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RCN Congress 2021 to be held exclusively online

This year’s RCN congress will take place virtually, after the organisation’s Council members decided this was the best way to safeguard members, after allegations of serious sexual harassment came to...

COVID-19: Initiative boosts ethnic minority vaccinations

The ‘grab-a-jab’ campaign by NHS England has vaccinated more than 700,000 people from ethnic minority backgrounds since rolling out

NAFLD and its link with type-2 diabetes: why we should be worried

Louise Cremonesini and Emma Harkin look at this increasingly common form of liver disease

Managing obesity in individuals with type 2 diabetes

David Morris looks at how nurses can advise overweight patients with diabetes

Advocating for patients

Nicola Davies looks at how nurses can use their position to speak up for patients

COVID-19's impact on care homes was not inevitable

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

Care beyond medicine

Kathy Oxtoby looks at how social prescribing offers a new holistic approach to public health

COVID-19: Antibody therapy approved for UK use

A new coronavirus treatment has been approved for use in the UK

Patients urged to get ‘life-saving’ cancer checks

New NHS Chief Executive Amanda Pritchard has called for patients to be checked for cancer

High number of ‘likely overdoses’ reported

There has been a sharp rise in the number of overdoses linked to people using drugs in several areas across England, Public Health England has warned

Ignoring the voice of nursing ‘puts patient safety at risk’, says RCN

The RCN has warned that low morale in the nursing workforce could endanger patients, as the union launches its consultation on pay

COVID-19: NHS invites young people for jab ahead of their 18th birthday

Thousands of young people nearing their 18th birthday can now book in for their COVID-19 jab, NHS England has announced

COVID-19: Three in four UK adults receive both doses of a vaccine

The latest data shows 60,000 deaths and 66,900 hospitalisations have been prevented by the vaccines, according to the Department of Health and Social Care

RCN launches app to help members campaign for fair pay for nursing

The campaigning app will support members looking to advocate for the change needed to secure fair pay, safe staffing and effective care during their summer of action

‘Walking on eyeballs’: The nurse’s role in gout care

Mark Greener looks at how nurses can manage patients with this painful and misunderstood condition

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