The QNI has creating the ‘TalkToUs’ listening service, enabling any nurse working in health or social care in the community to access emotional support and signposting to other services such as...
Research suggests that the reduction in urgent referrals, and delays and cancellations to treatment could contribute to a further 35,000 cancer deaths in the next five years
How the COVID-19 pandemic has sped up a technological revolution in health
It was hailed by World Health Organisation (WHO) Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus as ‘one of the greatest achievements in public health history’, which would ‘leave behind a legacy in how...
The study also found that patients with a BMI greater than 30 have a 113% greater risk of being admitted to hospital with COVID-19, and a 74% greater chance of being admitted to intensive care
Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace will be unified to establish a new organisation focused on public health protection and infectious disease capability, the Government has announced
The Office for National Statistics will significantly expand its infection survey to 400,000 people in England, making it the country’s largest study tracking COVID-19 in the general population
People requiring support for their mental health are at risk of not getting the care they need and their conditions deteriorating due to increased demand brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Screening women for breast cancer from their 40s rather than their 50s could save lives without adding to the diagnosis of harmless cancers, a study published in the Lancet Oncology has suggested
The UK government has signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine
While funding to increase apprenticeships to 2000 per year is welcome, the Government must do more to achieve the 50,000 new nursing staff promised by the Prime Minister, the Royal College of Nursing...
Ruth May, chief nursing officer for England, has urged those receiving their A-Level results tomorrow to join the thousands of their peers who have already applied to study nursing this year
The first online Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the RCN was held on 6 August, with almost 800 members discussing key issues affecting the nursing workforce
The UK’s largest testing programme for coronavirus has shown that the virus continued to decline in June
Millions of new rapid coronavirus tests will be rolled out across NHS hospitals, care homes and labs in preparation for the coming winter
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