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Nursing staff ‘must be at the heart of roadmap to recovery’

The RCN has published staff recovery and patient safety principles which they say must guide health care employers in planning the return to ‘normal’ service delivery

Education: Nursing UCAS applications soar

More than 60,000 people have applied to study nursing in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, figures from UCAS have shown

Prime Minister must act on ‘inadequate’ protection of health workers, healthcare leaders say

The Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, must help prevent further loss of life by acting on the evidence around the need for better ventilation and higher grade PPE, a coalition of health experts has...

COVID-19: New technology to help identify those at high risk

New technology has been introduced in England to help clinicians identify a new group of people who may be at high risk from COVID-19 for the first time

COVID-19: New vaccine booking system brought in for all health and care workers

All frontline health and social care workers in England can now self-refer for COVID-19 vaccine appointments, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced

Measuring the impact of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout

Ian Peate explains how the vaccination for coronavirus is the route out of this current pandemic

Primary Care Nursing Live

Primary Care Nursing Live, the leading educational event for primary care nurses, will be streamed live from 15 February 2021

‘Clear commitment’ to investing in people needed

New proposals to join up health and care services must be linked to increased recruitment in the NHS, the RCN has said

COVID-19: NHS patients to receive get life-saving treatment

Thousands more NHS patients who are hospitalised due to COVID-19 will be able to receive tocilizumab, the Government has announced

Variations on a deadly theme: How COVID-19 is changing

Mark Greener looks at how the virus is evolving over time and what that means for us

Self-management for patients with suspected ‘long COVID’

Luxmi Dhoonmoon looks at the novel phenomenon of ‘long COVID’ and how nurses need to respond

The rise of the nurse coach

Nicola Davies explains how nurses can engage more successfully with their patients

COVID-19: Some nurses at risk of being left behind

Agency and temporary nursing staff could be at risk, as a survey shows majority of those who hadn’t received or been offered the vaccine are employed outside the NHS

COVID-19: Frontline workers left ‘risking lives to provide treatment’

The Government has been criticised for failing to shield healthcare professionals from coronavirus due to poor management of protective equipment

New guidance to help manage concerns about nursing practice

The NMC has published new guidance to support employers of nurses, midwives and nursing associates to take appropriate action when concerns are raised about an employee’s practice

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