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Keep up to date with the latest news on nursing in primary care. Updated daily, news will cover policy, clinical guidance, research and education targeted directly at nurses in primary care.

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Trial for new 20-minute COVID-19 swab test launched

Health Secretary Matt Hancock has announced that a new swab test for COVID-19 that provides results in 20 minutes is being trialled

Prime Minister rules out scrapping Immigration Health Surcharge

At Prime Minister’s Questions on Wednesday, Mr Johnson said the NHS ‘needs funding and those contributions actually help us to raise about £900m.’

Primary care networks – the key to a more co-operative NHS?

Primary care networks (PCNs) form a key building block of the NHS long-term plan and bring general practices together to work at scale

A quarter of COVID deaths have been people with diabetes says NHS England

The latest figures from NHS England have revealed that approximately 26% of people who have died of COVID-19 in England had diabetes. As a result, Diabetes UK is calling for support for those with the condition and research into why this population is greatly affected by COVID-19

New end-of-life guidelines will provide ‘care, comfort and relief’ to the frail

?The British Geriatrics Society (BGS) has published a new set of guidelines on end-of-life care to help health care professionals provide high quality, patient-centred care to frail older people

RCN and QNI welcome call for more nurses as ‘coronavirus legacy’

?Nursing leaders have welcomed a call by NHS England for universities to increase places for nurses, and give people interested in the profession more opportunities to sign up, in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic

Tributes paid by politicians and nursing leaders on International Nurses Day

Politicians and nursing leaders have paid tribute to the work of nurses on International Nurses Day, with especial gratitude being shown this year for their vital role within the NHS

Government support for social care needs ‘immediate and long-term attention’, says NHS Confederation

‘This is a reset moment for how public services are delivered, which we cannot afford to waste’, the NHS Confederation has said, adding that the support that the government provides to the social care sector needs both ‘immediate and long-term attention’.

Preparing for the next pandemic

We take a look back to a piece we published in August 2019 on the prospect of a global pandemic, and the plans PHE had to counter it. How did COVID get through the net?

People from deprived areas twice as likely to die from COVID

Data released by the Office of National Statistics has revealed ‘a clear and worrying trend’, according to health think tank, the Health Foundation. ‘That deaths in the most deprived areas are more than double those in the least deprived.’

Minister says UK ‘will either meet or come close’ to its COVID-19 testing target

Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick said that the target was ‘just a stepping stone. We need to go beyond 100,000 but we have now seen a very substantial increase in testing in quite a short period of time’

People with cancer symptoms must not miss out on being checked, urges NHS England

A survey has shown that one in ten people would not contact their GP even if they had symptoms of cancer. This is evidenced by a 76% drop in cancer referrals since February as a result of people not contacting their GP

RCN leaders condemn trolling of nurses for PPE shortage concerns

Nurses active on social media have reported being abused for talking about the issues they are facing during COVID-19, including the lack of PPE.

Coronavirus test website crashes hours after opening

The website that allows key workers to book testing for COVID-19 if they or a family member has symptoms has closed on the same day that it was opened, as demand from key workers quickly outstripped supply

NHS advises public to take vitamin D supplement while in lockdown

With Britain in lockdown as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak, the NHS has updated its advice and recommends people ‘consider taking 10 micrograms of vitamin D a day to keep bones and muscles healthy

Starmer says the Government is ‘way behind the curve’ on COVID-19 testing

Labour leader Sir Keir Starmer has accused the Government of being ‘very slow’ and ‘way behind other European countries’ on testing health care professionals (HCPs) for COVID-19.

NHS Confederation condemns government for making ‘PPE promises it cannot keep’

Delays in the delivery of PPE supplies from Turkey have prompted Niall Dickson, Chief Executive of the NHS Confederation, to say this should be a ‘lesson for the Government’ on making promises before supplies have arrived

The hopes for a cure for COVID-19

The whole world is looking for a cure for COVID-19, Mark Greener looks at what progress has been made

RCN chief demands ‘clear direction’ from NHS on testing

The RCN’s chief executive and general secretary, Dame Donna Kinnair has criticised the haphazard state of coronavirus testing for NHS workers

Student nurses join the fight against COVID-19 as temporary register swells

Health Education England has now received almost 18,000 student nurse and midwife volunteers to join the frontline in combating COVID-19, and the NMC temporary register has now reached over 10,000 registrations from former nurses and midwives and overseas registrants.