This website is intended for healthcare professionals
This website is intended for healthcare professionals
At the start of my career, there were ongoing discussions about the need for learning disability nurses, and these conversations have persisted over the years. Despite these debates, in the evolving...
Clean intermittent self-catheterisation (CISC) has long been considered the gold standard for bladder drainage (Nazarko, 2024). Royal College of Nursing (RCN) (2021) guidance on catheter care...
The prevalence of diabetes has increased globally, with significant implications for healthcare organisations. According to Diabetes UK, more than 5 million people in the UK are living with diabetes,...
Trauma does not occur in isolation, but within the context of community and the social determinants of health (SDOH), which includes factors such as economic stability, education, and social and...
According to the WHO (2023), 41 million people die each year from non-communicable diseases, which it highlights is equivalent to 74% of all deaths globally. Non-communicable diseases, such as...
The first key area to understand is the difference between learning and ‘performing’. At university, you want to ensure that you are learning information. However, you will often find that you are...
One of the significant projects under BHSCA is the establishment of the Buckinghamshire Community Wellbeing Hubs, in partnership with Buckinghamshire New University (BNU) and initially funded by NHS...
An earlier audit (Kidney Transplantation: Pitfalls and Ways to Improve) (Fernandez, and Banerjee, 2016) was presented at UK Kidney Week 2016. This showed that waiting for two referrals – a clinic...
No doubt the final Dash report on the CQC will also find that the NHS health regulatory, governance framework, patient safety system is too complex, overlapping, fragmented and ripe for reform. This...
Students frequently reach out before starting their clinical placements with various concerns. Nurses should be receptive and engaging with these inquiries, responding to alleviate anxieties and...
The summer has seen changes … a change of government, a change of health secretary and a change in policies. The proposed salary increases for healthcare staff, which at the time of writing are still...
‘The vast majority of persons with a diabetes-related foot ulcer will have neuropathy. Peripheral artery disease (PAD), generally caused by atherosclerosis, is present in up to 50% of these patients...
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