Providing nurses with better training in the use of equipment to detect COPD, could ensure patients are diagnosed earlier, according to the Institute of Education at the University of London.
The...
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) will launch a 'tough' system of checks on care home providers this week.
In a bid to develop an early warning system to offset the failure of care homes, the CQC...
More than a third of oncologists and haematologists in Scotland are aware of cancer patients relocating England for 'better' treatment.
According to a study of 28 consultants by research firm...
All children age two will be offered a nasal flu vaccine from September, instead of the following year as originally proposed.
The public would support charges for NHS patients who require treatment as a result of 'inappropriate' lifestyle choices, such as smoking or obesity, according to research from independent health...
Providers of cosmetic surgery should present a record of implants and cosmetic operations to patients undergoing procedures and to their GP, an independent review into cosmetic interventions has...
The RCN has pledged to fight employers who attempt to undermine nurses' terms and conditions, citing the collapse of the south west 'pay cartel' as a cautionary example.
Speaking at the RCN...
District nurses should receive mandatory additional training and clarification of their role to ensure the district nursing service remains relevant, a debate at RCN Congress concluded.
Proposing...
RCN Congress passed an emergency resolution to increase its lobbying to protect the NHS from further privatisation just hours before the House of Lords failed to annul the controversial section 75...
Nurses have voted overwhelmingly to retain the RCN’s dual role of Royal College and trade union, agreeing this makes it a more effective organisation. Despite the recommendation made in the...
In an RCN survey of 8,000 members, 90 per cent of respondents reported staffing levels were not always adequate, with almost a third saying they were rarely or never safe. A total of 91 per cent...
Directors of nursing must be prepared to defend nurses that speak out in the media according to RCN general secretary Dr Peter Carter. He said: ‘It takes a remarkable person to be a nurse and...
The recently appointed chair of the RCN’s Advanced Nurse Practitioner (ANP) Forum has renewed calls for regulation of ANPs. Nurse partner Wendy Fairhurst told RCN Congress: ‘ANPs often...
Nurses are being prevented from caring for their patients because they are drowning in a sea of paperwork, an ICM survey for the RCN, revealed.The increasing burden of administrative work on nurses...
The government is still considering banning company branding on cigarette packets even though it omitted proposals from the Queen's Speech last week Wednesday.
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