Health visitors need to adapt local practice as research by the National Children's Bureau finds that children's health is not always linked to economic status.
Practice nurses have huge potential to pave the way for out-of-hospital care, the lead nurse at Health Education England (HEE) has said.
Nurses working in state school settings do not have the same opportunities to attend training and other external events, said the professional lead for children and young people’s nursing at the Royal...
Lincolnshire Community Health Services NHS Trust (LCHS) is urging patients with diabetes to access their specialist services, after figures showed that approximately 40,000 people in the country had...
Conflicting advice and opinions can make it difficult to decide what's best for a newborn baby's skin.
A lack of resources and staff for NHS cancer services is leading to patient’s missing out on early diagnosis of the disease, two reports by Cancer Research UK have found.
Nurses and midwives must ensure that they renew their registration with the NMC before its expiry date, as they may be removed from the register if they fail to do so under new rules.
Nurses and doctors will be able to access a patient's medical records across primary and secondary care setting anywhere in England by the end of 2018, health secretary Jeremy Hunt announced.
Hajj will begin soon. Travellers are at risk of Middle East Respiratory Syndrome, explains Margaret Umeed
Healthcare professionals should question patients with depression on their cognitive function, after a survey found that many of these symptoms are not being picked up.
All pregnant women should have the whooping cough vaccine after new figures from Public Health England have shown that whooping cough levels were still high in England.
Four in five health and social care workers think that their organisation does not have adequate resources to meet patient's care needs, a survey by Dods Research has found.
Nurses will be able to access health checks and excercise classes through a new health and wellbeing initiative for NHS staff launched by NHS England chief executive Simon Stevens.
Yellow fever (YF) is an acute, potentially fatal, viral haemorrhagic disease spread by day-biting mosquitoes. It is endemic in tropical areas of Africa and Latin America.
(MERS-CoV) Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus also termed Camel Flu or EMC/2012. MERS-CoV was first reported in Saudi Arabia in 2012. Approximately 36% of reported patients with MERS have...
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