Medications used to control blood pressure can increase the risk of injury from serious fall by 30 to 40 per cent, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine.
Nine out of ten NHS staff think their role makes a difference, states a survey carried out by NHS Employers.
Over 90 per cent of nurses believe that encouraging nurses to prescribe could increase the efficiency of primary care, according to a survey by Independent Nurse.
The first NHS England (London) drop-in cancer clinic was opened in a local community centre in Haringey, London, in early February.
Primary care nurses from across the country gathered at Alexandra Palace in London for the first Primary Care Nursing Expo (PCN Expo) run by MA Healthcare Conferences on 7 and 8 February 2014.
Changes to community and other primary care services are needed to move more care out of hospitals and into people's homes, says a report published by The King's Fund this month.
The number of people using insulin to treat diabetes trebled between 1991 and 2010, researchers from the Universities of Bristol and Cardiff have found.
The study, published in the Journal of...
Arthritis Research UK has given almost £50,000 of funding to a research group at the Royal Cornwall and Truro Hospital to improve the knowledge of arthritis among district nurses, practice nurses and...
Working parties are preparing guidelines on how to improve spirometry in primary care after figures have shown that patients most frequently consult primary care about respiratory problems.
The fortnightly round up of key political and clinical news for primary care and community nurses.
Culture change has circled the NHS for a while. Seeta Bhardwa asks how can it be achieved?
The first set of results for maternity services for the friends and family test (FFT) have been published.
Community nursing teams in Bristol have implemented mobile working successfully, Bristol Community Health (BCH) said. It is one of the first NHS providers to have rolled out mobile working across the...
Over half of frontline NHS staff in England have had flu vaccinations this winter, according to the flu fighter campaign, run annually by the NHS Employers organisation.
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