Some NHS trusts and boards are basing midwifery staffing levels on what they can afford, not women and baby’s needs, due to chronic underfunding, the Royal College of Midwives has said
The Chancellor must take ‘urgent’ action to prevent nurses being forced off the road by rising petrol prices, the RCN have said
The NHS is providing care to 21 Ukrainian children who have been brought to England to escape the Russian invasion of the eastern European country
With the best will in the world, COVID-19 would still have hit the UK hard, but had we started with a better health infrastructure, and had the Government acted more decisively, would we still have...
Referrals for specialist NHS mental health care reached a record high in England by the end of 2021, data released by NHS Digital shows
The Department for Health and Social Care has ‘overseen years of decline in the NHS’s cancer and elective care waiting time performance,’ a report by the Parliamentary Public Accounts Committee has...
Kathy Oxtoby reports on the impact of burnout on general practice and community nurses
Folashade Yusuf-Adewuyi is one of the first nursing associate apprentices to qualify from the Open University
Mark Greener looks how our understanding of the coronavirus has evolved over the pandemic
Around 40% of patients with pancreatic cancer are not being prescribed medicine described as ‘life-changing’, research by Pancreatic Cancer UK has found
Describing the attack as ‘profoundly shocking’, Dr Pamela Cipriano, ICN President said: ‘It is unacceptable that innocent people, including children and pregnant women, have been targeted in this...
Mark Greener looks at the latest efforts to improve outcomes in women’s cancers
David Morris explains how diabetic patients can be treated if they experience this common problem
The RCN has set out its UK pay position for 2022-23, warning ministers that they must rethink current pay plan or risk staff losses that erode safe care standards
A new initiative to improve the introduction of solid food into babies’ diets at six months has been launched by the Department of Health and Social Care
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