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Racism in the NHS is rampant: nurses demand action

We have spoken to hundreds of ethnic minority background participants working in frontline health and social care roles with shocking stories of racism at work

Candidates for RCN President election announced

RCN members will choose from four candidates when they vote for the organisation’s new President later this year

RCN members urged to support industrial action in strike ballot over NHS pay

Hundreds of thousands of nursing staff in England and Wales will soon have the chance to vote on whether to take strike action

Chronic oedema: assessment, compression and monitoring

Jeanette Muldoon looks at what nurses need to know about this often distressing condition

Advising patients on physical activity and asthma

Heather Henry explains how nurses can provide information on how exercise can affect patients with asthma

Archie Battersbee and the limits of law

The court cases around the end of Archie's life were a minus sum game with no possible winners

Understanding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Poppy Brooks looks at how to diagnose and manage this common cause of heart failure

More than 2500 cases of monkeypox reported in the UK

Over 2500 cases of monkeypox have now been recorded by the UK Health Security Agency

Sharp fall in numbers of pregnant smokers after new NHS drive

Almost 15,000 pregnant women in England managed to quit smoking over the last three years, new analysis shows today

Major boost to youth mental health workforce

Around 4,500 more people have joined the NHS children’s mental health services in England – 40% more than before the pandemic

Outrage as PM hopeful suggests ending national pay deals

Frontrunner to replace Boris Johnson as Prime Minister Liz Truss briefly suggested that, if elected, she would end national pay deals for public sector staff, a move branded an ‘insult to nursing...

Sharp increase in nursing sickness absences

Days lost to sickness absence from COVID-19 among nursing staff jumped dramatically from February to March 2022, data from NHS England has shown

NHS sets out long COVID action plan

Patients with long-lasting symptoms from COVID will have access to more convenient tests and checks closer to home, under new measures announced by NHS England

Persistent understaffing of NHS a serious risk to patient safety

The NHS is facing the greatest workforce crisis in its history, a report by the House of Commons Health and Social Care Select Committee has found

Accelerated monkeypox vaccination rollout in London announced

The NHS in London, along with local public health teams, will be accelerating the rollout of the monkeypox vaccine from this week, prioritising individuals who are most likely to get the virus

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