Healthcare professionals should consider stress reduction and mindfulness therapies for patients with high blood pressure, researchers say. Based on the latest clinical and scientific evidence, an international panel of experts from 18 countries have made a series of recommendations on effective lifestyle changes that can help manage and prevent high blood pressure. Making time for…
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Social care nurses and colleagues recruited from overseas have been subjected to a ‘significant rise’ in exploitation and abuse, the union Unison has warned. Recent examples have included nurses being handed bills for thousands of pounds if they try to change their jobs, or being left unpaid for their time at work by employers who…
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Independent nurse and chair of New NHS Alliance Heather Henry talks to Alice Harrold about the importance of promoting the profession to GPs and employers

The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will establish an independent oversight group that will report to the super regulator on its work to improve its culture and performance. The news comes as part of an update from NMC chair Sir David Warren who today outlined the regulator’s response to the damning culture review which exposed…
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Ministers must ‘stick to their word’ and show how much they value nursing staff through this year’s NHS pay award, the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said. RCN chief executive and general secretary Professor Nicola Ranger has written to members outlining how an announcement on NHS pay in England – for those on Agenda for…
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Significant failings in the UK’s preparation for a pandemic saw Covid cause more deaths and long-lasting economic damage than it should have, the first report from the Covid-19 inquiry has concluded. Amongst the findings identified by the inquiry was that the Governments of the UK and devolved nations planned for the wrong pandemic, with too…
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Applications to UK nursing programmes are down by more than a quarter in the last three years, latest data from the Universities and Colleges Admissions Service (UCAS) has shown. Figures published today show a continuing decline in the number of nursing applicants in the UK since a peak of interest during the Covid-19 pandemic in…
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A first-of-its-kind strategy has outlined proposals to attract more nurses and nursing associates into social care and has called for a ‘career framework’ outlining the need for NHS pay parity, funded preceptorships and increased employment protection. The new Workforce Strategy published today has been labelled a ‘turning point’ for adult social care in England and…
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Stephen Kinnock will cover adult social care as well as primary and community care under his role as care minister, the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC) has confirmed. The Labour MP for Aberafan Maesteg in Wales was appointed as minister of state of care last week, with his official portfolio being published on…
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The Queen’s Nursing Institute (QNI) has published its ‘essential’ list of priorities for the new government to target within health and care. The five priorities aim to address the demand for more community-based care and focus on the prevention of physical decline alongside the management of long-term health conditions. This comes after the Labour Party…
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