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New tests to help diagnose asthma and a change in how medicines are offered can help people take control of their asthma, NICE says.
Changes to the rules on blood donation in England have now come into force, meaning that more people can donate blood.
British men are the most obese across Europe, leading to worries over an increase in deaths from heart disease and strokes in the UK.
New research has shown that more than 17,000 cases of scarlet fever were reported in 2016, marking its highest level in England for 50 years.
Health Minister Philip Dunne has responded to a Royal College of Nursing letter by saying that nursing staff deserve a fair pay package.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has sad that the NHS must learn from its mistakes to cut the number of baby deaths and injuries in childbirth.
NHS Digital and CCS have created a new DPS to give providers a simple and convenient access to companies that supply HSCN services.
NHS Digital has announced a £20 million project to boost its ability to support the NHS with its data security.
Paramedics could be given the power to prescribe medication in a bid to reduce thousands of unnecessary hospital visits and free up GPs.
Mental health groups say the NHS risks a 'betrayal' of patients if the £1 billion put aside for therapies and staff is delayed to plug funding gaps left by the Budget.
New figures obtained by Spurgeons Children’s Charity show that the children’s mental health crisis in England is worsening, with 60 per cent denied treatment.
The Brunel Partners Academic Centre for Health Sciences has officially launched.
Children should be given the flu vaccine before Christmas to stop them putting older relatives at risk, NHS bosses have warned.
Inexperienced junior doctors are too often being left in charge of A&E and other units, jeopardising the safety of hospital patients.
There has been a 5.6 per cent increase in the number of frontline NHS healthcare workers receiving their flu vaccine.
NHS Digital has established an additional effective and secure system to deliver essential cyber security updates across the whole NHS.
PHE is urging all men and women, aged over 60, to get screened for bowel cancer after finding a decline in the number taking the home cancer test.
'Significant doubts’ remain over the government’s ability to register millions of EU nationals for settled status in the UK, because of inadequate resourcing.
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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
Their concern rose with discovery the flame retardant paints most widely used paint along escape routes have been ones which to this day counter-productively use emission of heavy toxic gas to smother flames which rapidly spread along walls if layers of paint delaminate in a fire.
Northwich’s Victoria Infirmary (VIN) Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has enabled more patients
Adveco, the commercial hot water specialist, announces the launch of live metering of domestic ho
Sarah Greenslade, public affairs and communications officer at the British Parking Association looks at some of the problems and innovations in healthcare parking
It’s easy to assume that the comms team is there to handle press enquiries and the occasional social media storm – but the reality is that strategic communications can make a measurable impact across the entire organisation, from operational to financial, when done properly