NHS Trust HR director Graham White offers advice on employment issues affecting nurses
Conflict resolution can be aided by clarifying perceptions of the conflict and conflicting parties, building shared positive power, and developing 'do-ables', writes Caroline Forrest
Loneliness contributes to poor health and should be viewed as a public health issue,writes Cate Wood
The NHS can learn from other countries that are successfully moving care out of hospitals, writes David Woods
Mental health problems affect one in four people and nine in 10 will be seen in primary care. But people still experience discrimination when using general practice.
This is my last edition as editor of Independent Nurse and I would like to thank the many inspirational primary care and community nurses with whom I have worked.
The QNI has been calling for an increase in the number of qualified district nurses for the last two years through our Right Nurse, Right Skills campaign. We also recently undertook a piece work to...
Clinicians must be competent to apply compression therapies and know when to seek advice, writes Lee Yarwood-Ross
Primary care nurses are ideally placed to help men with the spectrum of prostatic diseases, writes Ian Peate
Most squamous cell carcinoma develop in elderly, fair-skinned men, although there are other factors that may predispose a patient to the condition, including excess alcohol intake,writes Dr Jean...
Dr Suneeta Kochhar provides an overview of considerations for patients with asthma
or COPD who plan to travel abroad
In-depth analysis of the latest research, compiled by Mark Greener
Patients with timely access to general practice appointments make fewer visits to A&E
Researchers from Imperial College London related A&E attendance in England to a national survey of patients'...
A league table for England showing 'shocking' local variation in early death rates must drive action to improve public health, health secretary Jeremy Hunt has urged.
Public Health England's...
The number of district nurses in training is nowhere near the 'replacement level' required to maintain the district nursing workforce, according to the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI)
The QNI...
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