January 2024

Nursing Times in January 2024 is packed with great clinical articles, news and features, views and opinion, to get you started for the year.

We have a new clinical series looking at type 1 diabetes, while our major clinical series on pregnancy continues with part 5. We also have research on how mental health can affect physical health, the benefits of restorative clinical supervision for student retention and an innovative mobile cancer unit.  

Our 2023 Nurse of the Year, Eric Teague-Hellon, has spoken to Nursing Times about his career, challenges and achievements. In addition, Northern Ireland’s chief nursing officer, Maria McIlgorm, explains the current situation with pay while outlining her workforce ambitions.

Meanwhile, Nursing Times student editor Ellie Sims puts the case for why newly registered nurses who want to work in community settings need not spend time on wards first, while regular columnist Helené Donnelly calls on the profession to stop referring to those on placement as ‘the student’.

Last but not least, our Step Back in Time column reaches back 100 years to 1924, when the regulation of nurses was still in its infancy.