...encourage dentists to spend a greater proportion of their time delivering NHS care. Take advantage of EU Exit freedoms to explore reducing nurse clinical placement hours and support education institutions...
*Updated 2 February 2024* Obesity costs the NHS around £6.5 billion a year and is the second biggest preventable cause of cancer. Over one in four (26%) adults and 23.4%...
...take at least two weeks in younger people and at least three weeks in older people before you can expect to have a good antibody response. Even then, you must...
Patients Summary Our health system is in crisis. If we don’t act now, we risk the NHS ceasing to exist as a publicly funded service, free at the point of...
...interval between doses as recommended by JCVI in January 2021. However, we now know that two doses of vaccine are very much better than one dose for protection against infection...
...evidence from government, employers and unions. Different conclusions between PRBs reflect the specific circumstances of each workforce. Following last year's 5.5% award, we are accepting the recommendations of the NHSPRB...
...conditions. What is being published? In 2024, a working group made up of government, NHS, clinicians, pharmacists, and industry identified a number of health conditions and medicine categories where more...
THE FACTS There is no evidence that taking paracetamol during pregnancy causes autism in children. A major study conducted in Sweden in 2024, involving 2.4 million children found no evidence...
...health service has at least an extra 60,000 doctors, 170,000 more nurses and 71,000 more allied health professionals in place by 2036/37. Do other countries have similar roles? The Physician...
The government has met its target of recruiting 26,000 additional primary care professionals – one year ahead of the March 2024 deadline. Data published today by NHS England shows...
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