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The Royal College of Nurses is set to host the Women's Health Conference on 6 December in London. This year's theme is Inequalities in Women's Health - seizing the cusp of change and aims to examine...

Student nurse placements in general practice – Are we ready?

‘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...

Understanding HIV – A guide for primary care nurses

Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus (infection with either HIV-1 or HIV-2) it destroys CD4+ lymphocytes and impairs cell-mediated immunity, increasing risk of certain infections and cancers....

An overview of diabetes-related foot ulcers

DFU has been defined by the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot as a break of the skin of the foot that includes the epidermis and part of the dermis in a person with diabetes (Bus et al,...

To determine the effects of burnout and compassion fatigue on registered nurses' ability to deliver patient care

A narrative review methodology was used following the standards of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines (PRISMA, 2020). A comprehensive search of...

The importance of vaccination season has never been greater

‘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

Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea is rapidly increasing in prevalence and could become ‘untreatable’ in the future, health officials have warned.

An evaluation of a quality improvement initiative examining benefits and enablers and challenges and barriers of implementing and embedding core clinical supervision in primary care

An on-line Jisc survey (2019) which permitted the capture of information from a cohort of primary care practitioners who have already engaged in the core supervision model training online, from an...

GLP-1 receptor agonists and their role in managing type 2 diabetes

The World Health Organization (2024) defines diabetes as a chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which over time can lead to serious damage to...

RESEARCH ROUNDUP

With healthcare facing increasing demands and scarce resources, the hospital at home (HaH) concept is an innovative care strategy, providing eligible patients with specialised care at home. In this...

A new era for primary care is ahead of us

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

England's health and social care watchdog is ‘not fit for purpose, according to the new Health and Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting, pledging immediate action to ‘grip the crisis’..

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