With a growing need for community care, nurses wanting to return to practice can make a difference. But how can nurses re-enter the profession and what does returning to practice really involve?

Junior doctors are escalating their strike action in the dispute over a new contract in the first full walkout of doctors during a 48-hour strike planned next month

The current research highlighted in the Daily Express, argues for the use of 800 calorie/day diets for a limited period of time, liquid based, with vitamin supplements

Ticks carrying the bacteria ‘Borrelia’ causing Lyme disease are endemic throughout the UK, and reports of Lyme disease have been steadily increasing with the infection acquired in woodlands, moorlands and parks

If a nurse makes a mistake but acknowledges it and apologises, they will get credit for it from the Nursing Midwifery Council, Jeremy Hunt announced as part of a shift to transparency

Primary nurses and allied health professionals involved in the care of children and young people play a pivotal role in supporting them

The cuts to local support for mums could damage the plans for improved maternal mental health, a union of mental health nurses warned

With winter being the prime time for admissions to hospital, Northumbria Healthcare look at the improvements their emergency care centre has made

Like advisors in stop smoking services, nurses will see patients who have smoked all their lives, have tried and failed to quit, and those who have become disheartened

Colorectal cancer is the third most common cancer in both men and women and accounted for 41,581 cases in the UK in 2011