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Charity appeals for nurses and midwives to do 10k Their Way to help colleagues

The Cavell Trust has issued its annual call for nurses to support colleagues in need, by taking part in the 10k Their Way campaign.

Government continues to bury its head in the sand over social care, says RCN

The Government’s long-promised plan to fix social care has been slammed by the RCN, for not addressing low pay and critical staff shortages in the sector

Nurses and midwives feel ‘unprepared and unsupported’ in first roles

Many newly qualified nurses and midwives say they feel unprepared for their first job due to missed learning as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey from UNISON has found

Veterans’ mental health services to receive £2.7 million boost

Armed forces veterans will benefit from extra support including extra mental health services due to £2.7 million funding, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced

RCN Congress 2021 to be held exclusively online

This year’s RCN congress will take place virtually, after the organisation’s Council members decided this was the best way to safeguard members, after allegations of serious sexual harassment came to...

COVID-19: Initiative boosts ethnic minority vaccinations

The ‘grab-a-jab’ campaign by NHS England has vaccinated more than 700,000 people from ethnic minority backgrounds since rolling out

NAFLD and its link with type-2 diabetes: why we should be worried

Louise Cremonesini and Emma Harkin look at this increasingly common form of liver disease

Managing obesity in individuals with type 2 diabetes

David Morris looks at how nurses can advise overweight patients with diabetes

Advocating for patients

Nicola Davies looks at how nurses can use their position to speak up for patients

COVID-19's impact on care homes was not inevitable

What national policymakers do to protect people who use and provide adult social care still matters – and the scale of the impact of COVID-19 on social care was not inevitable

Care beyond medicine

Kathy Oxtoby looks at how social prescribing offers a new holistic approach to public health

COVID-19: Antibody therapy approved for UK use

A new coronavirus treatment has been approved for use in the UK

Patients urged to get ‘life-saving’ cancer checks

New NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard has called for patients to be checked for cancer

High number of ‘likely overdoses’ reported

There has been a sharp rise in the number of overdoses linked to people using drugs in several areas across England, Public Health England has warned

Ignoring the voice of nursing ‘puts patient safety at risk’, says RCN

The RCN has warned that low morale in the nursing workforce could endanger patients, as the union launches its consultation on pay

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