From today, babies aged 2 months will be given the vaccine for MenB, followed by an additional dose at 4 months, and a booster at 12 to 13 months, along with routine vaccinations for other conditions.
Primary care staff are key to ensuring that patients with type 1 and 2 diabetes have their feet checked for ulcers and other complications, after a report found that a large number of patients do not...
Northern, Eastern and Western Devon (NEW Devon) CCG did not breach rules around procuring community services, an investigation by Monitor has concluded.
Burton Hospitals Foundation Trust has launched a drive to recruit more nurses into its two community hospitals and sole acute setting.
Less than half of Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) provide outpatient appointments for neurology patients according to a report by Public Health England.
Leg ulceration affects between 0.6% and 3.6% of the population, with 28–85% of ulcers owing to venous insufficiency.
Pollution is one of the most detrimental factors to public health, writes Mark Greener
The Best Practice in Nursing conference, which focuses on primary care, will be held on 21 and 22 October at the Birmingham NEC.
From April 2016 the only way midwives and nurses will be able to renew their registration with the Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) will be through a process called revalidation, the purpose of...
Cardiovascular disease leads to the death of a significantly higher proportion of women in Europe than men, according to a study published in the European Heart Journal.
Increasing education of diabetes is a key message in a series of updated diabetes guidelines released by NICE in order to tackle the growing number of people in the UK with diabetes.
The incoming revalidation process has 'enormous potential as a force for good', a leading nursing figure has said.
Graham White answers a question on how to keep CPD up to date.
Measuring blood levels of two biomarkers - asymmetric dimethylarginine (ADMA) and homocysteine - might detect women at high risk of developing pre-eclampsia.
Poor adherence to certain cardioprotective drugs – including aspirin and statins – 'is associated with a marked risk increase in all-cause mortality' among people who survived acute myocardial...
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