New ways of working releasing general practitioner capacity with pharmacy prescribing support: a cost-consequence analysis.

Background: General practice in the United Kingdom is experiencing a workforce crisis. Greater multidisciplinary working, including more general practice pharmacists, is seen as part of the solution. However, it is unknown what impact and cost-consequences that pharmacists may have in freeing general practitioner (GP) capacity.

Theory of Nursing for the Whole Person: A Distinctly Scriptural Framework.

Though unpublished in peer-reviewed literature for more than 40 years, the Theory of Nursing for the Whole Person has been, and remains, a highly useful framework for nursing practice, education, and research. Used by the College of Nursing at Oral Roberts University, the theory was developed by the founding dean, I. Tomine Tjelta.

Linking poverty and ill health.

Audrey Thompson assesses the links between poverty and ill health by exploring the experiences of key nurses caring for people in the community.

Scare tactics don't work.

Breast cancer is the number one cancer killer of women in Britain, killing between 13 and 15,000 women every year. Such facts should be enough to have women seeking out breast screening clinics in droves. Scare tactics alone are not working - especially, it seems, among ethnic minorities.