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Tools, guidance and key events for general practice nurses

This King's Fund will provide practical guidance and expert insight into the primary care access plan which marks the first step towards the vision in Fuller Stocktake. Attendees of this conference...

Practice nurses need a fair deal too

‘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...

RCN to ballot members on further strike action

The RCN has written to Health and Social Care Secretary Steve Barclay to inform him that the union will ballot its 280,000 members in England's NHS over further strike action to be held between June...

Identifying and managing osteoporosis: a role for nurses

The NICE quality standards cover priority areas in the management of osteoporosis in adults. (NICE 2017) The four quality statements will provide a framework for the remainder of this article:.

Research Roundup

Spinal cord injury (SCI) causes functional, psychological, and socioeconomic losses, with long-term secondary complications such as bowel management playing an important role in the maintenance of...

Progress in general practice?

‘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...

News Focus

The Joint Committee on Vaccination and Immunisation (JCVI) has confirmed the spring COVID-19 booster campaign will be rolled out. Boosters should be offered to:.

Malaria: an update for nurses in general practice

Endemicity and transmission patterns vary. Despite disruptions to prevention, diagnosis and treatment during the pandemic, countries largely averted further setbacks to malaria control with only...

Urinary tract infection in an older patient: a case study and review

Mrs M, an 87-year-old lady living in a nursing home, was referred to the community ANP by the senior carer. The presenting complaint was reported as dark, cloudy, foul-smelling urine, with new...

COPD: what GPNs need to know from the latest GOLD update

An updated definition of COPD is included in the guidelines, reflecting the symptoms (productive cough and breathlessness) that are linked to persistent, often progressive and non-fully reversible...

Vaccine-preventable food- and water-borne diseases

Poliomyelitis (Polio) is a viral infection that is potentially paralysing and mostly affects the under 5's. This disease is spread via the faecal-oral route and humans are the only natural known host...

Community and collaboration: a Parkinson's nurse shares her leading lights

This initiative is not new, but it works. It is proactive care, through collaboration with patients, their loved ones, and other specialist teams.

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