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Emeritus Professor of Community Nursing, King's College London, Florence Nightingale Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery and Fellow of the QNI
‘Widowers and widows desired support to achieve inclusion and togetherness while being reluctant to ask for help, which suggests that both community nurses and families can help identify those who...
𠄘It would be good if normality after the pandemic retains the successful innovations, partnerships with voluntary organisations and recognition of the health service and healthcare providers as...
While each coastal community reflects its unique blend of history and culture as well as its geography, old resort towns and old fishing and trading ports may share common challenges that are...
‘It will require the NHS and its staff, in addition to persuasive information campaigns, to promote yet another mass vaccination effort during the autumn, so that as many of the potentially vulnerable...
‘The retention of older district nurses within the workforce will be critical for retaining wisdom and expertise as well as for educating new and replacement registered nurses entering community...
The range of psychological, physical and contextual barriers to vaccination uptake are set out in a previous paper (While, 2021).
‘Community nurses can make the difference to their clients' lives by building on their existing strong rapport to engage in intimate professional conversations so that constipation can be identified...
The WHO commissioned a systematic review due to concern related to influenza vaccine hesitancy across the globe, which was particularly evident during the 2009–2010 H1N1 pandemic (WHO, 2016). The...
‘… biases have consequences, including the danger that they may result in misleading estimates of treatment effects, so that clinicians overestimate the relative efficacy of a treatment, which is...
‘More deaths than previously have been caused by tramadol, codeine, dihydrocodeine and oxycodone, with concerns that the lockdown will have resulted in more stop-gap analgesia prescriptions from GPs...
There is evidence that social touch between people can reduce stress and have a calming effect in adults, with a reduction of psychobiological stress responses due to neuro-physiological and endocrine...
‘… it will be especially important to maintain consistent public health messaging about the personal and societal value of COVID-19 and influenza vaccinations and other protective measures'. .
‘The growing success of the COVID-19 mass vaccination programme is a reason for optimism, but older people will continue to reach the end of their lives because of infections, progressive organ...
‘Perhaps we need to learn to manage uncertainty and accept that not all actions can be based on ‘evidence’, because the evidence and scientific knowledge, including the impact of full lockdowns...
‘… it is likely that there will be several more months of high demand on NHS services and uncertainty for both the general population and healthcare staff.’ .
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