The Health and Social Care Bill has received royal assent to become law, after a troubled 14-month passage through parliament.
Emergency hospital admissions increased and patients were less likely to see their preferred nurse in areas covered by the DoH's integrated care pilots, a report has found.
Primary care and community nurses will be at the heart of a major government push to improve dementia diagnosis rates by identifying risk factors and referring those in need of assessment to memory...
Around 10 per cent of bowel cancer patients die within a month of being diagnosed, according to the National Cancer Intelligence Network (NCIN).
NHS pay could be negotiated on a regional basis, putting an end to the AfC framework, under proposals announced last week by chancellor George Osborne.
NICE is calling on nurses to have a 'no tolerance attitude' to healthcare-associated infections (HEIs) in a bid to save lives and save money.
Private company Serco is to be awarded a ?140 million contract to provide community health services to 600,000 patients in Suffolk.
Food and drink retailers including Asda, Coca-Cola and Tesco have signed up to a government scheme designed to tackle England's obesity epidemic.
Rates of stroke and kidney failure in people with diabetes have reached record levels in England, according to an analysis by Diabetes UK.
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