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Does the community have capacity for more diagnostics?

‘Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...

Strategies to promote cervical screening for an aging demographic: a global insight

Cervical cancer epidemiology informs nursing practice through identifying at-risk groups and key risk factors. The use of this information, along with demographic data, is vital in identifying the...

A guide in undertaking core clinical supervision: Supervisors' experiences in implementing core clinical supervision in general practice

Core Clinical Supervision is focussed at providing a restorative activity to assist in fostering confidence and enhancing care delivery within primary care settings. Its introduction was in line with...

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The re-emergence of the peripatetic educator in general practice

As there is a strong need of flexibility to manage a workforce to align with organisational change involving a people strategy, thus the peripatetic educator role was reintroduced to primary care due...

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The prognosis for colorectal cancer (CRC) depends on stage at diagnosis, but although CRC screening programmes exist in many countries, the diagnoses of most CRC cases are based on symptom...

Should we be thinking about assisted dying?

“Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...

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The ‘world's-first’ vaccine against vomiting bug norovirus is set to be trialled in the UK.

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HIV transmission, prevention, treatment and care: part two

Between 2022 and 2023, the number of people tested in all sexual health services rose compared to testing levels seen in 2019. Compared to 2019, there was a decline in the number of heterosexual and...

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In 2019 in the UK, an estimated 885,000 people were living with dementia. Although people can still live well with dementia, exercise is one of the approaches that can help both with the management of...

Tools, guidance and key events for general practice nurses

The Royal College of Nurses is set to host the Women's Health Conference on 6 December in London. This year's theme is Inequalities in Women's Health - seizing the cusp of change and aims to examine...

Student nurse placements in general practice – Are we ready?

‘Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...

Understanding HIV – A guide for primary care nurses

Human Immunodeficiency Virus is a retrovirus (infection with either HIV-1 or HIV-2) it destroys CD4+ lymphocytes and impairs cell-mediated immunity, increasing risk of certain infections and cancers....

An overview of diabetes-related foot ulcers

DFU has been defined by the International Working Group on Diabetic Foot as a break of the skin of the foot that includes the epidermis and part of the dermis in a person with diabetes (Bus et al,...

To determine the effects of burnout and compassion fatigue on registered nurses' ability to deliver patient care

A narrative review methodology was used following the standards of the Preferred Reporting Items for Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis (PRISMA) guidelines (PRISMA, 2020). A comprehensive search of...

The importance of vaccination season has never been greater

‘Practice Nursing provides nurses working in general practice with the tools to reach their full potential and deliver the best possible care to their patients. Our monthly journal informs and...

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Antibiotic-resistant gonorrhoea is rapidly increasing in prevalence and could become ‘untreatable’ in the future, health officials have warned.

An evaluation of a quality improvement initiative examining benefits and enablers and challenges and barriers of implementing and embedding core clinical supervision in primary care

An on-line Jisc survey (2019) which permitted the capture of information from a cohort of primary care practitioners who have already engaged in the core supervision model training online, from an...

GLP-1 receptor agonists and their role in managing type 2 diabetes

The World Health Organization (2024) defines diabetes as a chronic, metabolic disease characterised by elevated levels of blood glucose (or blood sugar), which over time can lead to serious damage to...

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With healthcare facing increasing demands and scarce resources, the hospital at home (HaH) concept is an innovative care strategy, providing eligible patients with specialised care at home. In this...

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