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Effective workplace cultures make an organisation a good place to work. The National Guardian Office annual report stated that 38.5% of the total cases raised with Freedom to Speak Up (FTSU) guardians...
‘The use of online booking of appointments, renewal of prescriptions and...
It is not unreasonable to expect that given the unavoidability and inevitability (of death, at least), the UK, as a well-developed, relatively rich and stable Western economy, with a historically...
Some challenges were anticipated when searching for literature relevant to this topic. There are many different titles, terms and professions to consider when defining an independent prescriber...
The underlying causes of a fall are often multifactorial, with the World Health Organization (WHO) (2007) suggesting that risks can be grouped into four categories: biological, behavioural,...
The key function of the respiratory system is to distribute oxygen to the tissues, enabling the cells to produce energy through aerobic respiration and to remove waste products, primarily carbon...
The incidence and prevalence of type 2 diabetes (T2D) is increasing at an alarming rate across Europe and North America, presenting a mounting crisis and significant health challenges. Alongside the...
‘Despite the proven efficacy and strong promotion of the childhood COVER programme, its uptake has fallen to dangerously low levels in some areas. Population immunity is no longer sufficiently high...
Diabetes in the UK is at an all-time high and its management therefore forms an increasing component of the district nursing workload. In a study, Martin et al distributed a survey to district nursing...
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It is widely accepted that the modern hospice movement was founded 50 years ago with St Christopher's Hospice in 1967. Like any another quinquagenarian may attest, any and/or many years of preceding...
Over the last few years, co-production has increasingly become a more prominent term used by the UK health service to describe partnership working with patients. Community nurses, because of the...
This commentary aims to critically appraise the methods used within the review by Islam et al (2022) and expand on the findings in the context of community nursing and clinical research..
According to the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE), a long-term condition is one that lasts for over one year and significantly impacts a person's life (NICE, 2016a). Long-term...
Adverse drug reactions are ‘unintended, harmful events attributed to the use of medicines’ (Coleman and Pontefract, 2016). Ageing affects the body's ability to absorb and excrete medicines and...
A network of inter-related pathologic strands drives AD, including dysfunction of the skin barrier, marked immune dermatological responses, changes in the skin microbiome, as well as exposure to...
Patients are usually discharged before they are fully recovered and ready to resume normal activities. Whether this includes physical activities or return to daily routines and work or school, the...
‘The 2021 Census…found that there were 4.7 million unpaid carers in England and another 310 000 carers in Wales as of 21 March 2021. This equates to 8.9%, and 10.5% respectively of the usual...
Sleep is essential for all human functions. Disturbances in sleep are often overlooked when discussing risk factors for diseases. While the specific association remains unclear, sleep issues have been...
The death of a partner can lead to sexual loss, grief and bereavement. Adults aged over 65 years make up between 34–48% of widowed adults across the globe (Radosh and Simkin, 2016); these individuals...
Dying is an inevitable part of life; the dying process has for many years been a medicalised process, and to a greater extent, the law has been shaped by the medical approach to death and dying. To...
There is a gap in the evidence base, which explores trainee district nurses' views of the palliative care key worker role they adopt upon qualification. An exploratory descriptive qualitative design...
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Obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) is considered to afflict 1-4% of the population in their lifetime, with little variation in gender or geography (National Institute for Health and Care Excellence...
The lymphatic system is a network of vessels, tissues and organs that work together as part of the immune system to remove cellular waste and toxins. The lymphatic system helps to maintain body fluid...
The prevalence of elder abuse is often underestimated as a result of under-reporting, social stigma and lack of awareness. According to the World Health Organization (2022a; 2022b), approximately 1 in...
The technology revolution is not necessarily new. Initiatives like the shift from a paper-based model to a digital e-community service model were implemented in 2019 in the Whittington Health NHS...
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