The DH will be undertaking a week of action to raise the awareness of health protection in nurses and midwives from 24 February - 28 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.
Draft NICE guidance now recommends offering statins to people who have a 10 per cent or a 10-year risk of developing cardiovascular disease (CVD).
Can holidays be rescheduled if you are ill during your break? Graham White explains
Rosemary Cook tells how nursing became a registered profession, improving its standing in the eyes of the public, thanks to a dedicated nurse and a healthy dose of opposition.
I recently spent a fabulous afternoon observing a Queen's Nurse seeing patients in a busy London surgery. She is a highly skilled nurse practitioner (NP) and demonstrated all that is good about the...
Diabetes care for children is getting better, but this improvement needs to happen faster. Better commissioned paediatric services are required.
Over the past couple of weeks it has emerged that GP practices in some areas of the country have reached agreement with NHS England local area teams to take a hiatus on the Quality and Outcomes...
Suneeta Kochhar discusses differential diagnoses and treatment of this commonly seen condition which can affect people's wellbeing.
Nearly three million people in the UK are known to have diabetes and many remain undiagnosed. Jean Watkins discusses some common presentations that can be indicators of undiagnosed diabetes.
Many lives could be saved if healthcare practitioners were more aware of the signs. Gemma Ellis explains further.
Melanie Rogers, Helen Ludkin and Sian Jones describe the best approach to managing this physically and emotionally draining condition.
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