Perhaps the most influential role of primary care nurses in gestational diabetes is in its prevention, writes Dr David Morris
Women with a need for contraception should be given information about and offered a choice of all methods, according to NICE. Contraceptive counselling should be individualised to the woman and her...
In-depth analysis of the latest research, compiled by Mark Greener
At least 50 per cent of student nurses will complete community placements as part of the training by March 2015, in a bid to train a multidisciplinary workforce to work in both hospitals and the...
A 'shocking' local variation in early death rates has been exposed by health secretary Jeremy Hunt to drive public awareness and boost council and NHS action to tackle public health problems.
Nurses should become involved in clinical commissioning because they know about local population needs, write Katherine Leach and Alison Burton Shepherd
Tucked away in a narrow street in Clerkenwell, London WC1, is the headquarters of the Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI), the small-but-influential charity dedicated to improving the nursing care of...
Why did you become a nurse?
This may sound like a cliché but I genuinely wanted to care for people and felt nursing would give me this opportunity to work with people who need care.
I believed...
NHS Trust HR director Graham White offers advice on employment issues affecting nurses
Ministers have pledged that people will not have to pay 'astronomical care costs', following the publication of the Care Bill.
Homeless people are to receive more help and support once they are discharged from hospital, following a roll-out of £10 million in government funding.
There was a 300 per cent rise in hepatitis C deaths from liver disease or liver cancer between 1996 and 2010 in the UK. If untreated, 15,840 people in England could develop cirrhosis or liver cancer...
A vaccine allowing people to live longer before developing type 1 diabetes could be available within 20 years, according to Diabetes UK.
NHS England is planning a major relaunch of Choose and Book which, it is hoped, will make electronic referrals 'universally and easily available' to patients and their health professionals for all...
The government should encourage schemes to help make older drugs available on the NHS at a cost that the drug industry would find 'too low', according to 2020Health.
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