Thousands of new healthcare support workers are set to join the NHS, following successful recruitment drives across the country
Routine asymptomatic testing will be paused across remaining settings, including hospitals and care homes, from 31 August as COVID-19 cases continue to fall
Nursing staff in Northern Ireland will join colleagues across the UK as the RCN ballots members on strike action
Social prescriptions, including walking, wheeling and cycling, will be offered by GPs as part of a new trial to improve mental and physical health and reduce disparities across the country, the...
The NHS will become the first healthcare system in the world to use the next generation, bivalent COVID vaccine in early September
Kathy Oxtoby looks at how trauma-informed training at Bradford District Care NHS Foundation Trust is benefiting healthcare practitioners and the population they serve
Independent Nurse and our sister title Practice Nursing are launching a new immunisation nursing CPD conference on 14 September in Hallam Conference Centre, London. This is a free CPD event open to...
As the RCN begins the process of balloting its members on strike action for the first time in its history, Independent Nurse looks at how it has got here
Gary Rutherford, a mental health nurse from Derry, and the RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2022
The move comes after a report from the chairman of the ongoing inquiry into the greatest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, recommended that interim payments should be made ‘without delay’...
Join us at Diabetes Professional Care, the UK’s number one event for diabetes professionals, returning to Olympia London on 16-17 November 2022
The JCVI has recommended that polio vaccine booster doses should be offered to children across London, after the virus was detected in sewage
Staff must be allowed to take regular breaks and stay hydrated as temperatures rise, the RCN has said
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
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