Pregnant women will be offered whooping cough (pertussis) vaccinations to protect their babies, following a rise in deaths among infants, Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has...
National clinical stroke guidelines issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recommends all patients, regardless of age or severity of stroke, should be considered for thrombolysis.
More than a third of PCTs in England fail to commission specialist services for ME or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients, or cannot confirm that they do, according to charity Action for ME. It...
The number of people with diabetes in Britain is expected to rise by 700,000 by the end of the decade, according to Diabetes UK.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has called for teenagers to be vaccinated against pertussis in the wake of the ongoing whooping cough outbreak.
Nurses across the south west of England could face dismissal if they refuse to agree to locally set pay and conditions, under plans being considered by 20 trusts across the region.
The Queen's Nursing Institute (QNI) has appointed Crystal Oldman as director, following the departure of Rosemary Cook in July.
The Olympic polyclinic is to be named after Sir Ludwig Guttmann, the pioneering neurosurgeon who organised the first 'Stoke Mandeville Games' to coincide with the London Olympics in 1948.
GPs and consultants are limiting advanced nurses' ability to refer patients to other services, according to the largest survey of the profession in six years.
Hospital services must be redesigned and reorganised and out-of-hours access to primary care improved, to avoid demand overwhelming acute care, the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has urged.
An e-guide for commissioners and providers of asthma services, setting out the 15 key aspects of care that characterise good asthma services, could save lives and reduce the high cost of medication...
The NHS must comply with NICE guidance on new drugs and treatments or explain to patients why there is a delay, under a DH scheme to be implemented 'by the autumn'.
Incoming health secretary Jeremy Hunt has been urged by nurses' leaders to avoid making the 'mistakes' of his predecessor Andrew Lansley and ensure he listens to nurses' views.
The care and support patients receive from community mental health services needs to improve, especially in areas such as 'help with physical health and day-to-day living' according to a the results...
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