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Lead nurses cast concerns over health visiting service

Cuts to local authority budget cuts could reverse the progress made by the health visitor implementation plan, a group of leading health figures said in an open letter to The Times

Keeping mental health out of prisons

Many offenders may be better off in care not custody, writes Alex Turnbull

Nursing across borders

Nursing and midwifery is high on the World Health Organization's (WHO) agenda, writes Howard Catton

Devon community hospitals face closure

​Plans to consult on local community health services in Devon could mean the closure of clinical hospitals in the area.

UK medical eligibility criteria for contraceptive use

Suneeta Kochhar outlines changes to contraceptive advice for women with varying medical conditions

The PrEP dilemma - risk and reward

Mike Shallcross contemplates the implications of the PrEP drug for HIV

Petition urges government to tackle 'breaking point' in district nursing

A petition has been started urging the government to tackle the district nursing shortage

Lead nurse allays fears for non-patient facing clinicians

Non-patient facing nurses concerned about providing evidence for their revalidation portolios may be reassured by a new briefing paper

Workplace stress affects nearly 90% of primary care staff

Almost 90% of primary care staff, including practice nurses and GPs, find their work stressful according to new research by Mind

Millions of historical nursing records have been digitised

More than 1.5 million nurses records from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) have been digitsed by family history website Ancestry

NICE panel is searching for a community nurse

The NICE Centre for Guidelines is looking for community nurses and senior level nursing professionals to join the expert panel

The need-to-know on the PrEP Judicial Review

On 2 August the high court ruled that NHS England had acted unlawfully in removing PrEP, the HIV prevention drug, from its commissioning process in March

Majority of patients can access Parkinson's nurses

Some 94% of people with Parkinson's were able to access a Parkinson's specialist nurse, according to the largest ever Parkinson's services audit

Cost of diabetes doubles over 10 years

The bill for items prescribed to patients with diabetes has nearly doubled since 2005, data from the HSCIC has found

Anti-HIV treatment approved by High Court

NHS England has been instructed that it can fund the use of pre-exposure prophylaxis drugs (PrEP), which can prevent HIV, after a judicial review by the High Court

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