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Eating disorders: Postcode lottery across England

Adults with eating disorders in some parts of England have to wait over ten times longer for treatment than in other areas, creating a postcode lottery for services, experts have warned

Long-term plan at risk without sufficient funding

Urgent government action on wider health funding is required to deliver the NHS Long-term Plan, analysis by the Health Foundation and the NHS Confederation has found

How to get your writing published

Ian Peate explains what nurses can do to share their work and research to a wider audience of their peers

NHS to investigate ‘ghost patients’

The NHS will investigate general practices after it emerged that as much as £88 million a year is wasted on ‘ghost patients’

Diabetes: Competition launched for behaviour change platform

A competition to win the opportunity to free access for 200 people across the U.K. living with Type 2 diabetes to a behaviour change platform has been launched

Infection: Body art poses risk

Tattoos and piercings pose an infection risk, a report by the Royal Society for Public Health has found

Independent Nurse Respiratory Survey 2019

Have you filled in our 2019 Respiratory Survey?

Career profile: Sarah Everett

Sarah Everett, a practice nurse in Govan who runs the Men’s Shed, a project to improve men’s health in the area

A new model for children's services

Chris Hanvey calls for a new model of 'integrated and collaborative services" to fulfil society's duty of care for children

Primary care management following an acute myocardial infarction

David Warriner and Mohanned Al-Matok explain how to treat a patient who has returned from acute care

Ten things you should know about type 2 diabetes – part 2

In the second of two articles, David Morris answers more of the most common questions about diabetes

Managing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease in primary care

Stephen Gundry explains how nurses can ensure that patients with this life-long condition are well managed

Pain relief in the treatment of shingles: a guide for nurses

Linda Nazarko explains how to manage this often distressing dermatalogical condition

Managing patients’ diagnoses with gout in primary care settings

Margaret Perry looks at the causes of and treatments for this painful condition

Miracles and cancer immunotherapy: An in-depth look at medical miracles

Mark Greener looks at spontaneous cancer regression, and what today’s researchers have learned from it

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