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Have you read an impressive paper this year that you think deserves recognition? To be eligible to win Research Paper of the Year, the content must relate to research undertaken [...]

The Royal College of General Practitioners and Merck Sharp & Dohme are inviting nominations for research paper of the year. An award of 1,000 £ will be made for a [...]

It can be a rude awakening if you have enrolled on a nursing degree course and now find your passion for helping people buried under a pile of essays and [...]

Cancer charities have drawn up a 'green paper' setting out their hopes for a second national cancer plan for England. The Cancer Campaigning Group, composed of 29 charities, says the [...]

Everyone referred to a genito-urinary medicine clinic from 2008 onwards will have an appointment within 48 hours, the public health white paper promises. The national screening programme for chlamydia will [...]

The government's green paper on the future of children's services in England includes the following proposals: * Standards will be introduced to improve access to and the standard of maternity [...]

GOVERNMENT PLANS to introduce tuition fees for higher education courses must not be applied to nursing students, the RCN has said. In its response to the White Paper The Future [...]

PROPOSALS TO reform the NHS in Scotland will fail to deliver their objective of improving patient care unless nurse shortages are tackled, the RCN has warned. A White Paper, Partnership [...]

Green-fingered residents of a local nursing home are in the final of a national gardening competition. Okay, this might not knock the Middle East off the front pages but it [...]

Blimey, I never knew a ban on smoking could be so complicated. I assumed that to ban something the government just went ahead and banned it. But no, it is [...]

PETER O'HALLORAN, lecturer at Queen's University Belfast, looked at the role of hip protectors in preventing hip fractures among nursing home residents (2.1.1). Although early trials of hip protectors suggested [...]

A radical shake-up of school nursing services was ordered by the government last week as part of its plan to improve public health in England. In its public health white [...]

On Sunday March 14 the Sunday Express and the Sunday Times carried stories on the government's plans to curb the UK's 'binge drinking' culture. Social factors such as violence and [...]

On Sunday November 30 the Sunday Mirror reported on the poverty trap many pensioners are caught in--struggling to buy food and clothes. Community nurses see the effects of this hardship [...]

On Sunday November 9, the Express, People, Daily Mail and Mirror all featured Clare Short calling for 'hard drugs ... to be freely available on the NHS'. While the intent [...]

Over the past few days almost every national newspaper has covered the story of the England football team and Rio Ferdinand's missed drug test. Many questions have been raised, and [...]

With the start of the political party conference season the NHS and health are getting more media coverage. On Sunday September 21, the Observer and Sunday Express ran with the [...]

Literature searching involves locating material relevant to your topic, Lquiring it and then making some sense of the research. But how do you judge the quality of the research reported [...]

I expect to see a welcome increase in the number of hospital beds available in this neck of the woods over the coming months. For this, I am told, is [...]

THE TROUBLE with planning things likely to happen some years into the future is that you may change your mind along the way. That is an argument given by opponents [...]

I am one of those who makes lots of resolutions--start off at the gym, tidy my office, get organised and feel feng shui-ed for a week or so--then I drift [...]