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Register now for our free immunisation conference

​Independent Nurse and our sister title Practice Nursing are launching a new immunisation nursing CPD conference on 14 September in Hallam Conference Centre, London. This is a free CPD event open to...

Is a nurse strike on the horizon?

As the RCN begins the process of balloting its members on strike action for the first time in its history, Independent Nurse looks at how it has got here

Career profile: Gary Rutherford

Gary Rutherford, a mental health nurse from Derry, and the RCN Northern Ireland Nurse of the Year 2022

Victims of NHS blood scandal to receive £100,000

The move comes after a report from the chairman of the ongoing inquiry into the greatest treatment disaster in the history of the NHS, recommended that interim payments should be made ‘without delay’...

Number one event for diabetes professionals returns

Join us at Diabetes Professional Care, the UK’s number one event for diabetes professionals, returning to Olympia London on 16-17 November 2022

All children in London to be offered dose of polio vaccine

The JCVI has recommended that polio vaccine booster doses should be offered to children across London, after the virus was detected in sewage

Employers must protect nursing staff during heatwave

Staff must be allowed to take regular breaks and stay hydrated as temperatures rise, the RCN has said

Racism in the NHS is rampant: nurses demand action

We have spoken to hundreds of ethnic minority background participants working in frontline health and social care roles with shocking stories of racism at work

Candidates for RCN President election announced

RCN members will choose from four candidates when they vote for the organisation’s new President later this year

RCN members urged to support industrial action in strike ballot over NHS pay

Hundreds of thousands of nursing staff in England and Wales will soon have the chance to vote on whether to take strike action

Chronic oedema: assessment, compression and monitoring

Jeanette Muldoon looks at what nurses need to know about this often distressing condition

Advising patients on physical activity and asthma

Heather Henry explains how nurses can provide information on how exercise can affect patients with asthma

Archie Battersbee and the limits of law

The court cases around the end of Archie's life were a minus sum game with no possible winners

Understanding heart failure with preserved ejection fraction

Poppy Brooks looks at how to diagnose and manage this common cause of heart failure

More than 2500 cases of monkeypox reported in the UK

Over 2500 cases of monkeypox have now been recorded by the UK Health Security Agency

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