Training more community and primary care nurses will be required to overhaul the way primary care functions, a NHS report has stated.
General practices will be awarded £55 for each diagnosis of dementia they make, NHS England has announced.
Practice and community nurses will need to provide more specialist roles to meet the demands of primary care states a report by The King's Fund.
Students applying to nursing and other healthcare courses in England will be given face to face interviews, to ensure they have the right values to work in the NHS, under a new framework released by...
Welsh NHS workers represented by Unison have voted to take strike action over pay.
An NMC spokesperson has said that a change in legislation concerning Fitness to Practice (FtP) procedures could lead to a reduction in registration fees.
Significant variations in mortality caused by lifestyle-related liver disease exist across England, according to the new Liver Disease Profiles
Ed Miliband has pledged that patients in England will wait no longer than a week for a cancer test and a further week for the results by 2020, as part of Labour's proposed Time to Care fund.
The CQC has released the 2013/14 its review the State of health care and adult social care in England, which found that general practices in the UK are broadly safe, effective, and well led, but there...
A body of knowledge is emerging on supporting cancer survivors, say Victoria Harmer and Susanne Cruickshank
The latest infectious disease to emerge is Middle East respiratory syndrome, explains Carolyn Driver
Balanitis may be an acute or chronic problem with inflammation of the glans penis and which may also involve the foreskin. Children may present with a history of a few days of itching or soreness,...
Starting a baby on a non-meat diet requires care to ensure nutritional needs are met, says Sara Patience
Vaccination's efficiency against HPV 16 and 18 does not seem to decline during long-term follow up, according to a review of 10 randomised controlled trials – encompassing 46,436 patients – and five...
Being unable to identify scents predicts the risk of dying in the next five years more strongly than heart failure, cancer or lung disease, new research shows.
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