Cancer Nursing Practice
Raising the profile of mesothelioma in Wales
Earlier this year, Sarah Morgan was appointed as mesothelioma clinical nurse specialist (CNS) for Wales.
25 Oct 2017
Julie Penfold
Primary Health Care
Nurse-led IV clinic brings treatment to the community while improving care and efficiency
Patients in Swansea who are mobile and require ongoing intravenous antibiotics can now receive their treatment via a nurse-led community clinic.
27 Sep 2017
Primary Health Care
Free patient transport service eases social isolation for over 75s
An innovative practice project is using a transport service to reduce social isolation for its most vulnerable patients.
01 Sep 2017
Primary Health Care
School nurse champions lead the way in promoting adolescent nutrition advice
The School and Public Health Nurses Association and Northumbria University have devised a training programme to improve the nutritional health advice offered to young people by school nurses.
07 Jun 2017
Primary Health Care
How a nurse-led centre improved wound healing rates
An innovative new care centre has helped to ease patient demand on hospitals with a four-day...
05 May 2017
Primary Health Care
Nurses working in the community urged to think sepsis
New NICE guidance urges professionals working across all healthcare settings, including...
05 Apr 2017
Primary Health Care
Redesigned regional community nursing service showcased nationally
How nurses from Rotherham Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH) are putting community nursing in the spotlight to showcase their work on a national level.
01 Mar 2017
Mental Health Practice
Nurse comedian blows the whistle on poor dementia care
Nurse uses comedy to deliver a serious message about dementia care.
12 Sep 2016
Primary Health Care
On hand support providing end of life care at home
Night time service 'helping patients to stay in their preferred place of care and in...
02 Sep 2016
Nursing Standard
Standard care by day and by night
Nurses at a London trust are working together to make sure that patients receive the same...
24 Aug 2016
Mental Health Practice
Technology and young people's mental health
Concerns grow for well-being of children as survey reveals easy and accidental access to pornographic, self-harm and suicide websites
08 Jul 2016
Mental Health Practice
What effect is the digital world having on our young people?
Concerns grow for well-being of children as survey reveals easy and accidental access to pornographic, self-harm and suicide websites.
05 Jul 2016
Primary Health Care
Community receives nurse-led mobile cancer treatment
Cancer patients across the north west of England are benefiting from reduced waiting times and treatment closer to home thanks to the Christie NHS Foundation Trust’s mobile chemotherapy unit
28 Apr 2016
Primary Health Care
Better primary care for special needs patients
Primary care patients with learning disabilities in Doncaster are benefiting from the introduction of GP information resource packs. The packs, developed by the community learning disabilities health action team at Rotherham, Doncaster and South Humber NHS Foundation Trust (RDaSH), aim to improve patient communication and understanding of health matters
30 Mar 2016
Learning Disability Practice
Resource packs help allay patient fears about GP visits
Primary care patients with learning disabilities in Doncaster are benefiting from new GP information resource packs. These are designed to improve communication and enhance GPs’ understanding of the health requirements of this patient group
29 Feb 2016
Primary Health Care
Nurse-led dementia liaison service acts as bridge to secondary care
GP practices in Stoke-on-Trent and across North Staffordshire are benefiting from the support of dementia primary care liaison nurses as part of a new community service. Introduced in September last year, the nurse-led service, ran by North Staffordshire Combined Healthcare NHS Trust, acts as a bridge between primary health care and secondary mental health services
25 Feb 2016
Primary Health Care
Urgent care centre brings profound changes in nurses’ roles
Nottingham's urgent care centre (UCC) opened its doors for the first time last October, replacing a nurse-led walk-in centre at Seaton House in the city centre. The UCC provides enhanced services, including electrocardiography and X-ray facilities, to assess and treat urgent but non-life-threatening conditions.
02 Feb 2016
Primary Health Care
Family nurses focus on needs of young first-time mothers
A team of family nurses is helping young parents to learn English and integrate into their local community as part of the east London borough of Newham’s Family Nurse Partnership (FNP), an optional home visiting programme for first-time mothers under the age of 19.
27 Nov 2015