We are three years since the General Practice Nurse Student and Nurse Network (GPNSNN) was created to support the delivery of the GPN 10-point plan with funding from NHS England. The super shiny team of ambassadors are now going from…
Empire Windrush, Image via Jamaicans.com On the 22nd June 1948 a ship called the Empire Windrush set sail from Jamaica to dock at Tilbury, Essex. This was the first ship marking the arrivals, mainly from Jamaica, to the UK. The…
As a practice nurse working in West Kent, I have been passionate about promoting the benefits of physical activity (PA) to my colleagues and patients. I have been working for Public Health England as a PA Clinical Champion (PACC) delivering…
In September 2020 I started a secondment to Transforming Cancer Services Team (TCST) for London as Primary Care Lead Nurse. TCST is part of the Healthy London Partnership and supports London’s CCGs and the NHS England regional team to deliver…
Julie Roye is joint facilitator of the GPN BME Network with Robana Hussein-Mills. Here she writes about the new network and invites you to join. This blog was originally published on the NHS Joint Collaboration Platform. Welcome to our first…
‘I have been a nurse for 21 years and this year I am proud to have been awarded the title of Queen’s Nurse. I trained in Yorkshire before moving to Canada and working as both a surgical and ER nurse…
Nurse Practitioner Carol Sears writes about how her Practice adapted to the Pandemic Arriving home from New Zealand at the end of February after a wonderful four-week holiday visiting our daughter we were of the general concern about the ‘flu’…
Queen’s Nurse Kim Ball writes about the career that opened up to her once she became a General Practice Nurse. General practice nursing as a career is hugely understated; throughout my nurse training the ethos was that newly qualified nurses…
Queen's Nurse Nina Tidey talks about her experience of Test and Trace during the Covid-19 pandemic I first heard of the Test and Trace clinical contact tracer role and Covid-19 clinical advisor role via the return to NHS scheme. My…
Do General Practice Nurses have a leading role to play in dementia care? If so, what should it look like and will it work for patients, their families and General Practice in terms of being sustainable and transferable? Personal issues,…
