Christine Loveridge explains how respiratory care can be improved in the wake of the COVID pandemic
With the best will in the world, COVID-19 would still have hit the UK hard, but had we started with a better health infrastructure, and had the Government acted more decisively, would we still have...
Catherine Heffernan looks at how the pandemic has diverted focus from other vital vaccination programmes
A new report has found that 12,400 fewer patients participated in cardiac rehabilitation programmes in 2020 than in 2019.
Catherine Heffernan looks at how influenza vaccinations will be conducted in the aftermath of COVID-19
RCN Chair of Council Carol Popplestone described them as ‘sensible measures’ which were ‘key to cutting the risk of increased hospitalisations and reducing transmission'
The idea of the people who set the rules not playing by them is always infuriating to the public
How has COVID-19 affected treatment for the most common cancer in men
What national policymakers do to protect people who use and provide adult social care still matters – and the scale of the impact of COVID-19 on social care was not inevitable
All 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK are to start receiving a first dose of COVID vaccination within weeks, the Government has announced. ‘There is no time to waste in getting on with this,’ said...
Mandatory vaccination among social care staff would undoubtedly reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission and illness among patients, visitors, other staff and broader communities, so why has this...
The clinch that brought down Matt Hancock was the sort of awkward fumble more often seen in the school disco than in the old News of the World, and yet to the public it was infinitely more obscene. Mr...
There is nothing our current Prime Minister likes to do more than play Father Bountiful – even if he does give the impression of someone who is much happier writing cheques, than he is honouring them
Research is beginning to identify drugs that may prevent or treat COVID-19, some of which have seemingly unlikely origins
If the crisis point for healthy care professionals of the early pandemic was the lack of adequate PPE, the current one is of mental health
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