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The recently announced Labour Party policy that, if elected, would support nurse practitioners (NPs) and general practitioners to buy into existing primary care practices or establish new ones by providing no- or low-interest loans to NPs and GPs is an excellent initiative.

The recent Government decision meaning new patients seeking treatment for gender dysphoria or incongruence can no longer be prescribed gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) analogues is troubling.

Nurses and their representative bodies have an clear ethical and moral obligation to advocate against these atrocities, not only because of the killing of nurses and other healthcare workers by the Israeli military, but also due to all atrocities being committed against the people of Gaza and the occupied West Bank.

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