News focus - Professor Viv Bennett is the UK's first ever director of nursing within the Department of Health. Chris Parr meets her
The Scottish government is facing calls to review its policy offering free personal care to people in their own homes after the cost of the scheme rose by 157 per cent in the last seven years. The...
The DH is keeping 'a close eye' on how many jobs have been created to accommodate more than a thousand health visitors expected to qualify this month, amid concerns there will not be sufficient posts...
More than three quarters of practice nurses do not feel engaged with the work of their clinical commissioning group (CCG), an Independent Nurse survey has found.
Around 80,000 nurses have put their name to a petition calling on the NMC to reverse plans to increase its registration fee from ?76 to ?120 - a rise of almost 60 per cent.
The rule requiring CCGs to recruit their lead nurse board member from outside the local area could be relaxed if groups struggle to find a suitable candidate, the NHS Commissioning Board Authority...
Ministers are expected to rethink social care policy proposals, announced last month, and to introduce a cap on the amount of money elderly people are expected to pay towards the cost of their social...
The NHS would need around 7,000 fewer emergency hospital beds if all areas of England achieved the same rate of admission and average length of stay for over 65s as those with the lowest use,...
When the independent Children and Young People's Health Outcomes Forum was established in January, its work was billed by the DH as a genuine chance to improve the availability and quality of...
Diabetes prescriptions given to primary care patients in England topped 40 million for the first time last year, following a 50 per cent increase in six years.
Increasing alcohol specialist nurse services across England could help prevent hospital admissions resulting from alcohol misuse, an influential group of MPs has said.
The UK's most senior public health nurse has called on primary care and community nurses to capitalise on the success of the Olympic and Paralympic Games.
The Children's Food Campaign is calling on the International Olympic Committee (IOC) to take a tougher stance on the food and drink companies it allows to sponsor the Olympics.
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