More than 1,000 extra health visitors have been recruited over the past two years, according to workforce figures, suggesting the government is making headway in its pledge to have an extra 4,200...
A practice nurse development programme piloted in Tower Hamlets could become a model for speedy, tailored training that boosts competencies and specialist knowledge.
General practices will have to ensure all young adults starting university are offered a booster dose of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate (MenC) vaccine as part of a catch-up campaign.
Better use of anonymised patient information will help commissioners improve the quality, efficiency, and equity of healthcare services, NHS England has pledged.
Diabetes patients in the UK have worse access to insulin pump therapy than patients in other European countries, according to Diabetes UK and the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Use of copper for door handles, taps and other surfaces, could prevent the spread of norovirus, research from the University of Southampton suggests.
The DH has pledged £4 million in funding to improve the way diseases are diagnosed, in a bid to improve patient care.
Local authorities (LAs) and clinical commissioning groups should work together to ensure GP practices are aware of local obesity prevention and treatment initiatives.
A passport for people in care home settings how have diabetes has been launched to provide carers with vital information about resident' diabetes needs.
NHS chief executive Sir David Nicholson is to leave his £211,000- a-year position in March 2014 after six years in the role and 35 years working for the NHS; he will retire with a £1.9 million...
Practice nurses and health visitors have a perceived low level of knowledge about rotavirus disease and a lack of confidence about administering the vaccine, according to GlaxoSmithKline (GSK).
The numbers of district nurses being trained are nowhere near the 'replacement level' required to maintain the district nursing workforce, which has shrunk rapidly over the past 10 years as...
Health bodies have joined forces to reiterate the case for moving care from hospitals to community services.
COPD patients must
be educated about how
to identify and manage
exacerbations, writes
Beverley Bostock-Cox
Scalp conditions that may present in primary care include male pattern baldness, psoriasis of the scalp and squamous cell carcinoma , writes Dr Jean Watkins
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