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The Faculty of Nursing and Midwifery at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) and leading healthcare providers Skillnet have launched a white paper on the future of home support work, which offers strategic recommendations to policymakers, educators, researchers, home support provider organisations, and home support workers to expand workforce capacity and capabilities in response to Ireland’s increasingly ageing population.

Scientists at the University of Oxford have been awarded funding from Cancer Research UK to produce a vaccine for ovarian cancer. Around 400 women are diagnosed with the disease every year in Ireland, and it is associated with significant morbidity and mortality. The experimental research will investigate the surface proteins of early-stage ovarian cancer to determine which are most strongly recognised by the immune system, and how effectively the vaccine kills ovarian cancer organoids.

The International Council of Nurses (ICN) has launched its new position statement on primary healthcare (PHC), which advocates for increased investment and development in nursing roles closer to patients’ homes, and highlights that the nursing profession is “at the forefront” of building “resilient, sustainable health systems”.