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Nurse requested X-rays in A&E department

01 February 2004

Emergency Nurse

Clinical

Shortening waiting times in A&E departments is high on the government agenda. This is highlighted in documents such as The NHS Plan (Department of Health 2000) and...

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09 December 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

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This month we focus on websites giving information on neonatal investigations

Interventions needed to help families with inherited conditions

08 July 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

The authors comment that this is the first intervention for facilitating better communication for families affected by, or at risk of, inherited genetic conditions...

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09 May 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

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The under-18 conception rate in the UK for 2013 is the lowest since 1969. Despite this, the UK remains among the top five in the EU in terms of live births to women...

Research digest

01 September 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

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This month’s digest looks at communication difficulties around newborn screening for cystic fibrosis

Information provision reduces parental anxiety

06 February 2017

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

Parents find the delivery of positive newborn screening results distressing, in large part due to information provision at time of screening and when the results are...

Quality of newborn screening information needs to improve

01 October 2013

Nursing Children and Young People

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Although the advantages of newborn screening and the NHS sickle cell and thalassaemia screening programme in the UK has been well-documented (Farrell et al 2011),...

Evidence suggests information is withheld for a number of reasons

09 September 2014

Nursing Children and Young People

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The advantages of the newborn screening (NBS) programme in the UK are well documented (Farrell et al 2011), but screening identifies carriers of these conditions for...

Vital to explore any potential or actual psychosocial consequences

09 July 2015

Nursing Children and Young People

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This study was conducted in the US, so it may not be possible to extrapolate data directly to the UK since the development of each country’s New Born Screening (NBS)...

Sickle cell and cystic fibrosis carrier results

07 October 2016

Nursing Children and Young People

Evidence & practice

Background Newborn screening (NBS) is used to identify pre-symptomatic babies who carry, or are affected by, genetic or congenital conditions (UK Newborn Screening...

07 March 2024 / Vol 36 issue 2

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