Lisa Kenney, is a Health Protection Practitioner for Public Health England based in Kent. She is a registered Nurse and Midwife and has delivered over 100 babies.  What does your job involve? I’m part of a team that responds to notifications of infectious diseases in the county. This includes managing outbreaks of infections, attempting to […]

Rosalyyn Austin works as a Specialist Research Nurse, in Cardiology at Portsmouth Hospital NHS Trust & University of Southampton. Find out more about her role and how Rosalynn’s work will contribute to and create new knowledge in chronic heart failure.  Why I wanted to become a nurse  The pathway I followed into nursing was not […]

Amanda Naylor works closely with our Thames Valley Cancer Alliance to improve cancer care for patients. As World Cancer Day coincides with Year of the Nurse and Midwife, she tells us all about her job as a Macmillan Head and Neck Advanced Nurse Practitioner. Why I wanted to become a nurse  I was late to nursing.  […]

Duncan Burton, Chief Nurse for the NHS in the South East, explains what he does and demonstrates how fulfilling the nursing profession can be.  Why I wanted to become a nurse I wanted to be a nurse since the age of 15, because I wanted to help people and make a difference. Both my parents […]

Hundreds of lives will be spared every year in England thanks to a more sensitive cervical screening test rolled out as part of the NHS Long Term Plan. NHS experts said that there is “potential” to eliminate cervical cancer completely thanks to the change in primary test within the NHS Cervical Cancer Screening Programme, combined […]

Marion Lynch, Deputy Medical Director at NHS England and NHS Improvement South East and Leadership Consultant at NHS Leadership Academy, shares her story. Why I wanted to become a nurse You could say I come from a nursing dynasty. Five of my aunties were nurses working across the world. I saw the difference they made […]

Katie Watkins talks about her unique role as a Integrated Digital Midwife at Frimley Health NHS Foundation Trust.  Why I wanted to become a midwife Midwifery wasn’t on my radar at all when I left college. I wanted to work in London for any large corporate company and in order to do so I decided […]

Over 114,000 patients have already benefitted from referrals to highly-skilled pharmacists New ‘pharmacy first’ referral service taken up by over 10,600 pharmacies since October 2019, to relieve pressure on GPs and A+E departments Delivers on Long Term Plan aim of helping more people stay healthy in their communities Over one hundred thousand patients with minor […]

The NHS across Buckinghamshire, Oxfordshire and Berkshire West has launched a new mum & baby app – a definitive personal guide for pregnancy, birth and beyond. The app was originally developed by Chelsea and Westminster Hospital and their charity CW+ with Imagineear, and has evolved with new content led by North West London Local Maternity […]

The NHS is calling on the public to heed advice and stay at home if they have norovirus to avoid passing it on, as hospitals in England have been forced to close more than 1,100 hospital beds over the last week. Top medics are concerned about the spread of the winter vomiting bug this year […]