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District nursing: urgent need for more investment

The number of district nurses working in the NHS has dropped by almost 43% in England alone in the last ten years, according to a new report by the QNI and the RCN

21st century healthcare, 19th century access

Why, in this high-tech era, are people queueing in the rain for a GP appointment?

Staffing crisis must end, says RCN chief executive

The Government must end the shortage of nurses in England by returning the £1 billion it took from nursing education, Dame Donna Kinnair, the new RCN chief executive said in her first speech to the...

Concerns raised about acne drug

Campaigners are calling for the NHS to stop prescribing the acne treatment Roaccutane, after the drug was linked to suicides

Bowel cancer: Sharp rise in young people

More young people under 50 are being diagnosed with bowel cancer, studies of the condition have found

UK should make MMR vaccination mandatory, say Italian researchers

New research has strongly recommended that the UK adopt a ‘no jab, no school policy’ on MMR

Social care: Shortfalls creating ‘care deserts’

About 30% of areas now have no residential care beds for elderly people, creating ‘care deserts’, an analysis carried out for Age UK indicates

Homeless health: new fund to help rough sleepers

A new £1.9 million fund to support initiatives aiming to improve the health of homeless people has been launched by PHE

Thyroid drugs overprescribed

Hundreds of thousands of people in the UK are being prescribed thyroid drugs unnecessarily, according to research published in the BMJ

New NICE guidelines recommend 'watch and wait' approach on prostate cancer

New guidance from NICE on prostate cancer has recommended active surveillance for the first time, for men with the low-risk localised form of the disease

The end of HIV, and what it teaches us

An observational study of 1000 gay couples in the Lancet showed that HIV-positive patients treated with antiretroviral therapy (ART), reduced their risk of passing the virus on to zero. Is this the...

Dying Matters: why we must learn to talk about the end

Why we must learn to talk about preparing for death, and its implications

Seeing nurses lead the way in primary care

Nurses have the right skills and knowledge to lead the way as primary care services evolve

First sustained fall in general practitioner numbers in 50 years

The number of GPs in the UK per 100,000 people has fallen from nearly 65 in 2014 to 60 last year, analysis by the Nuffield Trust has found

Nurse numbers at record high, but workplace challenges remain, says NMC

Around 8000 more nurses, midwives and nursing associates are now registered to work in the UK compared to 12 months ago, according to latest figures published by the NMC

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