An Epic outcome.

How one emergency department achieved a 70% rise in patients receiving life-saving sepsis treatment within an hour.

Hepatitis B vaccine shortage.

Essential facts The hepatitis B vaccine is highly effective in preventing infection if given before exposure and is also effective post-exposure. Post-exposure vaccination should start immediately, ideally within 24 hours.

Staff urge ED patients to remain active if they can.

Emergency department (ED) staff have begun a campaign to keep patients more active.

Action plan aims to boost practice nurse workforce.

A ten-point action plan to boost the general practice nursing (GPN) workforce has been published by England's chief nurse.

Nurse backs challenge to law on assisted dying.

When Alison Pickard was diagnosed with motor neurone disease (MND), she had established a nursing career that spanned five decades. Now, more than five years on from her diagnosis, she has given written evidence backing a High Court bid to challenge current legislation and make assisted dying legal.

Physical activity for pregnant women.

Essential facts The UK's chief medical officers (CMOs) have published new advice on physical exercise for pregnant women in the form of an infographic. It is aimed at providing midwives, nurses, GPs, obstetricians and gynaecologists, as well as leisure sector professionals, with the latest evidence on physical activity during pregnancy.

Healthcare innovations could save NHS billions of pounds.

Seven healthcare innovations could save the NHS £18.5 billion and the social care sector £6.3 billion in 15 years, according to the International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK).

Care home staff need training in gender identity, says report.

Health and social care professionals need better training on sexuality and gender identity issues relating to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans (LGBT) people with dementia, a report recommends.

Police assigned to protect staff at four NHS hospitals.

A police team has been assigned to protect emergency departments at four major hospitals in London.

Regulator penalises nurse who failed to start CPR.

A nurse has been reprimanded by the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) for failing to begin cardiopulmonary resuscitation (CPR) on a care home resident that he believed had already died.

NHS Improvement U-turn on 'ill-conceived' agency ban.

The RCN is celebrating a 'U-turn' over plans to prevent nurses working for an agency if they already have a substantive contract with the NHS.

'Long way to go' for high quality end of life care.

NHS England recently called on its Twitter followers to share their views about end of life care. It highlighted best practice examples in a bid to show progress on the government's six commitments to end of life care.

Hospitals should try to keep mothers and babies together.

Hospitals should reduce the number of times mothers and ill babies are separated, according to a report.

Sustainability and transformation plans: the 'biggest change ever'.

With health services continuing to feel the strain, collaboration will give nurses, doctors and other care staff 'the best chance of success', according to England's chief nursing officer Jane Cummings.

Older people who experience domestic abuse need support.

In a report called Safe Later Lives, the charity SafeLives reveals that approximately 120,000 over-65s will have experienced abuse in the past year and older victims experience abuse for twice as long as those who are younger before seeking help.

Nurse-led team is putting clinical supplies to the test.

The NHS spends £9 billion a year on clinical supplies and services. But better procurement management could lead to annual savings of up to £1 billion, according to a 2016 review of productivity in acute hospitals in England by Labour peer Lord Carter.

UK may face shortfall of 36,000 nurses by 2030.

The UK faces a potential shortage of more than 36,000 nurses by 2030, a new study has shown.

Children's hospices struggle amid funding crisis.

Funding for children's hospices and palliative care charities in England is in crisis with seriously ill children facing a postcode lottery for their care, a new report has revealed.

Apprenticeships seen as a backwards step.

The announcement of nursing degree apprenticeships has been criticised as an 'act of amnesia' by a leading nurse professor.

Enhancing acute care for older patients.

Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has piloted a scheme to enhance the care of frail and vulnerable older patients, and staff are already seeing positive results.

Proposed ban on sugary drinks in NHS hospitals.

NHS staff may not be able to buy sugary drinks in hospitals from next year, under new plans to tackle obesity among health service employees.

Substituting nurses puts lives at risk, study finds.

Replacing professionally qualified nurses with lower-skilled nursing assistants is linked to a heightened risk of patient death, a new study has shown.

HEE redefines nursing associate responsibilities.

Nursing associates will only be able to administer medicines if suitably trained and competent, in settings where it is deemed appropriate, and will be guided by employer medicines management policies, according to Health Education England (HEE).

RCN sets out timetable for ANP accreditation.

The RCN will hold weekly meetings to monitor its project to accredit advanced nurse practitioners (ANPs), which will be soft-launched this November ahead of a full launch next April.

Union demands end to pay award restriction.

The RCN has given evidence to the NHS Pay Review Body (RB), which will make recommendations on nurses' pay levels to the government for 2017/18.