The Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has warned vitamin D deficiency - thought to affect at least half the UK's white population, up to 90% of the multi-ethnic population and a...
The Institute of Health Visiting (iHV), founded last week, will promote best practice across the profession, according to DH director of nursing Professor Viv Bennett.
Nearly 70 per cent of people in England have two or more habits or medical risk factors linked to life-limiting diseases; these must be tackled jointly by health professionals, rather than addressed...
District nurses could be left to pick up the pieces following 'disappointing and widespread' failures by care providers to meet the challenges posed by caring for people with complex conditions, the...
Patients requiring specialised treatment are to be promised the same level and standards of care across England, following the publication of the NHS Commissioning Board's operating model for...
Only 38 (46 per cent) of 83 newly-created Health and Wellbeing Boards with public strategies have considered the needs of dying people, the National Council for Palliative Care (NCPC) has found.
Families with a child affected by epilepsy should receive a written individualised epilepsy plan and long-term support, write Siba Prosad Paul and Megan Eaton
A detailed risk assessment is essential to giving good travel health advice. Margaret Umeed works step-by-step through a risk assessment process
Skilled nursing staff must be retained by local authorities during the transition from NHS to local authority health planning, according to RCN general secretary Dr Peter Carter.
NICE has published a pathway which sets out how local communities can work together to prevent overweight and obesity, with support from local organisations and networks.
The chief nursing officer and director of nursing have published a three-year vision and strategy for nursing, midwifery and care staff that aims to build the culture of compassionate care in all...
There are significant variations in the quality of primary care in London, according to a new report commissioned by NHS London from The King's Fund and Imperial College London.
The Government has been urged to take urgent action to improve management for rheumatoid arthritis patient after a report has revealed 80% of people with rheumatoid arthritis suffer from one or more...
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