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How much time consultants will spend assessing Modernising Medical Careers trainees is the subject of much debate, with estimates ranging widely, depending on whom you are talking to. Francesca Robinson [...]

Is the private sector making a quick buck out of Private Finance Initiative hospitals or is PFI necessary to deliver high standards of care in modern settings? Francesca Robinson hears [...]

Patient choice is the buzzword at the Department of Health. So what is it exactly? Francesca Robinson reports From August this year, all patients who have waited over six months [...]

With the GMS contract set to change the way staff budgets work, practice nurses need to get involved in decisions about skill mix within their teams. Francesca Robinson is a [...]

Surveys, show that in the UK at any time, up to 10 per cent of people with diabetes will have retinopathy requiring ophthalmological follow up or treatment. Left untreated, between [...]

A new collection of case studies put together by the NHS Beacon Programme, part of the NHS Modernisation Agency, illustrates how sharing learning can accelerate the spread of good practice [...]

One in five practice nurses will retire in the next five years. Many of them face hardship because of poor pensions. Practice nurses who have not paid into a private [...]

Practice nurses are angry that patient group directions have not improved their prescribing rights. NEW legislation that requires health care professionals to supply and administer medicines according to patient group [...]

Nursing unions and the Government have begun their annual war of words about how much nurses should be paid next year as they submit their written evidence to the independent [...]

Will the Government's promise of more cash for nursing solve the workforce problems? THE Government's National Plan for the NHS includes proposals to substantially increase the nursing workforce. It promises [...]

The dynamic role of the modern nurse as practitioner, partner and leader is the central theme of a new vision-setting report (1) commissioned by chief nursing officer Professor Dame Christine [...]

Concern about a decline in the uptake of cervical screening in young women over the past decade has triggered a 250,000 £ national improvement programme. Practice nurses in many areas [...]

The QOF overhaul, which will affect the work of practice nurses, is part of a package of changes that will be made to the General Medical Services (GMS) contract agreed [...]

As healthcare becomes more complex and treatments change, there will be an increasing need for highly educated nurses to lead and shape the health services of the future. This is [...]

A recent decision to approve the first UK reclassification of a systemic antibiotic to make it available from pharmacies without a prescription has alarmed infectious disease specialists. The move comes [...]