Effective pain therapy can make a considerable difference to quality of life, says Beverley Bostock-Cox
HEE has produced a short film to support the improvement of patient safety, as part of the Commission on Education and Training for Patients.
Specialist nurses can be used to increase efficiency and cut costs said nursing lecturer.
Healthcare unions such as the RCM and Unison have voted to accept the government's offer of a consolidated 1% pay rise.
Up to 80% of people with asthma may have winter hayfever, which is being mistaken for the common cold, which could increase the risk of an asthma attack, says Asthma UK.
The chance of developing genetic mutations in blood cells that can lead to leukaemia increases as a person gets older, a study published in Cell Reports has found.
Dr Dennis Gillings, the world dementia envoy, opening the Global Dementia Legacy Event on 19 June 2014.
A new law that prohibits driving while under the influence of several commonly prescribed drugs has come into force today.
Nurses should take a careful history and follow this with diagnostic testing, explains Suneeta Kochhar
On 16 February, I had the privilege of chairing the QNI's conference on district nursing in the digital age. Nearly 200 delegates filled the room for what had been termed 'an accelerated learning...
Almost 70% of nurses polled in England admit they frequently delay discharging older patients as there is no support for them outside hospital.
When NHS England's Five Year Forward View was released in October 2014, many of the recommendations put primary care nurses at the centre of the NHS overhaul.
A toolkit to help nurses recognise suicidal tendencies in lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) young people is due for release this spring.
Technology can offer district nursing, and primary care nursing in general, many benefits, including more productive use of time, improved communication, better patient access, remote observation of...
A conference on ways to measure and manage quality in mental healthcare will be held on 23 March at the ICO conference centre in London.
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