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Toolkits to help employers prevent suicides

Public Health England (PHE) has joined forces with Business in the Community and the Samaritans to produce toolkits for employers on how to prevent suicide

Sky wards and flying Nightingales: Nursing in the RAF

RCN (Wales) presents an evening event looking at the past, present and future of nursing in the RAF

Children will benefit from having a happier dad

We cannot change the male psyche of pride and shame. If they don’t come to us, how do we go to them?

Your views will help the NHS improve community nursing

Within the QNI networks, there has for some time been a growing level of concern about the capacity and organisation of the community nursing workforce to meet the needs of the changing profile of our...

Self-management: At the core of asthma care

Supported asthma self-management — which includes patient education, an action plan and regular review — seems to reduce the need for hospital services and unscheduled consultations, according to a...

Moisturisers: Effective in eczema

In people with eczema, moisturisers prolong time to flare, reduce the number of flares and are steroid sparing, according to a Cochrane review of 77 RCTs with a mean duration of 6.7 weeks. The studies...

Next step to tackle childhood mental health revealed

New steps are set to be taken to make sure children and young people don’t have as far to travel for mental health services, as announced by NHS England

'Nurse First' initiative to encourage grads into nursing announced

A new programme to attract high-achieving graduates into a nursing career has been announced by NHS England

Primary care reforms will see more seven-day GPs and mental health expansion

The next push for primary care reform has been announced to include the expansion of seven-day GPs and mental health services, NHS England has announced

NHS forced into U-turn on agency bans by nurses' outrage

Nurses’ outrage over proposed bans on agency shifts has forced the NHS to announce a ‘pause’ on their plans

NHS hit by mass exodus with EU nurses in wake of Brexit

European Union (EU) nurses are leaving the NHS en masse, according to figures revealed by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

HIV tests ‘should become routine’ in high-risk areas

HIV testing could become routine in new quality standards being drafted up in an effort to reduce transmission of the virus

Gap between living cost and wages across UK ‘widening’ for nurses

Government recommendations to raise NHS employees’
pay by 1% has been called a ‘bitter blow to nursing staff’ by the Royal College of Nursing (RCN)

'50/50 by 2020': Key NHS board positions still go to men over women

Key roles in the NHS are still predominantly going to men, though progress has been made towards its promised goal of ‘50/50 by 2020’

Psychiatrist recommends screening pregnant women for drinking and substance abuse

Pregnant women should be screened for substance abuse, a psychiatrist in South Africa told an international congress

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