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Primary care networks – the key to a more co-operative NHS?

Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan and bring general practices together to work at scale

What is the effect of COVID-19 on people with diabetes?

The latest figures from NHS England have revealed that approximately 26% of people who have died of COVID-19 in England had diabetes. With the aid of the very latest research, we look at why that...

Failing the coronavirus test

Public goodwill, and sympathy after his own brush with COVID, is giving way to a disquiet that the Prime Minister is not really engaged with a national emergency

New end-of-life guidelines will provide ‘care, comfort and relief’ to the frail

​The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has published a new set of guidelines on end-of-life care to help health care professionals provide high quality, patient-centred care to frail older people

A quarter of COVID deaths have been people with diabetes says NHS England

The latest figures from NHS England have revealed that approximately 26% of people who have died of COVID-19 in England had diabetes. As a result, Diabetes UK is calling for support for those with the...

RCN and QNI welcome call for more nurses as ‘coronavirus legacy’

​Nursing leaders have welcomed a call by NHS England for universities to increase places for nurses, and give people interested in the profession more opportunities to sign up, in the wake of the...

Tributes paid by politicians and nursing leaders on International Nurses Day

Politicians and nursing leaders have paid tribute to the work of nurses on International Nurses Day, with especial gratitude being shown this year for their vital role within the NHS

Recognising the vital contribution of practice nurses

Debbie Brown, editor-in-chief of Practice Nursing, brings together messages of support from nursing leaders for the work being done during the COVID-19 crisis

Commemoration Service for Florence Nightingale

The service is being held this year on International Nurses’ Day, the 12th of May, at Westminster Abbey

Preparing for the next pandemic

We take a look back to a piece we published in August 2019 on the prospect of a global pandemic, and the plans PHE had to counter it. How did COVID get through the net?

Government support for social care needs ‘immediate and long-term attention’, says NHS Confederation

‘This is a reset moment for how public services are delivered, which we cannot afford to waste’, the NHS Confederation has said, adding that the support that the government provides to the social care...

RCM Awards Ceremony

This year the awards ceremony by the Royal College of Midwives is being held at The Brewery in London, on the 5th of May

Minister says UK ‘will either meet or come close’ to its COVID-19 testing target

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said that the target was ‘just a stepping stone. We need to go beyond 100,000 but we have now seen a very substantial increase in testing in quite a short period...

People from deprived areas twice as likely to die from COVID

Data released by the Office of National Statistics has revealed ‘a clear and worrying trend’, according to health think tank, the Health Foundation. ‘That deaths in the most deprived areas are more...

People with cancer symptoms must not miss out on being checked, urges NHS England

A survey has shown that one in ten people would not contact their GP even if they had symptoms of cancer. This is evidenced by a 76% drop in cancer referrals since February as a result of people not...

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