The recently published NHS England Five Year Forward View provides a great opportunity for nurses working in community and primary care services to become involved, if not to take the lead in the...
Our practice manager has said that some of us will have to work some of the bank holidays over Christmas and New Year. Is my new practice allowed to make me work bank holidays?
Nurses should expect that women will search the internet for information during pregnancy or about their children's health, according to American researchers who interviewed 42 women.
Many guidelines suggest gradual weight loss, reflecting the widespread view that 'weight lost rapidly is more quickly regained'. However, a new Australian study - which enrolled 51 men and 153 women...
Behavioural weight loss interventions delivered in primary care produce only 'very small reductions in body weight, which are unlikely to be clinically significant,' according to a meta-analysis of 15...
'Nurses should be aware of the high prevalence of type D personality and the effects on symptom control and quality of life in asthma patients,' a Korean paper has concluded.
With up to 85% of prescribing of antibiotics in England taking place in primary care and community settings, nurses working in these settings are in a unique position to drive the preservation of one...
Endometriosis is a condition in which hormonally responsive endometrial tissue is found outside the uterus, resulting in chronic inflammation.1 Endometriosis is generally confined to women of...
Children's body shape constantly changes as they grow and transition from baby through to adolescent.
Pancreatic cancer remains a disease where more than 80 per cent of patients are diagnosed at a point when there is no option for curative treatment. Indeed, Pancreatic Cancer Awareness Month in...
Port wine naevus: A capillary malformation in the skin that affects 0.1 to two per cent of the population. It follows a genetic mutation.
European Antibiotic Awareness Day (EAAD), which aims to raise awareness about antibiotic resistance, will take place on 18 November.
Three different reports published in the last two weeks have highlighted the need to rethink primary care and the role of primary care nurses in order to make the NHS sustainable.
It's funny how these things seem to happen over night. One minute general practice nursing is a forgotten backwater of the profession to all but those working in it, the next, all eyes are on primary...
Hypertension had the highest number of registered patients (7.7 million) according to the Quality and Outcomes Framework (QOF) annual report.
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