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Will practice nurses be recognised in 2016?

Will this be the year when primary care becomes a priority, asks Crystal Oldman

Do you feel prepared for revalidation?

There are only three more days left to answer our short survey on revalidation. Make sure your voice is heard

Serious lack of practice nurses in leadership roles finds QNI

Just 1.6% of practice nurses are nurse partners in a GP practice according to research from the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI)

Profiles of local authorities' hypertension performance launched

New data profiles that will allow service providers to compare rates of high blood pressure and hypertension between local authorities have been launched by PHE

Smoking cessation services suffer in face of budget cuts

Smoking cessation budgets in nearly 40% of local authorities in England have been cut, according to research by Action on Smoking and Health (ASH).

Thawing the NHS's Winter of Discontent

Is the NHS experiencing its own moment of 1970s-style union militancy, asks Mike Shallcross

New tuberculosis guideline focuses on improving uptake of BCG vaccine

Recommendations to improve the uptake of the BCG vaccination have been included in new tuberculosis (TB) guidelines published by NICE.

The culture of blame must change

Nurses must work to support each other to speak up, writes Bernadette Higgins.

The new cost of patient care

The government wants to abolish student bursaries, but nurses are biting back. Seeta Bhardwa reports

Sugar tax to be introduced in the NHS

The price of sugary food and drink will be raised on all NHS properties Simon Stevens, the chief executive of NHS England has announced.

Lack of clinical nurse specialists for women with ovarian cancer

Women with ovarian cancer are not getting access to the right specialist nurses, analysis by Target Ovarian cancer has shown.

Health checks are successfully identifying CVD incidents

Major cardiovascular incidents are being reduced thanks to the NHS Health Checks according to the first analysis of the programme run by Public Health England (PHE).

Overseas nurses barred from the UK despite chronic staff shortages

Thousands of nurses were denied permission to work in the UK last year an FOI request from the Royal of College of Nursing (RCN) has revealed.

Managing non-complex burns

Each year, approximately 130,000 people present at A&E with burns injuries, and 10,000 are admitted

Over a quarter of UK adults suffer mental illness

Approximately 26% of adults in the UK have experienced mental illness, according to figures produced by the HSCIC.

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