Health visitors in south Wales set to strike after NHS employer ignores job evaluation appeal
Analysis
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What the National Certified Register will mean for community and primary care nurses.
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Female genital mutilation (FGM) is a hidden crime and a ‘national scandal’, MPs warned earlier this month.
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The decline in district nurse numbers is well known. A fall of 48% between 2000 and 2014 has seen numbers drop below 6,000 full-time roles in England
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Night time service 'helping patients to stay in their preferred place of care and in their preferred place of death'
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Momentum is starting to build among nurses to claim back significant tax and national insurance rebates from money they overpaid while training.
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Everyone champions the role of the health visitor, yet as public health and council budget cuts continue, and universities struggle to fill places on health visiting courses, nu
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Wandsworth Care Coordination Centre delivers individualised support
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Due to pressure on local government to cut spending, HIV drugs have fallen into a commissioning gap and contraception advice is failing. And there are more cuts to come
A leadership training programme devised and delivered by a team in Surrey is improving patient care and boosting the morale of district nurses
The role of the Care Quality Commission is to regulate providers of health and social care
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) (2014) says that more than one in ten women will experience mental health problems during pregnancy and following the birth of a child.
Inhaler treaatment for patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease may appear straightforward, but nurses need to keep close tabs on those in their care to ensure they achieve the best possible results, argues practice nurse Aud-Marit Walker.
Cancer patients across the north west of England are benefiting from reduced waiting times and treatment closer to home thanks to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust’s mobile chemotherapy unit
Community nurses could find their roles and patients changing if a series of new technology trials delivers its aim to modernise the NHS.
Primary care patients with learning disabilities in Doncaster are benefiting from the introduction of GP information resource packs.
By the beginning of this month, the first nurses to use the new revalidation system will have completed their application and maintained their registration.
