The tobacco industry is using smartphone apps - a medium that can reach children - to promote its products, in violation of World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (WHO...
The Government has launched a roll-out of telehealth, the use of electronic information and technology to help people manage their health independently, as a way of giving those with long-term...
Levels of satisfaction and wellbeing among NHS staff have a direct impact on patients' experiences of healthcare, according to the National Nursing Research Unit (NNRU) at King's College, London.
District nurses are vulnerable to cuts by organisations 'desperate to save money' because they are 'individually more expensive than less experienced staff', the RCN has warned.
Changes to national NHS terms and conditions under AfC could see nurses' pay rises linked to performance and the removal of sickness pay during unsocial hours, from March next year.
Some 24,000 people die prematurely every year in England because their diabetes has not been managed effectively, according to a Public Accounts Committee report.
Nurses at NHS Direct face uncertainty over their jobs, following claims from health union Unison that NHS Direct is set to close 24 of its 30 call centres. However, NHS Direct said it had not yet made...
All babies are to be vaccinated against rotavirus from September next year, in a bid to cut hospital stays and free up 'hundreds of thousands' of GP visits.
The NMC will re-elect its council next year, to 'allow it to focus on strategic leadership and decision making and to hold the NMC's executive to account'.
Practice nurses could be better linked to multidisciplinary teams (MDTs) and there should be better communication between secondary and primary care, according to the UK Lung Cancer Coalition...
Nurses should warn patients taking the antiplatelet drug ticagrelor (which treats acute coronary syndromes, such as unstable angina and myocardial infarction) to avoid grapefruit juice, according to...
A greater focus on nurse leadership is needed to break down the barriers to nurse-led clinical practice, according to Dr Peter Carter, chief executive and general secretary of the RCN.
A smart phone to help widen access to HIV testing in GP surgeries, pharmacies, community settings, and developing countries, is one of the five projects that have been awarded funding from the...
The number of nurses in the NHS has decreased by more than 7,000 since May 2010, according to an RCN analysis of NHS workforce statistics.
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