Healthcare assistants (HCAs) overwhelmingly back the recommendations about their role made in the Francis report into care failings in Mid Staffordshire, a survey by Independent Nurse's sister title...
The psychiatric distress from a needlestick injury is consistent with being in a car crash, researchers have concluded.
Payments made by pharmaceutical companies to nurses and health professionals will be published from 2016, as part of an EU initiative to develop more transparency in this area.
Teenagers who exercised at least 20 minutes a day found it easier to quit smoking than inactive peers, a US study suggests. Endorphins released during exercise may help control cravings.
Primary care nurses and health visitors working in the Ayrshire and Arran regions of Scotland have cited NHS bureaucracy, being short staffed and having to carry out work while off duty, as issues...
Opponents of NHS competition regulations will make a last-ditch attempt to overturn the rules on 24 April, in the House of Lords.
Nearly two thirds (63 per cent) of people with dementia feel depressed and a third report they have lost friends since their diagnosis, according to research by charity the Alzheimer's Society.
The MMR vaccination should be made mandatory in the UK, following the ongoing measles epidemic in Wales, an expert in the disease has said.
NICE's methods for assessing the costs of healthcare interventions have been described as 'insufficient' for social care because there are more differences than similarities between the two areas.
There is 'a strong association' between moderate population-wide weight change and risk of death from type 2 diabetes and cardiovascular disease (CVD) according to a paper published by bmj.com.
Patients that stop treatment with a statin because of minor adverse side effects, should be encouraged to try again, as most will be able take at least one of the drugs in the longer term, US...
Unite's general secretary Dave Prentis has acused the Government of 'taking a wrecking ball to our national health service'.
Future general practice funding could be calculated according to the percentage of patients diagnosed correctly or provided with home-based care rather than care in hospital.
The standard of epilepsy care for children in the UK is 'variable' - and despite improvements in recent years, 54 per cent of children are not seeing an epilepsy specialist nurse, according to the...
Millions more people will be protected against disease by improvements to the UK's immunisation schedule, including three vaccination programmes to protect against flu, shingles and diarrhoea.
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