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...
The school nurse may be the first person that a young person chooses to speak to about mental health problems, according to mental health charity Time to Change.
A survey by the charity found that...
Suicide prevention should be part of every nurse's basic education, many in the profession believe. But can non-specialist nurses be given the confidence to broach the subject with their patients? And...
A 'Seize Control' toolkit has been produced by Epilepsy Action, to support specialist nurses and practice nurses with patients who continue to have seizures despite taking medication.
The toolkit...
One person dies from suicide every 40 seconds according to WHO's first global report on suicide prevention. This equates to more than 800,000 people globally every year.
Globally suicide rates are...
I was at Heathrow, returning from holiday when my sister phoned to tell me that our father was dying. I rushed home to find the out of hours GP trying to persuade my sister that 'the best place for...
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