The Health Select Committee's review of how health and social care systems are coping in the tough economic climate, published in January, highlights the need for a radical shake up of how we fund...
As opposition to the Health and Social Care Bill intensifies, there is now a real feeling that the reforms might be in genuine danger.
The government, currently driving the controversial Health and Social Care Bill through Parliament, says nurses can be on the boards of clinical commissioning boards (CCGs), which are replacing PCTs.
Nursing has always been a small world. For all the vast number of nurses in the workforce, it is amazing how often the same names appear, the same faces are seen, and the same organisations feature in...
When, earlier this month, prime minister David Cameron proclaimed that 'nursing needs to be about patients, not paperwork' he provoked anger from nurses keen to point out that understaffing is at the...
In-depth analysis of the latest research. Compiled by Steven Goodrick.
Failure to manage the skin surrounding a leg ulcer can lead to additional problems and discomfort, explains Annemarie Brown
Diabetes is a complex condition that requires extensive monitoring to prevent the development of long-term complications, writes Jill Hill
I lead a nursing team and am finding that staff morale is currently very low, perhaps due to the time and cost-pressures in the NHS.
Nurse engagement and inclusion in commissioning remains patchy, writes Chris Parr
Chief executive of the NMC Professor Dickon Weir-Hughes (pictured), has resigned from his role, citing 'personal reasons' for his decision.
The RCN has become the latest high-profile nursing organisation to publically back Independent Nurse's No Tokenism campaign, which aims to champion nurse involvement in clinical commissioning.
As a Macmillan lung cancer nurse specialist, the majority of patients I see present with late and incurable disease (87 per cent), and most will die with one year. Improvements in cancer waiting times...
Last Wednesday, many nurses from across primary and secondary care opted to strike over the government's proposed pension changes, along with countless other public sector workers. Many other nurses...
After a year-long Right Nurse, Right Skills campaign, and months of data collection and analysis, the QNI launched its new report on community nursing at the House of Lords on 21 November. Nursing...
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