News
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Letter from the Chair: Sandra Grieve (Summer 2009)
Published: 20 July 2009
Changes are afoot and this will be the last newsletter you receive through your letterbox before the Travel Health Forum is merged with four other forums to form one Public Health Forum (PHF). From October 2009 all RCN newsletters will be emailed to members.
Letter from the Editor (Summer 2009)
Published: 20 July 2009
Once again I am extremely grateful to contributors to this edition. Travel health advisers continue to travel to exciting places.
2009 Travel Health Nursing Award winners announced
Published: 20 July 2009
Congratulations to Lynda Bramham, Senior Nurse Adviser, and Shirley Bannatyne, Nurse Adviser/Clinic Manager, from the MASTA Medical Team in Leeds who have won the first-ever Nursing Standard Travel Health Nursing Award.
Important news on the Forum Transition project
Published: 20 July 2009
In 2008 RCN Council decided that RCN forums should be streamlined to create 41 stronger, more fit for purpose forums.
Bulletin Board
Published: 20 July 2009
Safer medicine supply chain?, Patients to get counterfeit warning with each prescription, HCC bows out with State of Healthcare
Expert warns health officials to tackle tick disease
Published: 20 July 2009
A leading scientist says a potentially fatal tick disease is being diagnosed in the UK and he is urging health authorities to do more to prevent the risk of cases escalating.
Lyme Disease: A clear and present danger
Published: 20 July 2009
Before embarking on a trip, travellers obviously should take health protection into account. Many opt for vaccination against diseases, generally associated with travel abroad, but few realise there is an increasing threat within the British Isles, and one that is not vaccine preventable.
Newsround
Published: 20 July 2009
Swine flu goes global, But avian flu is still out there ... And then there’s always seasonal flu
Malaria: The facts for determining good practice
Published: 20 July 2009
Report on the RCN Travel Health Forum and the British Travel Health Association Joint Conference and Exhibition, Monday 8 December 2008.
Malaria news
Published: 20 July 2009
Malaria imported to Europe from the Gambia, New HPA publication on VFRs