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How to tackle the taboos of FGM
Birmingham midwife Alison Byrne runs a clinic for women affected by FGM. It provides help...
23 Sep 2015
Be prepared for revalidation
Revalidation aims to build a culture of continuous improvement. This article seeks to dispel...
23 Sep 2015
A generation gap in career expectations
Health Education West Midlands’ project Every Student Counts has investigated the impact of...
16 Sep 2015
Preparing to fly into the Twittersphere
So what is this thing called Twitter? Most people have heard of it, some are old hands at...
16 Sep 2015
Thinking big on quality
The Northern Ireland Practice and Educational Council for nursing and midwifery is a small...
16 Sep 2015
When fear becomes the barrier to care
A pilot clinic run by Barts Health NHS Trust in London offers cervical screening and...
09 Sep 2015
Feel-good factor of a healthy workforce
New guidance from NICE recommends that employees’ health and wellbeing should be a core...
09 Sep 2015
The little things that are the big things
Sharon Finn, a senior healthcare assistant at St Joseph’s Hospice in Hackney, London, has...
02 Sep 2015
We took up the fight against Ebola
Following the Ebola outbreak in west Africa last year, UK military nurses joined the...
02 Sep 2015
Consultant role bridges the gap
Little is known about how many people in the UK have both cancer and dementia, and support...
26 Aug 2015
Trust trials new model of testing competency
In April 2016, the Nursing and Midwifery Council’s new revalidation model will come into...
26 Aug 2015
Challenging people’s ideas
Amanda Derbyshire’s work in improving the physical health of patients with mental illness...
26 Aug 2015
Years of experience to bring to the bank
Elizabeth Browse retired after 40 years, but missed caring for patients so much that she...
19 Aug 2015
Keeping fit for purpose
Walton Centre NHS Foundation Trust in Liverpool has introduced a popular programme of...
19 Aug 2015
A brave approach paid dividends
A suspected deep tissue injury in a frail older patient alerted senior sister Gemma Smallman...
19 Aug 2015
Better care ahead for infants and parents
Karine Latter has developed national nursing standards for infants born with Pierre Robin...
12 Aug 2015
Miners’ nurse recalls going down the pit
A new book tells the story of former Yorkshire pit nurse Joan Hart, who earned the respect...
12 Aug 2015
In the front line of risk from violence
Violence perpetrated by patients against nurses can have devastating effects, and leads to...
12 Aug 2015