Celebrating partnership working between the third sector and the NHS

Bliss was launched in 1979, initially to raise money for equipment such as incubators for premature babies and those requiring care in neonatal units. The charity has since provided much more than...

Safety and learning reports: an invaluable resource for healthcare staff

NHS Resolution (formerly the NHS Litigation Authority) has excellent patient safety and clinical negligence resources and learning materials, and should be viewed as a priority resource. The...

Should there be compulsory childhood immunisation?

The Health Secretary has recently suggested that the government would not rule out compulsory vaccinations in England to overcome the public health risk caused by lowered immunisation rates (Mohdin,...

Implementation of the Future Nurse standards in higher education

Contextualising NMC national strategy, Dr Elaine Inglesby Burke and Professor Margaret Rowe then described their experiences of developing and implementing a new undergraduate nursing curriculum based...

Hospital food: raise standards, cut costs

Gender-based violence

A best practice cost avoidance initiative

Antipyretic drugs in patients with fever and infection: literature review

A literature search was undertaken in July 2017 using both the Cumulative Index to Nursing and Allied Health Literature (CINAHL) and Medline databases (2010-2017). Keywords were searched, using...

A nurse-led rheumatology telephone advice line: service redesign to improve efficiency and patient experience

The RLBUHT rheumatology helpline was re-designed in September 2012 to align the service with RCN recommendations and address the concerns identified through the internal review..

The experience of NHS care for women living with female genital mutilation

The aim of this study was to explore the views of women who have recently accessed NHS care and belong to communities that practise FGM..

Embedding knowledge into non-medical prescribing education

Nurse prescribing is an area of professional development that has been a priority for specialist practitioners since it was introduced in the Crown report (Department of Health (DH), 1999). Nurse...

Pain management in new amputees: a nursing perspective

Good quality pain management will result in reduced pain severity, adequate pain relief, low functional interference, few adverse effects from pain or its treatment, and patient satisfaction with...