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Racism and the NHS

20 October 2004

Nursing Standard

Analysis

Depending who you ask, the health service is either institutionally racist or the most friendly and diverse place to work in the UK. Nursing Standard’s diversity...

DH praise for home chemotherapy patient services may lead to pilot projects across England and Wales

01 November 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

A nurse-led service that helps bladder cancer patients receive chemotherapy in their own homes could be rolled out throughout England and Wales.

Cancer leads need to make services as ‘appealing’ and ‘efficient’ as possible

01 December 2006

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Cancer nurses need to embrace change and concentrate on quality of services, according to England’s chief nursing officer Chris Beasley.

Approachable services for all

01 July 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Editorial

In the busy world we live in it must seem frustrating, if not impossible, to think of new ways of potentially creating more work for ourselves. But we also know that...

Assessment for families with cancer history

01 July 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Further genetic screening services are needed to offer risk assessments to people with a family history of cancer.

Rising to different challenges

01 April 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Editorial

Every cancer nurse should strive to tailor services in order to meet every individual’s needs.

A death ‘every hour’ from prostate cancer

01 April 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Cancer nurses and charities have helped to raise the profile of prostate cancer to ensure men realise that it is the cancer that is most likely to affect them.

New pilot schemes set to improve the face of palliative care in hospice and at home

01 March 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Cancer patients will be given more choice over where they are cared for and die under two new pilot schemes due to be launched next month.

Proving nurses are crucial to the patient experience

01 March 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

Editorial

It is always frustrating when you work a long, hard day and no-one seems to recognise the effort you’ve put in.

Binge drinking doubles risk of breast cancer

01 May 2007

Cancer Nursing Practice

News

Nurses who binge-drink at weekends almost double their risk of developing breast cancer, research involving almost 18,000 nurses has revealed.