Public Health England and NHS Test and Trace will be unified to establish a new organisation focused on public health protection and infectious disease capability, the Government has announced
The Office for National Statistics will significantly expand its infection survey to 400,000 people in England, making it the country’s largest study tracking COVID-19 in the general population
People requiring support for their mental health are at risk of not getting the care they need and their conditions deteriorating due to increased demand brought about by the coronavirus pandemic, a...
Screening women for breast cancer from their 40s rather than their 50s could save lives without adding to the diagnosis of harmless cancers, a study published in the Lancet Oncology has suggested
The UK government has signed deals for a further 90 million doses of coronavirus vaccine
While funding to increase apprenticeships to 2000 per year is welcome, the Government must do more to achieve the 50,000 new nursing staff promised by the Prime Minister, the Royal College of Nursing...
Ruth May, chief nursing officer for England, has urged those receiving their A-Level results tomorrow to join the thousands of their peers who have already applied to study nursing this year
The first online Annual General Meeting (AGM) of the RCN was held on 6 August, with almost 800 members discussing key issues affecting the nursing workforce
The UK’s largest testing programme for coronavirus has shown that the virus continued to decline in June
Millions of new rapid coronavirus tests will be rolled out across NHS hospitals, care homes and labs in preparation for the coming winter
The NHS is recruiting social prescribing link workers to combat loneliness and isolation fuelled by coronavirus
The government has ‘acted too slowly and did not do enough to support social care users and staff’, according to new analysis from the Health Foundation
Registered health and care professionals travelling to the UK from high-risk countries will be required to self-isolate for 14 days, the government has announced
Two in five people in the UK back an immediate pay rise for NHS staff, while over two thirds are supportive of a pay rise happening this calendar year, a new poll has found
A new package of measures and a 'Better Health' campaign have been announced to help people lose weight amid the COVID-19 pandemic
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