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Ellen McPake: We must protect patients from the internet's bogus cures and misinformation

Inaccurate and misleading online health information manipulates vulnerable people. Nurses have a duty to meet it head on, says Macmillan Cancer Support’s first digital nurse specialist.
Posted 14 November 2017 - 06:27
 
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