High-caffeine energy drinks are to be banned for under-16s to help improve children’s health, under new government proposals. Around 100,000 children consume at least one high caffeine energy drink every day, according to the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). This is around one third of children aged 13-16 years, and nearly a quarter... Read more The post Government to ban high-caffeine energy drinks for under-16s appeared first on Nursing in Practice.| Nursing in Practice
Almost a fifth of children in England who turned five in the 12 months to April 2025 did not receive their pre-school booster jab| Nursing in Practice
St.Emlyn's - Emergency Medicine #FOAMed Can children with abdominal pain, vomiting, or tenderness avoid CT? We review PECARN's latest insights into low-risk paediatric trauma. The post Evaluating the PECARN Abdominal Trauma Rule in the grey zone…. appeared first on St.Emlyn's.| St.Emlyn's
NHS England is set to ‘test’ using health visitors to administer childhood flu vaccinations and other routine immunisations.| Nursing in Practice
Children born to mothers with a BMI of 35 or over are at an increased risk of being admitted to hospital with an infection, a new study shows.| Nursing in Practice
Health visitors are facing ‘unmanageable’ caseloads with services at risk of ‘falling off a cliff’ without immediate action| Nursing in Practice
The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) and other leading health organisations have written to the foreign secretary to demand action| Nursing in Practice
Welcome back to the pre-Xmas edition of the Broomedocs & First10EM Journal club. This month we cover a few out-of-hospital arrest trials. More PECARN| Broome Docs
Welcome to a special edition of the Journal Club with Justin. This month we recorded live with a bunch of fantastic Broome junior doctors. Justin| Broome Docs
Welcome to the first episode for 2024 - and we have a range of papers covering the big life threatening issues to the tiniest pinky finger injuries and a| Broome Docs