New COVID-19 variant under investigation New precautionary travel restrictions are being introduced as the UK Health Security Agency confirms a new variant of COVID-19 is being investigated New fund to support suicide prevention services The government has launched a £5 million fund to support the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector on suicide prevention services Government misses opportunity to protect patient care There is 'widespread disappointment and disbelief' after the Government disregards amendments to the Health and Care Bill, despite broad support from healthcare unions Major reforms to NHS workforce planning announced Recruitment, training and retention of staff, and digital transformation will be central to NHS under new reforms announced by the Department of Health and Social Care British Journal of Community Nursing launches new website The new site brings together three years’ worth of content from the journal on care of the older person, long-term conditions and frailty/dementia as well as the latest professional issues Prostate cancer care after the COVID pandemic How has COVID-19 affected treatment for the most common cancer in men Antibiotic resistance could be a 'hidden pandemic', warn health officials New data shows that bloodstream infections dropped in 2020 for the first time since 2016 but remain at a higher level than 6 years ago, raising concerns of a potential pandemic COVID-19 booster programme extended The COVID-19 booster programme will be extended to people aged 40 and over, and the NHS will offer a second dose to people aged 16 to 17, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced Practice Nursing launches new website Leading nursing publication Practice Nursing has launched a brand new website Black women four times more likely to die in childbirth Black women are more than four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than white women in the UK, a new report has found Not just skin deep - the mental health impact of dry skin conditions Every year one in four people consult a healthcare professional for a skin-related problem COVID-19 vaccination to be mandatory for all frontline health care workers Health and social care providers in England will be required to ensure workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Government has announced British Journal of Nursing’s new website goes live Leading nursing publication the British Journal of Nursing has launched a brand new website HPV vaccine lowers risk of cervical cancer by 90% The HPV vaccine has been shown to dramatically reduce cervical cancer rates by almost 90% in women in their 20s who were offered it at age 12-13 RCN indicative ballot on industrial action is now open RCN members have visited Downing Street to deliver a petition containing more than 160,000 signatures calling on the government to deliver fair pay for nursing. Climate change is a health emergency The RCN has restated its commitment to tackling climate change and urged the government to treat climate change as a health emergency to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference 2021 NHS to offer home blood pressure checks Hundreds of thousands of people will be able to test their blood pressure at home with new monitors, NHS England has announced Little reassurance for nurses in budget Despite longstanding pressures and nursing workforce shortages, the latest budget offers little reassurance to nursing staff, the RCN has warned Over 1 million receive COVID-19 boosters Nearly 1.6 million booster jabs have been delivered over the past seven days, NHS England has announced Tens of thousands of 12 to 15-year-olds booked in for COVID-19 jabs More than 80,000 young people aged 12 to 15 have booked their COVID-19 vaccination since online bookings opened CQC warns of care crisis The Care Quality Commission has said that there is a ‘tsunami of unmet need’ in health and social care 1 comment Services already unsustainable, says RCN As daily COVID-19 cases rise above 40,000 for over a week, the RCN has urged the government to stop denying pressure on nursing staff 1 comment UK should enact Plan B to avoid winter crisis The Government must introduce measures, such as mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, without delay say health leaders 1 comment NHS delivers over three million COVID boosters in first month More than three million top up COVID-19 jabs have been delivered in just four weeks, as the NHS vaccination rollout continues RCN announces dates for indicative ballot on industrial action in England The RCN has announced the dates for an indicative ballot on industrial action in England to determine the next steps in its campaign for fair NHS pay
New COVID-19 variant under investigation New precautionary travel restrictions are being introduced as the UK Health Security Agency confirms a new variant of COVID-19 is being investigated
New fund to support suicide prevention services The government has launched a £5 million fund to support the Voluntary Community and Social Enterprise sector on suicide prevention services
Government misses opportunity to protect patient care There is 'widespread disappointment and disbelief' after the Government disregards amendments to the Health and Care Bill, despite broad support from healthcare unions
Major reforms to NHS workforce planning announced Recruitment, training and retention of staff, and digital transformation will be central to NHS under new reforms announced by the Department of Health and Social Care
British Journal of Community Nursing launches new website The new site brings together three years’ worth of content from the journal on care of the older person, long-term conditions and frailty/dementia as well as the latest professional issues
Prostate cancer care after the COVID pandemic How has COVID-19 affected treatment for the most common cancer in men
Antibiotic resistance could be a 'hidden pandemic', warn health officials New data shows that bloodstream infections dropped in 2020 for the first time since 2016 but remain at a higher level than 6 years ago, raising concerns of a potential pandemic
COVID-19 booster programme extended The COVID-19 booster programme will be extended to people aged 40 and over, and the NHS will offer a second dose to people aged 16 to 17, the Department of Health and Social Care has announced
Practice Nursing launches new website Leading nursing publication Practice Nursing has launched a brand new website
Black women four times more likely to die in childbirth Black women are more than four times more likely to die in pregnancy or childbirth than white women in the UK, a new report has found
Not just skin deep - the mental health impact of dry skin conditions Every year one in four people consult a healthcare professional for a skin-related problem
COVID-19 vaccination to be mandatory for all frontline health care workers Health and social care providers in England will be required to ensure workers are fully vaccinated against COVID-19, the Government has announced
British Journal of Nursing’s new website goes live Leading nursing publication the British Journal of Nursing has launched a brand new website
HPV vaccine lowers risk of cervical cancer by 90% The HPV vaccine has been shown to dramatically reduce cervical cancer rates by almost 90% in women in their 20s who were offered it at age 12-13
RCN indicative ballot on industrial action is now open RCN members have visited Downing Street to deliver a petition containing more than 160,000 signatures calling on the government to deliver fair pay for nursing.
Climate change is a health emergency The RCN has restated its commitment to tackling climate change and urged the government to treat climate change as a health emergency to coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference 2021
NHS to offer home blood pressure checks Hundreds of thousands of people will be able to test their blood pressure at home with new monitors, NHS England has announced
Little reassurance for nurses in budget Despite longstanding pressures and nursing workforce shortages, the latest budget offers little reassurance to nursing staff, the RCN has warned
Over 1 million receive COVID-19 boosters Nearly 1.6 million booster jabs have been delivered over the past seven days, NHS England has announced
Tens of thousands of 12 to 15-year-olds booked in for COVID-19 jabs More than 80,000 young people aged 12 to 15 have booked their COVID-19 vaccination since online bookings opened
CQC warns of care crisis The Care Quality Commission has said that there is a ‘tsunami of unmet need’ in health and social care 1 comment
Services already unsustainable, says RCN As daily COVID-19 cases rise above 40,000 for over a week, the RCN has urged the government to stop denying pressure on nursing staff 1 comment
UK should enact Plan B to avoid winter crisis The Government must introduce measures, such as mandatory face coverings in crowded and enclosed spaces, without delay say health leaders 1 comment
NHS delivers over three million COVID boosters in first month More than three million top up COVID-19 jabs have been delivered in just four weeks, as the NHS vaccination rollout continues
RCN announces dates for indicative ballot on industrial action in England The RCN has announced the dates for an indicative ballot on industrial action in England to determine the next steps in its campaign for fair NHS pay