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One of UK’s oldest nurses retires after more than 60 years of service
Colleagues have paid tribute to a school nurse who has retired from Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust (WWL) after more than 60 years in the profession.
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Top UK nurses, and other health leaders, have demanded that the Home Office reverse a new rule which only allows refugees one week to find a home before being evicted from government housing.
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Every child in the UK should receive a routine chickenpox vaccination, a committee which advises on immunisation has urged.
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A new career pathway for health visiting has been published, to be used as a tool for workforce planning amid government ambitions to increase the number of nurses in the specialty.
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The chief nursing officer at NHS England has revealed that she is taking over professional leadership of public health nurses.
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A committee which advises on immunisation has urged the government to bring in routine vaccination programmes for those most at risk of gonorrhoea and mpox.
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Nurse leaders have welcomed a promise made in the King’s Speech 2023 to push ahead with a tobacco ban but they criticised the lack of measures to “address the crisis in the nursing workforce”.
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The impact of online health information and how to guide patients to quality-assured information.
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This study highlights the impact of Covid-19 on the wellbeing of nurses. Researchers emphasise the need for society to recognise the sacrifices made and compensate staff accordingly.
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Student nurses are familiar with a hybrid approach to learning. This small-scale research study suggests online and face-to-face blended learning could benefit nurse education.
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As nursing practices and policies have evolved, including recent advances such as non-medical authorisation of blood components, this article discusses how the nurse’s role in transfusion practices has developed
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The Green Team Competition is a quality-improvement initiative that helps health professionals consider greener ways of working
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How sustainable care models and quality improvement initiatives, along with options for more sustainable ways to live, are ways of taking action in the face of a climate emergency
