Tackling the impact of problem drinking
As the UK’s drinking culture exerts increasing pressure on the NHS, nurses in settings from...
24 Feb 2016
Features
Nurse-led general practice blazes a trail
The nurse-led Cuckoo Lane Surgery in London has been rated outstanding by the Care Quality...
24 Feb 2016
At the vanguard of partnership working
The concluding part of our series on vanguards looks at how integrating services is...
24 Feb 2016
Break down the barriers
North East London NHS Foundation Trust strives to attract black and minority ethnic staff...
17 Feb 2016
Vanguards: support for care home staff
In the second article in our three-part series on vanguards, we look at care homes. Care...
17 Feb 2016
The safety net with too many holes in it
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards (DoLS) were introduced in 2007 to protect the rights of...
17 Feb 2016
Vanguards: the quest for joined-up care
Organisations in vanguard areas are developing new ways of working to improve and integrate...
10 Feb 2016
Better care for men with genital trauma
Mental health nurse Pride Gaka-Chisoro’s award-winning research into soldiers’ experience of...
10 Feb 2016
Amazing courage in the Calais ‘Jungle’
Staff nurse Holly Howe completed a six-week volunteer placement at the Calais migrant camp’s...
10 Feb 2016
Time to break the continence taboo
Millions of people in the UK experience continence problems that can have a devastating...
10 Feb 2016
Shock therapies
Therapies administered by mental health nurses, aimed at ‘curing’ gay people of their sexual...
03 Feb 2016
Zero tolerance for unhealthy attitudes
A report published last year by Stonewall revealed the persistence of negative attitudes to...
03 Feb 2016
LGBT youth missing out on support
According to a Department of Health-funded study young LGBT people are at increased risk of...
03 Feb 2016
Ease the path from acute to community
NICE offers guidelines on how to ensure patients have the social support they need to leave...
27 Jan 2016
A caring approach for people in crisis
Jane Murphy is nurse lead for Operation Emblem, in which mental health nurses work with...
27 Jan 2016
The many benefits of ‘always events’
Simple changes that make a huge difference to patients are being implemented through the...
27 Jan 2016
Getting clever to beat tuberculosis
A pioneering tuberculosis contact tracing project is combating the high number of cases of...
20 Jan 2016
When one question leads to another
From February, NICE guidelines call for enhanced support for patients in emergency...
20 Jan 2016