Sustainable investment in general practice is needed to combat high levels of childhood obesity, said the BMA.
Nurse, midwives and other healthcare professionals must be aware of their legal obligations when treating a patient who has undergone Female Genital Mutliation (FGM).
NHS pay will be restrained to a 1% annual pay increase for the next four years announced Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne today.
Midwifery services should be invested in to support women to breastfeed, a leading midwife has said, after figures released by NHS England showed that there has been a constant fall in the number of...
Plymouth Community Healthcare has been able to employ two new nurses due to an improved waste management scheme.
NHS Health Checks in North Tyneside will now take place in community centres as well as GP practices to improve uptake.
The number of items prescribed in the community has increased by over 50% since 2004, according to figures from the Health and Social Care Information Centre.
Dr Cheryll Adams, executive director of the Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), was named in the Health Service Journal's (HSJ) 2015 Clinical Leader List for the second year running.
The NHS must increase spending on community dementia services to relieve the pressures on acute services and long term care providers, a report by the Alzheimer's Society has said.
Six GP practices in Solihull are taking student nurses for placements for the first time in the region.
Nurses could learn a lot from Lucozade, writes Heather Henry. As patients have become more like consumers of health, perhaps a different nursing approach is needed?
England has become the first country in the world to begin a nationally funded MenB immunisation programme.
District and community nurses should assess the health of carers as well as patients, after ONS figures revealed that providing unpaid care negatively impacts general health.
As many as 13% of people who are told that they have Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease (COPD) may be misdiagnosed under NICE guidelines for the condition.
Provisional figures from the end of the Health Visitor Implementation Plan, which aimed to have 4200 extra health visitors in post by 2015, was missed by 215.
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