Measles – catching your death

To mark World Immunisation Week, and in view of rapidly increasing numbers of cases of measles, our guide to this highly contagious, vaccine-preventable and potentially fatal disease is timely and essential reading for GPNs involved both in childhood immunisations and travel health
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Reducing cardiovascular risk: latest recommendations

Many patients who might benefit significantly from lipid-lowering therapy are not being treated at all, so the latest NICE guideline aims to increase the numbers of patients who are offered a statin to reduce their risk of cardiovascular events
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• Understanding the role of GPNs in heart failure
• Public satisfaction with NHS at all-time low
• GPNs excluded from one-off payments to healthcare staff
• New evidence for exodus of qualified nurses
• Continuity of care would reduce practice workload
• Poor asthma control linked to 8-fold higher greenhouse gas emissions
• Umbrella review confirms health risks of UPF
• New contract risks practice nurse job losses
• Potential for confusion, unsafe care and exploitation over nursing associates
• New roles in general practice do not address workload and disadvantage GPNs

Using mucolytics in the management of COPD symptoms

Sputum production is a common feature of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD), but for some patients, it is difficult to clear, leaving them potentially vulnerable to respiratory infections.

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Diagnosis of heart failure

Heart failure is the leading cause of hospitalisations in the over 65s and has a high prevalence in patients attending for regular review of long term illnesses such as diabetes, hypertension and chronic kidney disease (CKD). General practice nurses play a vital role in the management of patients with long term conditions, and are therefore in an ideal position to identify the early signs and symptoms of heart failure in patients that are most at risk of developing this condition.

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• Bite-sized learning:Understanding Familial Hypercholesterolemia
• Reducing cardiovascular risk: latest recommendations
• COPD: the GOLD 2024 report
• Optimising the nutritional status of patients with COPD
• Allergic disease:diagnosis and management for general practice
• Measles – catching your death

1 Feb 2024

Practice Nurse Bite-Sized Learning: Understanding hypertriglyceridemia Travel health update New lipid targets at odds with international standards Telephone triage in primary care Independent Nurse – how does that work? Urgent need to put primary care at core of NHS   What links Cardiovascular-Renal-Metabolic conditions? Identifying and managing patients with bronchiectasis

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22 Nov 2023

Practice Nurse Bite-Sized Learning: Hypertension Holistic care for patients with a cancer diagnosis   Improving asthma care for children and young people Raising awareness of lung cancer in never-smokers Travel health update Mitigating risk – dealing with the ‘rookie factor’ in practice nursing Chronic Kidney Disease: diagnosis and management for general practice nurses

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18 Oct 2023

Bedwetting: A guide for practice nurses Spirometry – moving forward towards early and accurate diagnosis Practice Nurse Bite-Sized LearningUnderstanding Atrial Fibrillation Practice Nurse Quick Guide – Diagnosing heart failure Why practice nurses need to know about ultra-processed foods Travel health update Anti-inflammatory reliever therapy for asthma: putting evidence into practice

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23 Aug 2023

Travel health update 6% uplift to GP contract to fund pay awards for practice nurses How medical technology can enhance patient self-management in wound care Latest announcements on COVID boosters and seasonal flu vaccinations Lipid management for primary care Potential implications of monoclonal antibodies in primary care Nursing associates in general practice

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