Managing diverticular disease in primary care settings

Margaret Perry looks at how nurses can diagnose this condition in older patients.

Exeter diabetes nurse wins international award for transformative research

Professor Maggie Shepherd of Royal Devon University Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust and University of Exeter won the $250,000 prize ahead of over 50,000 medical colleagues from around the world.

Managing leg ulcers in a primary care setting

Linda Nazarko looks at how nurses can identify and treat these common but painful wounds.

What’s new for MMR? An update for primary care nurses

Catherine Heffernan looks at how MMR immunisations are changing in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic.

The suffocating cost of poverty

Alina Khan looks at how socioeconomic factors are still affecting the nation’s respiratory health

ICN launch 'Our Nurses, Our Future' campaign on International Nurses Day

The ‘Our Nurses, Our Future’ campaign aims to shine a light on a brighter future for nursing.

NICE recommends two 'life-changing' technologies for children with Type 2 diabetes

For the first time, new NICE guidance has recommended the use of real-time continuous glucose monitoring or intermittently scanned glucose monitoring devices for some children who live with the...

Community pharmacies given new powers to prescribe as part of Primary Care Recovery Plan

By next winter people with seven common conditions including earache, sore throat and urinary tract infections will be able to access the service

New report reveals 2 million people with diabetes not receiving adequate care

UK government missed opportunities to prepare social care for COVID-19 pandemic

A report published by the Nuffield Trust and London School of Economics focused on the first four months of the pandemic and examined the issues which emerged in the sector.

UKHSA urges parents to check children's MMR records are up to date as measles cases rise

Between 1 January and 20 April this year, there have been 49 cases of measles compared to 54 cases being recorded for the whole of 2022.

RCN to ballot members on further strike action

The RCN has written to Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay to inform him that the union will ballot its 280,000 members in England’s NHS over further strike action to be held between June...

Public warned to be vigilant, as thousands of COVID-19 cases reported each week

Experts are warning that COVID-19 has ‘not gone away’, with elderly patients still at risk from the virus

RCN reacts angrily as High Court rules 2 May strike illegal

The ruling comes after the UK government asked the High Court to assess whether the last day of the RCN’s planned strike action fell outside of their six-month mandate for strikes.

Up to 170,000 young people undiagnosed with hypertension, says ONS

The statistics revealed that 66% of males and 26% of females aged 16 to 24 with high blood pressure were particularly likely to be undiagnosed