RCN president Cecilia Anim is urging nurses to make their voices heard through petitions, branch activism and meetings in their workplaces.

Community nurses and GPs will spend so much time ‘firefighting’ urgent cases this winter than they may have no time for chronic disease management, one of the UK’s leading GPs has said.

A mother and son who both have epilepsy are petitioning the UK government to fund a ‘new generation’ of epilepsy nurses using money from fines of pharmaceutical companies that overcharged the NHS for epilepsy drugs.

Two mental health service providers and their staff make a strong impression on service users in a survey conducted by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).