RCN Chair of Council Carol Popplestone described them as ‘sensible measures’ which were ‘key to cutting the risk of increased hospitalisations and reducing transmission'
The idea of the people who set the rules not playing by them is always infuriating to the public
How has COVID-19 affected treatment for the most common cancer in men
What national policymakers do to protect people who use and provide adult social care still matters – and the scale of the impact of COVID-19 on social care was not inevitable
All 16 and 17-year-olds in the UK are to start receiving a first dose of COVID vaccination within weeks, the Government has announced. ‘There is no time to waste in getting on with this,’ said...
Mandatory vaccination among social care staff would undoubtedly reduce the risk of COVID-19 transmission and illness among patients, visitors, other staff and broader communities, so why has this...
The clinch that brought down Matt Hancock was the sort of awkward fumble more often seen in the school disco than in the old News of the World, and yet to the public it was infinitely more obscene. Mr...
There is nothing our current Prime Minister likes to do more than play Father Bountiful – even if he does give the impression of someone who is much happier writing cheques, than he is honouring them
Research is beginning to identify drugs that may prevent or treat COVID-19, some of which have seemingly unlikely origins
If the crisis point for healthy care professionals of the early pandemic was the lack of adequate PPE, the current one is of mental health
The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will reintroduce emergency education standards to enable final year nursing students to opt in to support the response to the COVID-19 pandemic, via extended...
The Government announced on Friday afternoon that its R number, which measures the rate of infection from COVID-19 has fallen to below 1 for the first time since August. This means the pandemic is no...
The RCN has delivered a cool response to figures released by NHS which show that the number of nurses in England has increased by 13,718 compared with last year
If they were your patients, you’d probably be advising them to stay home right now, but in the US two men in their Seventies are vying to become President
Prime Minister Boris Johnson has said the UK faces an ‘unquestionably difficult winter’ as rising rates of COVID-19 have prompted a new wave of restrictions across all four countries
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