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Call for nurses to become prostate cancer Clinical Champions

​​Leading men’s health charity Prostate Cancer UK is looking for nurses to join its Clinical Champions programme. The new 18-month programme is the first of its kind dedicated to improve care for men...

Chief nurse for adult social care appointed

​Professor Deborah Sturdy is to become the new chief nurse for adult social care, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has announced

Raising awareness of prostate cancer in the BME community

Karen Bonner is Chief Nurse at Buckinghamshire Healthcare NHS Trust. Since her dad died from prostate cancer six years ago, she’s been committed to raising awareness of the disease.

Addressing influenza vaccine effectiveness: cell-based influenza vaccine technology as an option

This symposium is for UK HCPs only and has been developed and organised by Seqirus.

Addressing the burden of influenza in older adults in the UK

This symposium is for UK HCPs only and has been developed and organised by Seqirus.

COVID-19: ‘Landmark moment’ as first NHS patient receives vaccination

The first Pfizer COVID-19 jab in the world has been delivered to an NHS patient, 90-year-old grandmother Margaret Keenan, as the health service begins the biggest vaccination campaign in its history

Workforce: Risk to pandemic recovery due to nursing shortages

Nursing shortfalls, along with the backlog in routine care and growing need for healthcare, are likely to make recovering from the pandemic ‘particularly challenging,’ a new report by the Health...

Infant Allergy

The Infant Allergy series of webinars cover issues from anaphylaxis to cows milk allergy

Managing Eczema – Current Practical Solutions

This series of three CPD accredited webinars is aimed at primary care nurses who care for people with eczema in their day-to-day practice.

More funding to support people with disabilities live independently

An additional £68 million investment to help thousands more disabled people to access grants to improve their homes so they can live independently has been announced by the Department of Health and...

COVID-19: Over one million cases reached by NHS Test and Trace

Contact tracers have now successfully reached more than one million people who have tested positive for coronavirus

COVID-19: UK authorises Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine

The Government has authorised the first COVID-19 vaccine on the independent advice of medicines regulator, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency

NMC Chair to step down

Philip Graf, the NMC’s Chair of Council will step down from the role, the regulator has announced

‘Gamechanging’ blood test for cancer made available by the NHS

​A new blood test, which is claimed can detect over 50 times of cancer at an early state, is to be trialled by the NHS from mid 2021. Health leaders believe that the new Galleri test could eventually...

COVID-19: Infection rate drops to below R1 for the first time since August

The Government announced on Friday afternoon that its R number, which measures the rate of infection from COVID-19 has fallen to below 1 for the first time since August. This means the pandemic is no...

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