The number of items prescribed in the community has increased by over 50% since 2004, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Dr Cheryll Adams, executive director of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), was named in the Health Service Journal's (HSJ) 2015 Clinical Leader List for the second year running.
The NHS must increase spending on community dementia services to relieve the pressures on acute services and long term care providers, a report by the Alzheimer's Society has said.
Six GP practices in Solihull are taking student nurses for placements for the first time in the region.
Nurses could learn a lot from Lucozade, writes Heather Henry. As patients have become more like consumers of health, perhaps a different nursing approach is needed?
England has become the first country in the world to begin a nationally funded MenB immunisation programme.
District and community nurses should assess the health of carers as well as patients, after ONS figures revealed that providing unpaid care negatively impacts general health.
As many as 13% of people who are told that they have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may be misdiagnosed under NICE guidelines for the condition.
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.
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