Five per cent of health professionals think the healthcare reforms have had a positive effect, according to a survey by parliamentary communications group Dods.
The DH has released guidance on the use of emergency inhalers in schools.
Mental health should receive greater investment and funding protection, Professor Dame Sally Davies, the chief medical officer, said in her annual report.
A recent paper in The Lancet (volume 382:331-7) found that two-thirds of women in the UK were iodine deficient during pregnancy, placing them at risk of gestational hypothyroxinemia (abnormally low...
The University of Hertfordshire has piloted a successful project that places undergraduate student nurses in general practice placements.
The president of the RCN has received an honorary doctorate from the University of Lincoln for her contribution to nursing.
Dr Marina Lupari is the RCN's new professional lead for primary and community care. In an exclusive interview, she tells Rita Som what drives her, what needs to be done and why she is best placed to...
<strong>'Ghost patients' removed from GP lists</strong>
Nearly 12,000 patients have been taken off GP registers by managers, in an NHS England initiative to reduce the number of inactive patients.
In the Independent Nurse survey respondents were asked whether their capacity to care was impacted by the workload and 44 per cent answered yes.
Of those that answered yes, 84 per cent said that...
Last week IN was among the first to meet the RCN's new professional lead for primary and community care. Marina Lupari won an RCN Frontline First Innovation award in 2011 for her work redesigning a...
The number of complaints against nursing, midwifery and health visiting services has fallen since 2012, according to figures from HSCIC.
Data on Written Complaints in the NHS 2013/14 revealed that...
Community midwives are under pressure because forty per cent of women are discharged from hospital before they are ready, according to an RCM report.
'This places a strain on all midwives but...
Over 80 per cent of primary care nurses work overtime as a result of the government's agenda, an exclusive survey by Independent Nurse has revealed.
In a survey of 408 primary care nurses, made up...
Ed Miliband will position the NHS as one of the central issues in Labour's election campaign.
He is thought to want to exempt the NHS from Labour's planned deficit cuts by designating borrowing...
Practice nurses should inform women of the risks of overdiagnosis from breast cancer screening, according to Cancer Research UK.
Jessica Kirby, senior health information manager at Cancer Research...
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