Nurse training and nursing per se has to fundamentally change, so that primary care nurses become enablers of health, not fixers when things go wrong, says Heather Henry.
The RCM have announced that they will ballot their members in Northern Ireland over the issue of pay, after a consultation gave a favourable response to industrial action.
Nurses must ensure that patients with diabetes are aware that to claim free prescriptions, they must have a valid medical exemption certificate, or they could face a fine.
Over 30,000 men in the UK are living with advanced, incurable prostate cancer according to research published in the British Journal of Cancer.
The number of children aged 12 and 15 with tooth decay has declined since 2003, figures released by the HSCIC have shown.
The NHS is failing to tap into practice nurses as a key resource in leadership and commissioning says leading GP.
Detail and debate on the anti-vaccine movement, discussed in this book review.
New mothers, children and young people and veterans mental health services will receive a funding boost, George Osborne, Chancellor of the Exchequer, announced on Wednesday.
The inaugural Sir John Crofton Prize for TB nursing has been awarded to a team of TB nurses in Hackney, at a ceremony at the Royal Society of Medicine's annual TB conference on 18 March.
Shona Reade explains how she managed to become a practice nurse within six months of graduating.
The shortage of district nurses in the last 12 years has not reflected policy to shift more care into the community, said RCN general secretary Peter Carter.
The four chief nursing officers (CNOs) in the UK have created a mandate to increase joint working across the four countries.
The Shape of Caring Review, commissioned by Health Education England (HEE) in partnership with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC), was published on 12 March. In the report Lord Willis, Chair of...
Applications for the Florence Nightingale Foundation's travel and research scholarships have opened.
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