I had the pleasure of attending the NHS Health and Care Innovation Expo in Manchester, on Monday 3 March (the week before this magazine went to presss) - it proved to be a valuable day for learning...
A report in The Lancet recently highlighted the link between a nurse's level of qualification and the lowered risk of inpatient mortality was striking, and a clear vindication of the move to an all...
Our hard surfaces are wiped, our hands are scrubbed raw, we're laminated and shiny, our jewellery is off, our hand gel on.
The first round of recipients for NHS England's Nursing Technology Fund have been announced.
The Independent Commission on Whole Person Care for the Labour Party has stated that health and social care needs to be integrated without another structural reorganisation in the NHS, in a report.
Prime Minister David Cameron has appointed a World Dementia Envoy to help speed up research into the condition, the Department of Health has announced.
A new degree-level apprenticeship for healthcare assistants will be developed by a group of NHS organisations, nursing representative bodies and private providers to widen access to nursing the...
The fortnightly roundup of key political and clinical news for primary care and community nurses.
NHS Change Day is a grassroots initiative set up by two doctors to inspire people to improve NHS services through pledges to make everyday changes or improvements that will transform the NHS from the...
The Kate Granger Awards recognises compassionate care in nursing. Seeta Bhardwa looks at the winners.
Seeta Bhardwa looks at research into how primary care nurses feel about the prescribing role.
The NHS has been left with almost 4000 fewer senior nursing staff than in 2010, according to the latest Frontline First Report published today by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN).
District nurses may take on the care of elderly patients instead of GPs, health minister Dan Poulter has suggested.
The RCGP has predicted that 34 million patients in England could fail to get an appointment with a practice nurse or their GP because of the slump in funding for general practice.
Nurses in between pay bands on Agenda for Change will not receive the one per cent living cost pay rise that has been promised to healthcare professionals at the top of their pay bands.
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