Emotional stories and discussions of best practice were heard alongside an announcement on standards at the Learning Disability Practice Conference 2017.

11 Oct 2017

Improved training for community palliative care should be a priority, in order to make life more comfortable for the growing number of older old people, researchers have said.

09 Oct 2017

NHS Improvement confirms ten incidents of incorrect or hasty infusion of total parenteral nutrition resulting in severe harm to babies, but says there could be hundreds more cases

03 Oct 2017

London, the south east and Northern Ireland could all face huge workforce issues after Brexit, a new report suggests.

02 Oct 2017

Serious mental health conditions are not fully understood by the public, the Royal College of Psychiatrists (RCP) has said.

29 Sep 2017

A new preceptorship framework for nurses working in London has been launched by the Capital Nurse programme.

29 Sep 2017

Regional advisory networks for Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) issues are to be established in England in a bid to increase understanding of local concerns.

29 Sep 2017

Nominee says nursing is about more than just technical skills.

29 Sep 2017

A mental health guide for the provision of services to help vulnerable migrants has been launched by the charity Mind.

29 Sep 2017

Cancer nursing could be moving towards a UK standard of practice, with nurse training being aligned to the same competency framework.

27 Sep 2017

Tobacco smokers are twice as likely to develop a debilitating skin disease, research suggests.

26 Sep 2017

Event raises awareness of sudden cardiac death.

25 Sep 2017

One in 12 deaths could be prevented by half an hour’s exercise on five days of the week, researchers have claimed.

22 Sep 2017

Nurse and health visitor numbers in England fell by 1,071 in a 12-month period, latest data from NHS Digital revealed.

22 Sep 2017

Wearing health and fitness tracking devices can have a negative effect on children of secondary school age and make them feel extra pressure and stress, researchers say.

22 Sep 2017

A computer algorithm can identify patients at risk of colorectal cancer by checking their records, reducing the need for invasive tests to detect it.

22 Sep 2017

A way of measuring quality of life following cancer treatment to be trialled in a bid to improve care

21 Sep 2017

A shortage of specialist neonatal nurses is being linked by the RCN to the varying regional outcomes for babies found in a new audit.

21 Sep 2017