The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will reintroduce emergency education standards to enable final year nursing students to opt in to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, via extended...
The Government announced on Friday afternoon that its R number, which measures the rate of infection from COVID-19 has fallen to below 1 for the first time since August. This means the pandemic is no...
The RCN has delivered a cool response to figures released by NHS which show that the number of nurses in England has increased by 13,718 compared with last year
If they were your patients, you’d probably be advising them to stay home right now, but in the US two men in their Seventies are vying to become President
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK faces an ‘unquestionably difficult winter’ as rising rates of COVID-19 have prompted a new wave of restrictions across all four countries
I’ve always liked to think of myself as an early adopter of new trends. While this hasn’t always played out in real life, in mid-March I had a dose of COVID-19
What will be the the long-term, post-pandemic cost of single-use face coverings?
Is talk of a second wave of COVID-19 stopping the NHS from doing its real job?
Will the COVID-19 pandemic usher in a new era of technology in primary care?
Linda Nazarko explains the long-term, post-pandemic cost of single-use face coverings
How to maintain continuity in childhood vaccination during the coronavirus outbreak
Margaret Umeed explains the need to consider other conditions when assessing returning travellers
The majority (73%) of parents were happy for their children to receive vaccinations during the COVID-19 outbreak. However, just 27% of parents are now comfortable taking their child to a medical...
Matt Hancock, Health Secretary, commented on the lowering of the UK’s alert level, said this ‘was a big moment for the country’ and that it reflected ‘a real testament to the British people’s...
There is a trend of drawing premature conclusions from COVID data, but the figures on BAME deaths are unambiguous. Analysis from the ONS has shown that patients from BAME groups are twice as likely to...
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