Margaret Perry explains the increasing presence of bacteria immune to conventional medicines
Linda Nazarko explains how catheters can be managed safely in the home
All nursing students on courses from September 2020 will receive a payment of at least £5,000 a year which they will not need to pay back, the government has announced
Members of the RCN in Northern Ireland are taking strike action for the first time in the organisation’s 103-year history
Hundreds of thousands could be affected by influenza over Christmas if levels rise as expected in late December and early January, NHS England and Public Health England (PHE) have said
Changing packaging to explain how much exercise is needed to burn calories could significantly reduce the amount of food and drink a person chooses to buy and consume, research has found
The Conservative Party must honour its pledges to increase NHS funding, the RCN have said, after the party won a landslide victory in the 2019 general election
So the least wanted and oddest election of my lifetime is over, and the result has been a fairly emphatic victory for blond ambition. And just as we predicted in November’s IN, the NHS was invoked in...
Nurses in Northern Ireland are currently taking further industrial action for 48 hours to campaign for equal pay with nurses in the rest of the UK and improved staffing levels
Almost a quarter of children who are starting school in Scotland are at risk of being overweight or obese, and that children in less affluent areas are at higher risk, the latest figures from the...
Two thirds (67%) of the public favour an increase in taxes to maintain current levels of NHS care, up from 64% in May 2017 and 59% in March 2015, a survey by the Health Foundation has found
Whichever party forms the next Government after 12th December must announce an emergency funding package in its first Budget to help to attract more students to nursing degrees in England,’ the RCN...
Over half of nurses say that they are unable to provide the level of care required due to workforce pressures, the RCN Employment Survey 2019 has found
Macmillan Cancer Support is urging political parties to prioritise cancer care in the face of NHS staffing problems, after finding that there are now almost 3 million people living with cancer in the...
People should have their cholesterol level checked from the age of 25, according to a new study published in The Lancet
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