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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.

Opioid addiction fuelled by painkillers

Opioid addiction, fuelled by OTC medication and prescription pain killers, has reached epidemic  proportions in the US but is becoming a growing problem in the...
Opioid addiction fuelled by painkillers

Easter egg choking hazards

The countdown to the fun of the annual Easter egg hunt has begun and children across the country are getting ready for the excitement of...
Easter egg choking hazards

Don’t cut vitamin D doses

NHS cuts to prescriptions of vitamin D maintenance doses would hit high risk groups, warns National Osteoporosis Society. People needing vitamin D to maintain strong...
Don’t cut vitamin D doses

Nurses have needs too

Nurses often sacrifice their own needs to care for others, and this is right and good and expected. Nursing is a profession of selflessness where...
Nurses have needs too

Muddled memories help dementia patients

Should we always challenge the distorted beliefs of someone with dementia or do inaccurate memories play an important role in helping them to retain key...
Muddled memories help dementia patients

Earlier diagnosis for ovarian cancer

Early diagnosis is a major focus of the work of Target Ovarian Cancer and we take a three-pronged approach to try and ensure that more...
Earlier diagnosis for ovarian cancer

Medicine and Me – Your Mental Health

The RSM's meeting, Medicine and Me - Your Mental Health, which took place over the weekend in London, was really an opportunity for doctors and...
Medicine and Me – Your Mental Health