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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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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…

The future of education for practice nurses

The education of nurses in general practice is key to the sector’s future

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Back in the Hunt: what Jeremy did next

How will the former health secretary fare as the new chair of the Health Select Committee?

Welcoming in the Year of the Nurse and the Midwife

2020 is the International Year of the Nurse and Midwife, it’s time to celebrate our profession

The responsibility Boris Johnson can’t duck

?So the least wanted and oddest election of my lifetime is over, and the result has been a fairly emphatic victory for blond ambition. And just as we predicted in November’s IN, the NHS was invoked in various unedifying ways during the campaign

GP home visits – a necessity, not an indulgence

What a sad indictment it is of our society when GPs say they no longer have the capacity to offer care to the most vulnerable, those who are housebound and elderly.

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Sex and disability: The conversation we urgently need to have

We want to be part of normalising the conversations around sex and disability, and this also means better supporting professionals who work young people and their diverse needs.

Help the NMC shape nursing’s future

The NMC wants to play a leading role in driving up standards and enabling better, safer care, writes Andrea Sutcliffe

The needle and the damage done

As deaths from drug overdoses rocket, Mike Shallcross asks if it's time for a bolder approach to this public health emergency

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The modern scandal of menstrual education in our schools

Ian Peate explains why sex education is essential for school children

Can Jeremy make it to Number Ten?

A former health secretary may become our prime minister. It would be the smart choice, argues Mike Shallcross

Thinking again about assisted dying

This week Parliament entered the debate on assisted dying, with many MPs arguing for a change in the current law. IN Editor Mike Shallcross explains why he believes it's time for a rethink

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