PCN Live, the leading educational event for primary care nurses organised by Practice Nursing and Independent Nurse, saw more than 1000 nurses join the virtual event as it went online for the first...
A new Antivirals Taskforce will identify innovative home treatments for UK patients who have been exposed to COVID-19 to stop the infection spreading and speed up recovery time, the Department of...
The COVID-19 pandemic has shaken our healthcare systems and populations to the core, the scale of which has never been seen in peacetime. COVID-19 has brought with it significant adjustments in daily...
Urinary tract infections are the second most common reason for antibiotic prescribing the UK
Are trees, plants, weeds and moulds the friends or the foe of nurses? This article gives an overview of the benefits and disadvantages of having them around us
Nurses ease the suffering of others – whether that be physical or mental suffering. But, what impact can this have on their own mental health?
Could a Dutch system of nursing, based on autonomy and building relationships, provide key solutions to challenges in the NHS
In the tumultuous story of the last year or so – which will be much more fun for people to study in the future than it is to live through now – the question of race and racial inequality has loomed...
Muslim health care professionals and Islamic scholars have released guidance to say the COVID vaccination does not break the Ramadan fast
More than nine in 10 respondents to an RCN survey have received at least one dose of the COVID-19 vaccine and nearly two-thirds (62%) have received both doses
People aged 45 to 49 are now being invited to book their vaccination appointments, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced
The standards, which provide guidelines for almost 725 000 nurses and midwives in the UK, were last updated 15 years ago and it is hoped they can be improved through the input of a variety of...
A thousand nurses have been recognised by the RCN as advanced practitioners, just three years after the programme began
Palliative and end of life care was compromised because services were not seen as 'frontline NHS' during the pandemic, a report from Marie Curie has claimed
Patients aged 29 and under will be offered a different vaccine to the AstraZeneca jab, due to a small risk of blood clots, the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency has announced
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