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Here we are again: time to take on the flu and COVID-19 season!

‘Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...

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Tuberculosis cases in England increased by 7% in the first half of 2023 compared...

Allergic rhinitis and asthma – one airway, one approach

Allergic rhinitis (AR) is a condition which affects the nasal mucosa and, in some cases, other organs including the eyes, palate, and lungs (Hossenbaccus et al 2020). The condition results from an...

Implementing 3rd-year learning disability student nurse-led clinics and evaluating self-efficacy and confidence

Hermeneutic phenomenology was used to explore the theoretical underpinning for the study (Ho et al., 2017). This approach was considered appropriate to examine the phenomena of confidence and...

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Incivility at work includes rudeness, demeaning attitudes, exclusion, and hurtful words, but as Graso (2023) notes in this commentary, while civility should be promoted, ‘[t]he unexamined pursuit of...

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An introduction to forest bathing for practice nurses

Social prescribing is now a central part of primary care. It is defined by NHS England (2020) as ‘an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the...

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Women's health CPD Study day

The highlights programme will include endometriosis in primary care including diagnosis and mangement, practical HRT prescribing, key considerations in contraception, menstrual wellbeing, and breast...

PCN Live 2024

Our largest primary care event, welcoming all Nurses working in primary care including practice nurses, community nurses, nurse practitioners and nurses with a prescribing qualification.

Diabetes CPD Study Day

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Incidences of COVID-19 are rising, with a new variant having been discovered, The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has announced..

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Government plans to modernise and reform primary care progress as more than 1,000 general practices sign up for digital upgrades..

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An introduction to forest bathing for practice nurses

Social prescribing is now a central part of primary care. It is defined by NHS England (2020) as ‘an approach that connects people to activities, groups, and services in their community to meet the...

Capturing the perspectives on treatment of chronic non-cancer pain using non-pharmacological approaches

Some patients with CNCP are treated with opioids amongst other adjuvant pharmacological therapies (BMA 2017, Appendix 1). However, it is commonly found that opioids are ineffective over time resulting...

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Whistleblowers must be supported to prevent future tragedies

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Around 9.1 million people in the UK will be living with major illness by 2040 – an increase of 2.5 million from 2019, according to a new report published by the Health Foundation..

If the Government does not learn to value nurses, they will lose them

The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) became a member of the International Council Of Nurses (ICN) in 2021 and we are delighted to be in the room with so many nurses from around the world, to share and...

It is time to give GPNs the recognition that they deserve

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Direct oral anticoagulants in general practice

DOACs were first licensed in the UK for thromboprophylaxis following orthopaedic surgery. The phase III clinical trials assessed the DOACs (dabigatran, rivaroxaban and apixaban) to be non-inferior to...

Tools, guidance and key events for general practice nurses

The RCN will host its annual research conference on 6 to 8 September at the University of Manchester. This conference is open to anyone interested in nursing research. It will be of interest to...

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Dementia due to brain diseases such as Alzheimer's affects 55 million people, and in the year 2019 alone, represented a cost of US $1.3 trillion globally. This is cited by Daly (2023), who focuses in...

The importance of celebrating GPNs this summer

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Specialist nurse declares pandemic preparations ‘inadequate’ at COVID inquiry

The UK government planned for the wrong pandemic, didn't act on learnings from previous outbreaks and failed to prepare the right protective equipment for respiratory infections like COVID-19,...

Streptococcal infections (Strep A) in primary care settings

Infections caused by Strep A typically come in waves and in previous years outbreaks have occurred around March to April (McKechnie 2022). However, in December 2022, there was a reported increase in...

Pulmonary rehabilitation – an essential part of respiratory care

Pulmonary rehabilitation is an exercise and education programme designed for people with lung disease who experience symptoms of breathlessness (NHS England, 2020). PR is primarily an evidence-based...

Public Health Collaboration Conference

From the United States, professor of cell biology Benjamin Bikman of Utah's Brigham Young University, considered the role of insulin resistance – defined as a reduced response to the hormone insulin –...

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