The recent US outbreak of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome may spark questions from patients in travel consultations, writes Deborah Duncan
The Liberal Democrats have voted overwhelmingly to halt any expansion of regional pay in the public sector.
The proposal floated by NHS Employers that pay for health service employees should be frozen for a third year running was branded as 'a disgraceful attack on hard working staff' by trade union Unite.
The government regards the NHS as just another industry like gas or electricity when it should be seen as 'the pride of the nation', Labour leader Ed Milliband has said.
Recruitment and retention of nurses should be health ministers' priority, say nurses' leaders, following NHS figures revealing a significant drop in the number of frontline staff.
A total of ?1.5 million has been pledged by ministers to support a potential roll-out of personal health budgets, which are designed to help individuals choose the most appropriate care for...
NHS organisations throughout England are set to receive support from NHS Employers' flu fighter campaign, which aims to increase the number of frontline staff receiving flu vaccinations - protecting...
Enterprising primary care and community care nurses have developed a range of 'socially innovative' initiatives, which could improve patient care and shave millions of pounds from the NHS spend.
Delayed transfers of care between health and social services cost the NHS ?545,000 a day, equating to approximately ?200 million a year, the NHS Confederation has warned.
Pregnant women will be offered whooping cough (pertussis) vaccinations to protect their babies, following a rise in deaths among infants, Chief Medical Officer Professor Dame Sally Davies has...
National clinical stroke guidelines issued by the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) recommends all patients, regardless of age or severity of stroke, should be considered for thrombolysis.
More than a third of PCTs in England fail to commission specialist services for ME or chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) patients, or cannot confirm that they do, according to charity Action for ME. It...
The number of people with diabetes in Britain is expected to rise by 700,000 by the end of the decade, according to Diabetes UK.
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has called for teenagers to be vaccinated against pertussis in the wake of the ongoing whooping cough outbreak.
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