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Lower urinary tract symptoms: Overactive bladder syndrome

Linda Nazarko explains why nurses are best placed to help women who suffer from an overactive bladder

RCN wants nurses to encourage cervical smears

Nurses play a ‘vital role’ in encouraging women to attend regular smear tests after a report revealed a 52% fall in women in England attending cervical screenings

Nurses will be forced to repay more student loan than higher earners

The student loan system has come under fire from peers after findings show male nurses and midwives will pay back up to £19,000 more than high-earners

Gestational diabetes mellitus: onset, causes and management

Primary care nurses can play a huge role in the management of gestational diabetes, writes David Morris

Back to basics on diabetes training

Lead nurse, Ruth Miller, reports back on the success of her Diabetes 10 Point Training Programme

Iodine deficiency: Britain’s hidden nutrition crisis

Sara Patience provides important information on this important mineral and how to get more of it

Sexual assault victims offered lifetime mental health care

A new NHS England pledge will offer victims of sexual assault a lifetime of counselling and mental health care

‘NHS facing unprecedented pressures’ say think tanks in bid for more funding

As the NHS faces ‘damaging cuts’ a long‑term funding settlement is needed, three leading think tanks have said in a letter to the Prime Minister

NMC responds to fitness to practise perfomance review

A performance review has found that the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has met 23 out of 24 standards of good regulation – but needs to address communication issues during fitness to practise...

More investment in training needed to fix shortage of 40,000 nurses, says RCN

Nursing apprenticeships have come under fire from the Royal College of Nursing (RCN), which is demanding more investment in all training pathways

Syphilis and gonorrhoea up by 20%

Figures released today show that cases of syphilis are up by 20% and gonorrhoea has increased by 22% across England

Experts say walking briskly should be the focus, not hitting 10,000 steps a day

Walking briskly for 10 minutes each day can be just as effective as hitting the 10,000 steps a day target, say health experts

Dementia specialist nurse to be introduced in North Devon

North Devon District Hospital will now have an Angela Walter as an Admiral Nurse – a specialist role which supports people with dementia, carers, family and staff

GP surgery closures could have ‘serious ramifications’ for the NHS

Figures released today show that GP surgeries are closing at an alarming rate – with as many as 1.3 million patients being forced to change practice

Breast cancer screening error may have impacted an extra 140,000 women

A medical expert has claimed that over a hundred thousand more women may have missed out on vital breast cancer screenings because of a computer failure

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