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Government reforms ‘could improve care services for patients’

Proposals for reforms of the NHS and social care have the potential to improve the delivery of care services for patients, a report by the parliamentary Health and Social Care Committee has found

COVID-19: New measures to combat ‘Indian variant’

The Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has outlined new actions to control the coronavirus variant first identified in India which is beginning to spread in the UK

Understanding grief in nursing

How does the grieving process affect the working life of a nurse?

Dismay as Queen’s Speech contains little to aid social care

The Government has been heavily criticised by healthcare organisations after plans for social care reform were almost entirely absent from the Queen’s Speech

Nurses’ response to COVID-19 pandemic hailed

The response of nurses and other healthcare workers to the outbreak of COVID-19 has been celebrated as part of International Nurses Day

Public’s concerns on staffing to be addressed by new standards

Seven in 10 people believe there are too few nurses to deliver safe care, according to a new poll commissioned to coincide with the RCN’s launch of the first nurse workforce standards

Freedom from Failure – the F Word

Raising awareness of heart failure amongst patients

Highest alcohol deaths in England and Wales for 20 years

The number of deaths linked to alcohol in 2020 was the highest since 2001, data from the Office for National Statistics shows

COVID-19: New testing centre to fast-track variant vaccines

Vaccines tailored to tackle COVID-19 variants are to be accelerated through new state-of-the-art labs, Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced

A day in the life of...

Joanne Reynard, the nurse manager of a vaccination centre at Leeds United’s football ground

The invisible pandemic: Antimicrobial resistance

Graham Cope looks at how antibiotic resistant bacteria have fared during the coronavirus pandemic

Smoking cessation and serious mental illness

Graham Cope explains how people with mental health conditions can be encouraged to quit smoking

District nurse qualifications rise by nearly a quarter

The annual figure of district nurses qualifying in 2020 rose from 554 to 675, equating to an overall increase of 22% from 2018/19, the Annual District Nurse Education Report from the QNI has found

Calls for investment in midwives’ pay

Investing in midwifery services also means improving pay conditions, the Royal College of Midwives has said as part of International Day of the Midwife celebrations

COVID-19: 50 million doses of vaccine administered in UK

More than 34 million people have had at least one jab while 15 million have had both doses of the vaccine, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced

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