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3 days ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
General practice nurses (GPNs) must not be expected to wait any longer for news on their pay for 2025/26, the chief executive and general registrar of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has said today. In a keynote address at RCN Congress today, Professor Nicola Ranger demanded an update on pay for those in the NHS and general practice, and stressed that all nurses needed a ‘significant pay rise’ urgently.
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4 days ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
A ‘pattern of inequity’ within nursing across the globe must be urgently addressed to achieve universal healthcare, a major report from the World Health Organization (WHO) has warned. Today on International Nurses Day, the WHO has published its second State of the World’s Nursing (SOWN) report – setting out the latest data, trends and challenges within nursing across 194 countries.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
All GP practices in England will receive training on how best to support veterans of war, the government has announced. Covering mental health services in addition to GP practices, the training programme will cost £1.8m, starting in October this year and completing by 2027/28.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
The government must reverse the ‘substantial and damaging’ decline in school nurse numbers to help better protect the sexual health of young people, a new report has urged. The report from the Women and Equalities Committee (WEC) examines the prevalence of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in young people and other high risk groups following high levels of STIs such as syphilis and gonorrhoea.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
Marking a time of international recognition and appreciation of midwives, NHS England’s chief midwifery officer (CMO) Kate Brintworth sits down with Madeleine Anderson to discuss the unique role and impact of those working in community settings.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
The government must measure the ‘true cost of inaction’ within social care or future reforms will be ‘doomed to fail’, a committee of influential MPs has warned. A new report from the Health and Social Care Committee today suggested the government lacked official data related to the social care sector and that ministers do not know what the potential monetary benefits of a reformed system might be.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
The government has been urged to publish a timeline for the introduction of a ‘fair pay agreement’ for care workers, as part of a new report examining the current state of the sector. A new report from the Health and Social Care Committee has today outlined several actions the government should take to address what has been described as a ‘broken’ social care sector.
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1 week ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
More than 1,000 GP practices in England will be given funding from the government for ‘quick fix’ estate upgrades this year. The £102m cash injection is expected to stretch across around 1,000 GP surgeries, rather than 200 as initially stated when the funding was first announced in the autumn.
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2 weeks ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
Casey Commission frames of reference in full:Phase 1 (medium term) The purpose of the first phase of the commission is to set out the plan for how to implement a national care service, a government manifesto commitment. This should report in 2026. The commission should start a national conversation about what adult social care should deliver for citizens and build consensus with the public on how best to meet the current and future needs of the population.
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2 weeks ago | 
nursinginpractice.com | Madeleine Anderson
Almost 80% of general practice nursing staff are ‘unsatisfied’ with how the government has handled general practice so far, an exclusive survey has suggested. A significant majority (78.5%) of general practice nursing staff responding to a Nursing in Practice survey said they were ‘unsatisfied’ with how the government had approached general practice since coming into power last summer.
