Provisional figures from the end of the Health Visitor Implementation Plan, which aimed to have 4200 extra health visitors in post by 2015, was missed by 215.
Nurses must promote physical activity in children to improve their health outcomes, a leading nursing figure has said after a study by the BHF revealed that approximately just a fifth of children...
The high temperatures and travelling associated with summer can lead to a variety of health issues. IN presents a selection of the best clinical articles to help nurses manage the season's impact.
Funding for nursing education needs to be urgently reconsidered say healthcare education professionals.
Nurses and other healthcare professionals should ensure that patients are adequately informed about the risks of the current heatwave in England, PHE has said.
The RCN has launched new guidance to help nurses manage people with iron deficiency anaemia (IDA).
A new test could reduce the number of antibiotics prescribed unnecessarily by as many as 10 million each year, according to a report published by a group of prescribing experts.
Health visitors, school nurses and public health nurses are concerned that they have not been given enough information about revalidation.
All nurses, midwives and doctors have a professional duty to raise concerns about possible failing in the provision of care, as part of new guidance released by the NMC and the GMC.
Community palliative care services are not as effective in relieving pain at the end of life compared to other settings, a report by PHE's National End of Life Care Intelligence Network.
During the debates at RCN Congress, Richard Beauchamp from the RCN Essex branch proposed that the government should not attack unsocial hours pay.
Strike action dominated the discussion on the final day of RCN congress 2015.
Nurses voted yesterday that RCN Council should lobby the government on climate change.
Almost half of nursing staff based in the community have been subjected to abuse during the last two years according to an RCN survey.
Disease-specialist nurses are 'crucial' to the provision of palliative care but may face barriers in providing it, a report by Marie Curie Cancer Care has found.
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