Primary care

Nurses and other clinicians are being given a new cholesterol target for patients with cardiovascular disease (CVD) in the hope of preventing further cases of stroke or heart attack.

Practice nurses have been urged to “lead change” in their organisations this Remembrance Day to support veterans who may be silently struggling with their mental or physical health.

A general practice nurse has been struck off after she gave spare Covid-19 vaccine doses to friends, even though they were not eligible at the time.

Lack of recognition, feeling undervalued and lack of involvement in decision-making are three key areas that need to be addressed if practice nurse retention is to be improved, a study suggests.

A senior figure in the Royal College of Nursing has written to the government to demand general practice nurses are not “denied” a pay rise over a lack of funding.

Health unions have aired concerns over some primary care nurses receiving smaller pay rises than others – or none at all – despite much-delayed funding for GP practice staff pay rises finally being confirmed.