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Weight Loss Injections – Where Are We Now?
It’s hard to ignore the growing interest in weight loss injections. Over the past year, they’ve moved from specialist clinics into everyday conversations at the pharmacy counter, GP surgery, and in private practices. Patients hear about them on morning television, see...
Designated Safeguarding Lead: Leading a Culture of Safety
Every setting that works with children needs someone at the helm of safeguarding — someone who leads with confidence, clarity, and care. That’s where the Designated Safeguarding Lead (DSL) steps in. From schools to clinics, DSLs are the people staff turn to when...
Understanding the 4T’s of Mumps
Vaccination has made huge strides in reducing once-common infections, but some diseases still find opportunities to resurface. Mumps is one of them, with clusters continuing to appear in the UK, particularly among teenagers and students where MMR uptake is incomplete....
Know Your Numbers: A UK Campaign for Hypertension Awareness
High blood pressure is not just an ‘older person problem’, it’s an issue that can affect everyone, no matter the age. Blood pressure is something most people have heard of, yet few truly understand what those numbers mean. Many people check their blood pressure simply...
Preparing for Flu Season: What to Expect from Our Flu Vaccine Workshops
As the 2025/26 flu season approaches, healthcare teams across the UK are gearing up to deliver one of the NHS’s most important annual vaccination programmes. Every year, seasonal influenza places huge demands on the health service, increasing pressures in primary...
NHS Chickenpox Vaccine Rollout: What We Need To Know
From January 2026, children across England will, for the first time, be offered a free NHS vaccination against chickenpox as part of the routine immunisation schedule. Delivered via a combined MMRV vaccine (measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella), this rollout...
Consultation Fatigue: Advice for Nurses Facing Burnout Behind the Desk
There are many aspects to nursing work and the problems we face as healthcare professionals but one part we tend not to think about are the trials and tribulations we face when it comes to desk based nursing. Whether that’s conducting face-to-face consultations,...
Same Illness, Different Age: Why Different Ages Need Different Training
An infant with fever. A teenager with fever. Same symptom, very different approach. Children are not simply smaller versions of adults, and even within paediatrics no two age groups are the same. A baby, a school-aged child and a teenager might all present with the...
Team Training Benefits: Why Team Learning Matters in Healthcare
Far too often, training in healthcare is treated as an individual checklist. Yet NHS England’s recent strategies emphasise that team training benefits go beyond compliance. They build stronger communication, increase morale, and support a safer patient experience. In...
Understanding the 4T’s of Measles
With outbreaks of vaccine-preventable disease on the rise globally, it’s more important than ever to understand the illnesses we’re protecting against. In this latest entry of our 4T’s series, we’re spotlighting measles, a highly contagious virus that remains a...
Help! I Can’t Keep Up With All These (Vaccine) Changes!
If you’re a practice nurse, healthcare support worker, pharmacist or anyone who works in immunisation, and you’re feeling a bit overwhelmed by the ever-evolving UK vaccine schedule changes… let’s just start with this: you’re absolutely not alone. Keeping up is proving...
The New NHS 10-Year Plan: Key Changes for Primary Care
The recently published "Fit for the Future: 10-Year Health Plan for England" outlines significant proposed changes for the National Health Service, with a particular focus on developments within primary care. For professionals working in this sector – including...
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