The Government will not appoint a new disabilities minister until after the Brexit crisis has been resolved, the Tories vice-chairman has said.

Slimming World welcomes the publication of Cancer Research UK’s report Paying the price: new evidence on the link between price promotions, purchasing of less healthy food and drink, and overweight and obesity in Great Britain.

Compassion in Dying responds to the Court of Protection judgment on the case of Mrs Rushton, which was made public yesterday (26 March 2019):

The Government is being accused of driving a staff retention crisis as more than 200,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010, a new analysis from Labour has found.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published data showing the prevalence of mental health problems among young people in England. The numbers suggest that certain groups of are at greater risk of developing a mental health problem in childhood and adolescence, including people who live in social housing, those whose parents have a mental health problem and those whose families need support from benefits.

Waiting times set a patients’ expectation for when they should begin treatment, but they do nothing to inform a comprehensive treatment programme. President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Professor Ravi Mahajan, says the quality of care should not be measured by time based targets alone, but also include post-operative outcomes and the quality of life after surgery.

Hft, a charity supporting adults with learning disabilities, has responded to a consultation by the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care by calling for information to be consistently provided in accessible formats.

Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Inclusive Society, Brendan O’Hara, writes following his Westminster Hall debate this week on the effect of leaving the European Union on the UK's health and social care sector. 

Dignity in Dying responds to the news that the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) will drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying and adopt a ‘neutral’ position, following the UK’s largest every survey of medical opinion on this issue.

Research from Mind reveals that emergency services staff and volunteers are over twice as likely to say that their service encouraged them to talk about their mental health, compared to four years ago. 

Dignity in Dying has today published a new report on the network of anti-choice activists that is working together to attempt to silence the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) over its recent survey on assisted dying.

BSNA members are disappointed that Channel 4 televised a misleading episode of Dispatches on 18th March 2019, with many inaccuracies and assertions likely to unduly concern parents who, whether due to medical need or personal choice, feed their children infant formula.  

BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) continues to support the Government’s plan to ban pre-watershed junk food advertising as part of the childhood obesity strategy.

A study published on 15th March showed associations of dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with higher incidences of mortality and cardiovascular disease. BANT would like to take the opportunity to comment on the research since the consumption of eggs and links to heart disease have been controversial for decades.

Social media addiction may need to be classed as a disease to combat a "crisis" in young people's health, MPs have said.

Junk food advertising on TV and online could be banned before 9pm in a bid by the Government to crack down on childhood obesity.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is delighted to announce that Dr Katherine Henderson has been elected as its next president.

The NHS has released their latest set of data to show how they are performing in England when it comes to treating people for mental health problems where they live. Regularly publishing these data forms part of its commitment to delivering promises outlined in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, including greater transparency and monitoring of progress.

Responding to today’s figures showing another decline in emergency care performance, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Taj Hassan said: “Both these figures and the fact that this crisis is going unnoticed while the country is consumed by Brexit is deeply disappointing.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) supports the continued use of the four-hour access standard as a high-level metric to monitor emergency care system performance.

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, is calling on Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to match words with actions and provide emergency cash injection for the social care sector in his Spring Statement, to help providers address the ongoing recruitment crisis in the sector.

Ministers are set to implement new price capping powers to prevent a surge in drug prices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Our weekly Winter Flow Report (attached) provides updates on four hour standard performance at A&E, delayed transfers of care, acute bed capacity, cancelled elective operations and the number of locum staff employed within emergency departments. The report shows that in the week ending 3 March 2019, average Four Hour Standard Performance was 80.49%.

Women's Health and Inequalities Minister, Jackie Doyle-Price calls on both the NHS and wider society to do more to educate women about what's normal when it comes to their health and dispel ongoing myths to encourage an open dialogue between both men and women.