The mental and physical health of staff will be a major concern for leaders of NHS trusts as they prepare for the next phase of the covid-19 pandemic, a report has concluded. The report from the NHS Confederation, the body that represents NHS organisations, is based on interviews with 13 chief executives conducted in May and June.1 It found that trust leaders …
An evaluation of the NHS digital weight management programme shows that people who completed it lost 3.9 kg over 12 weeks. When everyone who started…
The number of adverse impacts on health related to extreme weather and climate events is continuing to rise in Europe, an EU report1 has found.…
Cardiologist Tharusha Gunawardena tells Helen Jones about his passion for Brazilian jiujitsu “I’m talking with a bit of a lisp because I got hit in…
Canadians support it, public health demands it, now policy makers must deliver it Canada’s universal healthcare system, often referred to as Medicare, provides universal, public…
NHS England is exploring ways it can reduce the amount of statutory and mandatory training that doctors undertake, to free up clinicians’ time to care…
Drug regulators in several African countries have recalled a batch of Johnson & Johnson children’s cough syrup after officials in Nigeria reported high levels of…
Ministers must do more to anticipate shortages of medicines in the UK, which have become shockingly severe and have become a “new normal” since Brexit,…
After years of underfunding, being undervalued, and issues around pay and working conditions, something finally seems to have changed for doctors. Whisper it softly, but…
The success of NHS Practitioner Health shows that the unique demands of working in healthcare merit a tailored response, says Zaid Al-Najjar “If you build…
Chronically underfunded and with hundreds of thousands of roles vacant, social care is in crisis, piling pressure on frontline services and GPs. One solution comes…
