This week, I was delighted to speak at two nursing events, writes Crystal Oldman.
When the Movember Foundation expanded the remit of its UK campaign last year to include men’s mental health issues, it shone a spotlight on an important and often overlooked issue, writes Stephen...
Two case studies show treatment options to help heavy smokers with COPD, writes Darush Attar-Zadeh.
Ethics is the starting point for good nursing practice, writes Emma Vincent.
It isn't clear that all general practices are taking training for practice nurses seriously, say leading primary care figures.
Deprivation and attitudes to school negatively impact the health of teenagers in Scotland, a report by the Scottish Government has found.
As many as 60% of women take steps to hide breastfeeding in public, while 34% of mothers say they feel embarrassed by it, a survey by Start4Life, Public Health England’s parenting advice service, has...
England needs 2600 more midwives to be able to cope with the projected annual number of births, according to the latest State of Maternity report by the Royal College of Midwives (RCM).
New ‘Ofsted-style’ ratings will be introduced next year to highlight how local areas are performing in key clinical areas health secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced.
A major effort to raise awareness of tuberculosis (TB) in London is needed to combat the condition, after a report by the London General Assembly found that some areas have higher rates than many...
As flu season returns, Mark Greener looks at the latest research on the virus and how to stop it
As a health journalist, one of my universal rules of life is to immediately discard any story which claims: ‘X is the new smoking’.
Nurses are at the heart of clinical home care provision, a white paper by healthcare provider Healthcare at Home has stated.
Chief Nursing Officer Jane Cumings is now 'content for revalidation to proceed in England from April 2016', in a letter to the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC).
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