FMG course to better prepare health and social care professionals
A new FMG course to help health and social care workers understand the many impacts of female genital mutilation (FGM) has been launched by FutureLearn...
NHS
The NHS category focuses on the people, policies and challenges shaping the UK’s publicly funded health service. It offers thoughtful analysis of organisational change, workforce issues, funding and performance, along with debate on how to improve care delivery and health outcomes. From insights into frontline practice to discussion of strategic priorities and reforms, this category brings clarity to the complex forces influencing the future of health and care in the NHS.
More than 70% of NHS workers considered quitting in last 6 months
More than seventy percent of NHS workers considering quitting in last six months, GNB survey reveals. Stress, pay, workload and mental health main reasons GMB Union members cited...
Rutherford offers NHS not-for-profit cancer services
Rutherford Health plc, a leading independent provider of advanced cancer care in the UK, today announced it has offered its treatment and diagnostic services to...
More people attending online GP appointments
People are more likely to attend online GP appointments than in person, review finds: A review published in the journal BJGP Open by researchers from the...
Research reveals ‘ugly truth’ responding to Covid-19
Research reveals 'ugly truth' faced by doctors responding to Covid-19 on the frontline: A new study from The University of Bath's Jo Daniels and Sophie...
Kindness is the best medicine for grief
Kindness is the best medicine when someone is grieving", Ken Sazuze says one year after the launch of HWF's Families Programme: It's been one year...
A&E patients: Mounting safety crisis
Nearly two thirds of A&Es across the UK had ambulances waiting to transfer patients every day in the past week, according to a new survey...
Harm to patients from ambulance handover delays
Commenting on a new report published by the Association of Ambulance Chief Executives into handover delays at hospital emergency departments across England, Matthew Taylor, chief...
Stressed out Midwives turning to substance abuse
Stressed out Midwives turning to substance abuse: A Coventry University academic wants more support for midwives after a survey revealed more than a quarter of...
Ambulance service faces an ‘utterly unprecedented crisis’ this winter
Unless rapid and serious action is taken this winter the problems may become insurmountable, ambulance workers tell Secretary of State. The ambulance service faces an 'utterly...
