients in prescribing decisions.
This article discusses patient involvement in prison health care using an initiative developed and implemented at HM Prison Leeds.
This article reviews the literature underpinning interventions to manage colic with a particular focus on dietary modifications, pharmacology interventions,
Scleroderma is a spectrum of disorders comprising diseases predominantly vascular in origin, such as Raynaud’s phenomenon, and more fibrotic in origin, such
Aim To evaluate the prescribing decisions of community matrons using a validated tool and answer the question: is community matron independent nurse prescribing as safe and effective as that of GPs in terms of clinical appropriateness and cost effectiveness?
Preventing foot problems in people with diabetes has been a priority in the UK over the past ten years, but research highlighting a lack of specialist diabetes footcare teams shows that one quarter of diabetics do not get a foot check.
In the past two years there has been a drive to increase the role of detoxification in substance misuse services, using a recovery-led model. There has also been a move towards increased community prescribed detoxification regimens, with primary care playing a leading role.
Aim The aim of the study was to investigate public health nurses’ interaction with families in the child health clinic setting where the mother is at risk of postnatal depression.
