A new faculty has been launched by the Queen’s Institute of Community Nursing (QICN) for nurses with an interest in supporting individuals in the health and justice system. The new Faculty of Health and Justice Nursing, launched last week, aims to bring together all nurses and other healthcare professionals to connect, share best practice, and...
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Updated anti-racism and ‘cultural competence’ training should be mandatory for all NHS staff, a government-commissioned report into antisemitism and other forms of racism across the NHS has recommended. Lord John Mann’s review said that the NHS mandatory training module on equality, diversity and human ‘requires urgent updating’ and the specific inclusion of ‘quality assured’ content...
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The British Medical Association (BMA) has written to the health secretary calling for ‘urgent action’ on its concerns over what it has called ‘unsafe and dangerous substitution of doctors’ by advanced practitioners (APs). Comments made by the BMA in recent weeks have been met with criticism from across the nursing community, including from England’s chief...
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Nurses and other healthcare professionals in the UK have been urged to consider Ebola in any acutely unwell patient with a history of fever who has left Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) or Uganda in the previous 21 days. The warning from the UK Health Security Agency (UKHA) comes amid an outbreak of the...
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With syphilis at its highest rate since the 1940s and gonorrhoea edging toward being untreatable, Helen Fifer, consultant microbiologist with the sexually transmitted infection (STI) team at the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) describes the shifting STI landscape and explains what the latest data means for those on the front line of care. Cahal McQuillan...
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At a recent Nursing in Practice conference, clinical fellow pharmacist Darush Attar-Zadeh guided nurses through smoking cessation, vaping, and nicotine replacement options. Here, we distil the key insights from his session and explore the hierarchy of harm he outlined for nicotine alternatives in a post-tobacco era. Declines in smoking prevalence in the UK represent a...
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‘What are you going to do next?’ This was a question I was asked by MPs after we presented the findings of a recent Nursing in Practice report focused on general practice nurse (GPN) pay, terms and conditions in Parliament this week. ‘So, you’ve written your report, what are you going to do with it?’...
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The number of advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), enhanced level practice nurses and nursing associates employed to work in GP practices through the additional roles reimbursement scheme (ARRS) has increased over the last 12 months, new data has shown. There has also been a rise in community mental health nurses and trainee nurses recruited through the scheme....
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Potential changes to the nursing code and revalidation process will be presented by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) next month. The NMC is set to ask its governing council for permission to launch a full public consultation on a suite of proposals on 21 July and, if approved, will consult on the process for...
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A new ‘life-extending’ drug has been added to NHS treatment for hard-to-treat ovarian cancer, NHS England (NHSE) has confirmed. Hundreds of women could benefit from the drug – mirvetuximab soravtansine (Elahere) – which is the first new treatment addition in over 20 years. It will be offered to patients living with ovarian cancer whose disease...
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