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Parents of sick babies need more paternity and maternity leave, a neonatal charity says. [...]
Researchers suggest bursts of high intensity workouts, like sprinting, are more effective for weight [...]
This helps doctors who often struggle to answer questions from patients on how they will last. [...]
Late risers have poorer attention, slower reactions and increased sleepiness, a study suggests. [...]
Nearly 330,000 A&E patients waited for more than four hours last month in England. [...]
NHS chief Simon Stevens has today challenged vehicle manufacturers to help “blue lights go green” an [...]
Scott Mitchell, the husband of acting legend Barbara Windsor, has today issued a Valentine’s Day cal [...]
Teenagers accounted for more than 1,000 admissions to hospital as a result of assaults with a knife [...]
Lung cancer scanning trucks that operate from supermarket car parks are being rolled out across the [...]
The NHS England Board meeting was broadcast live on 31 January 2019 as part of our commitment to mak [...]
What you need to do to ensure continued use of human organs, tissues and cells (including reproducti [...]
The Independent Review of the Mental Health Act 1983 has set out recommendations for government on h [...]
The government is making changes to existing secondary legislation to make it easier for the first i [...]
The Quick-frozen Foodstuffs (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 fix the inoperability of retained [...]
The Sprouts and Seeds (Amendment) (EU Exit) Regulations 2019 fix the inoperabilities of retained EU [...]
A long-standing chief executive has argued NHS trust leaders are treated too inconsistently, as thos [...]
Children’s and young people’s services at a major acute trust have been rated “inadequate” after con [...]
A review of deaths at a trust with elevated mortality rates has suggested coding issues, and not car [...]
A public health charity providing “vital” services has been forced to close this year after losing m [...]
HSJ brings you an end-of-week fix of Brexit roundup health news. [...]
The meltdown of the Royal College of Nursing last year was “traumatising” but has opened the door fo [...]
People needing urgent care were asked to pay despite qualifying for free treatmentHospitals have wro [...]
A project by fine art and fashion photographers and models with Down’s syndrome is challenging conce [...]
Number of nurses leaving the service almost triples – at a time of more than 40,000 nursing vacancie [...]
One live cornea is £2,000, a kidney £700… the illegal trade which thrives on povertyHow much is an o [...]
The broadcaster did viewers a disservice in refusing to offer information over a Call the Midwife pl [...]
The National Institute for Health and Care Excellence welcomes this important comment on our approac [...]
“In Manchester we’re probably a little bit ahead of the descriptions around primary care networks th [...]
It’s winter, so where’s the winter meltdown?This year the traditional lament has fallen silent. Ther [...]
Very few UK patients have gained access to previously illegal cannabis based medicinal products sinc [...]
Johnson and Johnson will give pricing information for its most prescribed drug, the anticoagulant ri [...]
A new pilot scheme encouraging people with diabetes to self-manage their condition using an interact [...]
The average daily rates received by locums have risen in most parts of the country over the past 12 [...]
GPs could help to speed up diagnosis of patients with colorectal cancer and other serious bowel dise [...]
The government's independent review of the partnership model should ensure there is increased f [...]
Dame Clare Marx has been named as the new chair of the GMC - the first woman in history to hold the [...]
A combination of Merck & Co's immunotherapy Keytruda and Pfizer Inc's Inlyta helped pa [...]
Only half of France's farmland could do without glyphosate-based weed-killers by 2021, the coun [...]
Indonesia will push back by as much as seven years an October deadline for halal labels on food, dru [...]
The U.S. Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) on Friday proposed coverage of expensive [...]
Nektar Therapeutics said on Friday some patients with advanced bladder cancer treated with a combina [...]