'Neither competition nor commissioning reform alone' can be relied upon to make the improvements needed to save the NHS from 'treacherous waters' ahead, according to a report from independent health...
Malnutrition is often unrecognised in people with diabetes but community nurses can help educate patients and alert specialists if required, writes Siobhan Hughes
Helping patients to quit smoking involves communicating in a sensitive and
client-centred manner, writes Deborah Duncan
The physical, financial and emotional burden of diabetes is carried by the entire family, not just by the person with diabetes, according to the DAWN2 global survey.
The DH has reported that the NHS achieved ?5.8 billion of savings in 2011-12, virtually all of the forecast total of ?5.9 billion. But there is consensus that service transformation, such as expanding...
A national chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) audit programme for England and Wales has been launched at the British Thoracic Society Winter meeting.
Despite the fact December is a time to 'eat, drink and be merry', each day of over-indulging can take several hours off a person's life, according to the British Medical Journal.
Nurses have been formally invited to consult on proposed changes to the GMS contract, outlined by health secretary Jeremy Hunt.
The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has warned vitamin D deficiency - thought to affect at least half the UK's white population, up to 90% of the multi-ethnic population and a...
The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), founded last week, will promote best practice across the profession, according to DH director of nursing Professor Viv Bennett.
Nearly 70 per cent of people in England have two or more habits or medical risk factors linked to life-limiting diseases; these must be tackled jointly by health professionals, rather than addressed...
District nurses could be left to pick up the pieces following 'disappointing and widespread' failures by care providers to meet the challenges posed by caring for people with complex conditions, the...
Patients requiring specialised treatment are to be promised the same level and standards of care across England, following the publication of the NHS Commissioning Board's operating model for...
Only 38 (46 per cent) of 83 newly-created Health and Wellbeing Boards with public strategies have considered the needs of dying people, the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has found.
Families with a child affected by epilepsy should receive a written individualised epilepsy plan and long-term support, write Siba Prosad Paul and Megan Eaton
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