Are you getting the support you need from employers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Debbie Brown, Editor-in-Chief of our sibling title Practice Nursing, wants to hear from primary care nurses about...
Health Education England has now received almost 18,000 student nurse and midwife volunteers to join the frontline in combating COVID-19, and the NMC temporary register has now reached over 10,000...
The RCN’s chief executive and general secretary, Dame Donna Kinnair has criticised the haphazard state of coronavirus testing for NHS workers
The NHS Confederation has issued a plea for more government transparency on testing for the COVID-19 virus, as Health Secretary Matt Hancock’s pledge to roll out testing to all care home residents and...
Two of the world’s biggest drug companies have announced plans to collaborate on producing a coronavirus vaccine, and produce millions of doses
Best-selling food writer Annabel Karmel has taken on a new challenge, cooking for NHS staff battling with coronavirus
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is said to be ‘in good spirits’, and ‘responding to treatment’ after spending a second night in intensive care with COVID-19
Mark Greener looks at the latest potential pandemic and what is known so far
Claire Carmichael, who graduated from Birmingham City University, is a newly qualified nurse working in the community as a GP nurse. In recognition of healthcare professionals around the world on...
Nursing and Midwifery Council boss Andrea Sutcliffe says the Council will write to nurses and midwives who trained overseas or left the profession in the last four to five years to ask them to join...
Need to have your copy of Independent Nurse redirected to your home address during the coronavirus lockdown? Here's how
The Health Secretary Matt Hancock has admitted that hitting its new target for coronavirus tests has left the Government with ‘a huge amount of work to do’. Speaking as the NHS prepared to open a new...
A blood test for cancer is successful in detecting more than 50 types of cancer, according to new research. The test accurately found cancer in over 99% of cases, when tested on over 4000 participants...
The Royal College of Nursing has called upon the Government to provide personal protective equipment (PPE) for community-based nursing staff as deaths from COVID-19 rise again
Linda Nazarko explains the use of the NEWS2 system in community care settings
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