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Children’s spacers for the treatment of asthma: top ten tips

In this article, Heather Henry provides a quick overview of what you need to know about children’s use of spacers, with reference to the latest evidence

Guarding the glomerulus: Diabetes and the kidney

Beverley Bostock explains how missing a routine kidney test could harm diabetes patients

Supporting adherence to the UK’s Eatwell Guide in the general public

Sara Patience looks at how improvements to the nation’s diet could reduce the impact of chronic illness

The COPD review – taking a holistic approach in primary care

Beverley Bostock details the risks of malnutrition in the treatment of COPD, and how to treat it

Government must invest in nursing students to fix workforce crisis

A new report from the Royal College of Nursing demonstrates the urgent need for investment in nursing students

Pay discussions should be brought forward, say unions

Negotiations over renumeration should be brought forward so that pay deals due to expire in 2021 can be replaced with a pay rise sooner, healthcare unions have said.

Turning compassion inwards

During a time of crisis, Nicola Davies looks at how nurses can take care of their own mental health

How to help nurses... and the economy

So here is a modest proposal from the back of an envelope at IN: a £2000 one-off bonus for every NHS worker. It would be politically popular, boost morale, and be relatively simple to administer....

Sharp increase in staff thinking of leaving nursing

There has been a notable rise in the proportion of nursing staff considering quitting the profession, driven primarily by concerns about pay, research from the Royal College of Nursing has found

RCN Awards 2020 recipients announced

Dr Peter Carter, former chief executive of the Royal College of Nursing, and Dr Crystal Oldman, chief executive of the Queen’s Nursing Institute, have been named as fellows of the RCN in the...

Smoking: Over one million quit since start of pandemic

Smokers are quitting in highest numbers in a decade since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, a survey by Action on Smoking and Health has found

Coronavirus: ‘Significant reduction’ before lockdown eased

The rate of COVID-19 infection halved every 8 to 9 days during May, research from Imperial College London has suggested

NHS employs record number of nurses and midwives

Applicants to nursing courses in England have risen by 16%, as a record number of nurses and midwives are employed in the NHS, figures from the Nursing and Midwifery Council show

COVID-19: Over 95% of tests return next day

Approximately 97.5% of in person tests for coronavirus are returned the day after the test is taken, statistics released by NHS England have shown

Independent Nurse and British Journal of Nursing launch #SupportingNurses campaign

A new campaign to show appreciation for the heroes and heroines who have been in the front line of the fight against COVID-19 has been launched by the Mark Allen Group, the UK’s leading publisher of...

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