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Winter is coming: time for the influenza jab

Catherine Heffernan looks at what nurses need to know about this year’s flu season

The role of the nurse in screening people with suspected dementia

James Wilson and Dr Nita Muir looks at how staff in primary care can diagnose dementia

Nurses likely to go on strike this winter

RCN sources say a large majority of nurses have voted in favour of action over pay

RCN presidential election opens

The President acts as an ambassador for the nursing profession and represents the RCN to its members, stakeholders and the public, both across the UK and internationally.

Severe nursing workforce shortages require urgent action

The failure of successive UK governments to tackle the nursing workforce crisis in England has created the greatest risk to publicly funded health and care services since their creation, a report by...

Increasing rate of type 2 diabetes among under-40s is 'troubling' says expert

Diabetes UK found that the number of type 2 diabetes cases in under-40s had risen by 23% in the last five years, increasing at a faster rate than in people over-40.

Public support for nursing staff going on strike is at its highest

Nearly two thirds of the public strongly support strike action as concern over the number of nursing staff working in the NHS spikes, new polling from the RCN has found

NHS hits 10 million booster milestone

More than 10 million people in England have now had their autumn COVID-19 booster, new figures show

Decade of pay cuts cause nurse salaries to fall

New research reveals nurses’ salary has fallen 20% in real term pay cuts since 2012

NHS launches recruitment drive amid record staff vacancies

The NHS has launched its annual nationwide drive to recruit more nurses, with tens of thousands of vacancies across England

Barclay reappointed as Health Secretary

Steve Barclay has replaced Therese Coffey as Health and Social Care Secretary, as part of new Prime Minister Rishi Sunak’s first reshuffle

NHS nurse opts out of pension to make ends meet

Data from the NHS Business Services Authority reveals that 11,937 nurses have opted out of their pension schemes since April last year

Respiratory infections to place the greatest stress on the NHS this winter

Respiratory infections are set to cause the most significant pressures this winter on NHS capacity, health leaders have warned

'This farce cannot go on’: nursing unions call for a general election as PM resigns

Leaders of the RCN and of Unison have called for a general election as the UK heads for its third Prime Minister in a year

Government approach to public health poses ‘massive risk’, warn leading think tanks

The warning comes in the wake of reports that Health Secretary Therese Coffey is planning to scrap measures to curb obesity such as the sugar tax, and ditching of the tobacco control plan and the...

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