Nursing times
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The recent Men's Health Week has brought the issue of men's health back to the forefront of the health provision agenda, but historically men's health has compared badly to that of women. This article examines what nurses can do to improve men's health.
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This article outlines the report Turning the Corner: Improving Diabetes Care on the progress made since the launch of the National Service Framework for Diabetes. It highlights some of the challenges still to be met and provides up-to-date information on prevalence and treatment levels.
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Nurses are in an ideal position to use their clinical observations to highlight unmet needs in relation to device use. This paper explores issues that relate to medical devices. An overview is given of the medical device field and examples are given from a survey of the healthcare literature to determine the level of user involvement in device development.
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In a report published in 2005 the Inspectorate of Prisons explored the fact that many black and minority ethnic (BME) prisoners have poor perceptions of their treatment in all areas of prison life. It also attempted to identify barriers that still exist to delivering race equality in prisons and examined the extent to which prison healthcare departments are providing a racially aware health service that assesses and meets individual needs.