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Vaccinating outside Section 7a immunisation programmes: who, how and why?

According to attendees at a roundtable discussion in London, an injection of clarity is needed in NHS vaccination policies in order to help guide the actions of health professionals who provide the...

FGM: raising awareness in community-based health practice

‘all procedures that involve partial or total removal of the external female genitalia, or other injury to the female genital organs for non-medical reasons.’ .

The journey to becoming a newly qualified nurse in general practice

After a visit to my own practice nurse, I realised that this was the career for me. I was mid-way through my degree and I had not given practice nursing a second thought until then. I was aware of the...

Flu season is looming: are you prepared?

‘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...

Opportunities for practice nurses when managing heart failure

In most patients, in order to formulate an appropriate treatment plan diagnosis is based on a combination of the following factors:.

Non-tuberculous mycobacterial lung disease in general practice

There are over 170 different NTM species. This number continues to rise as improvements in diagnostic technology occur, for example the use of mycobacterial whole genome sequencing (where the full or...

Recognition and assessment of dementia in primary care

Dementia is an umbrella term that is used to describe a group of symptoms that are characterised by behavioural changes and loss of cognitive and social functioning. It is caused by progressive...

Technology-enabled care in practice: from apps to Skype

In general practice, nurses have been using technology to record patient consultations for some time and familiarity with software has enabled a higher level of record-keeping and more thorough audit,...

Framing obesity: disease status, language and stigma

Obesity is both highly prevalent and visible. Many consider it to be a disease state, and it is also a risk factor for developing other serious, long-term conditions. In the UK, over 26% of adults are...

Less is more when reducing antimicrobial prescribing

AMR arises when the organisms that cause infection evolve methods to survive attempts to kill or suppress them. This can happen naturally, but it is accelerated by the inappropriate use of...

Context is crucial: wading through public health information

Context is crucial when discussing the role of nicotine and its place in starting, and potentially ending, smoking. In England, smoking in adults has declined to 14.7% in 2019, but smoking still...

Who is left behind in cervical screening?

In the UK, there are approximately 13.9 million people with disability and 56% are women with impaired mobility (Department of Work and Pensions and Office for Disability Issues, 2014; Scope, 2019).

NEWS FOCUS

In her final report, Professor Dame Sally Davies, outgoing Chief Medical Officer, called for countries to work together the meet the challenge of global health threats..

The importance of health education

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