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The NHS is multi-faceted and ever-evolving. Find out what key opinion leaders, nurses and politicians think of the latest changes in the health service and how it impacts primary care nurses.

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Nurses are crucial in combatting malnutrition

Malnutrition Awareness Week (October 11-17) is an opportunity to focus on what we can do better to improve patient nutrition and hydration

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

Meet the new boss, same as the old boss?

The clinch that brought down Matt Hancock was the sort of awkward fumble more often seen in the school disco than in the old News of the World, and yet to the public it was infinitely more obscene. Mr Hancock was making rules that the public followed stoically, but he clearly didn’t believe that they applied to him

End the hospice funding crisis – before it is too late

Sue Ryder Chief Executive Heidi Travis warns that funding hospices cannot be left solely to chance and charity

More than just a jab – the ethics of the vaccine

There is nothing our current Prime Minister likes to do more than play Father Bountiful – even if he does give the impression of someone who is much happier writing cheques, than he is honouring them

Black health matters

?In the tumultuous story of the last year or so – which will be much more fun for people to study in the future than it is to live through now – the question of race and racial inequality has loomed almost as large as the pandemic

COVID-19 and the need for ‘mental PPE’

If the crisis point for healthy care professionals of the early pandemic was the lack of adequate PPE, the current one is of mental health

The Nurse and Diabetes Care

For World Diabetes Day, Professor Andrew Boulton of the International Diabetes Federation explains the importance of nurses in managing the condition

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Reducing usage in the ‘Painkiller Capital’ of the UK

How one CCG managed to reduce the number of prescriptions for painkillers

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The sick man of western democracy

?If they were your patients, you’d probably be advising them to stay home right now, but in the US two men in their Seventies are vying to become President

Celebrating nursing during the COVID-19 pandemic

We must continue to celebrate nursing throughout the pandemic, says Crystal Oldman

No magic bullet for COVID-19

I’ve always liked to think of myself as an early adopter of new trends. While this hasn’t always played out in real life, in mid-March I had a dose of COVID-19

The opportunity of the QNI’s strategy for nursing

The opportunity of the QNI’s strategy for nursing, writes Crystal Oldman

The deadly myth of a ‘Second Wave’

Is talk of a second wave of COVID-19 stopping the NHS from doing its real job?

Who can care for carers during the pandemic

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 counselling

How to help nurses... and the economy

So here is a modest proposal from the back of an envelope at IN: a £2000 one-off bonus for every NHS worker. It would be politically popular, boost morale, and be relatively simple to administer. Also, given that it would go largely to low-paid workers, the money would be spent and help jump start the economy

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Being a newly qualified nurse on the frontline

Daniella Mazurkiewicz reflects on how she adapted to working solo as a preceptorship homecare nurse during the COVID-19 pandemic to help patients continue with essential therapies

BAME health matters – a lesson from COVID

There is a trend of drawing premature conclusions from COVID data, but the figures on BAME deaths are unambiguous. Analysis from the ONS has shown that patients from BAME groups are twice as likely to die from the virus as white ones.

Failing the coronavirus test

Public goodwill, and sympathy after his own brush with COVID, is giving way to a disquiet that the Prime Minister is not really engaged with a national emergency

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Recognising the vital contribution of practice nurses

Debbie Brown, editor-in-chief of Practice Nursing, brings together messages of support from nursing leaders for the work being done during the COVID-19 crisis

Supporting End of Life Care during the COVID-19 crisis

Laureen Hemming on what the COVID-19 crisis can teach us on good end-of-life care

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The testing deficit at the heart of the COVID-19 outbreak

Linda Nazarko takes stock of what we know of COVID-19 so far, and what we could be doing better

'Some nurses have died'

Some nurses have died. They have names, faces, people who loved them.

How is COVID-19 affecting you?

Are you getting the support you need from employers during the COVID-19 outbreak. Debbie Brown, Editor-in-Chief of our sibling title Practice Nursing, wants to hear from primary care nurses about their experiences

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Life on the frontline: what it’s like to be a newly qualified GP nurse during COVID-19

Claire Carmichael, who graduated from Birmingham City University, is a newly qualified nurse working in the community as a GP nurse. In recognition of healthcare professionals around the world on World Health Day (7 April), Claire shares what it’s like to be a frontline nurse during the coronavirus outbreak…

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