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.

On International Women’s Day 2019 Age UK warns that women are generally being hurt the most by the lack of care and support. Alzheimer’s Society comments:

Liberal Democrat Commons Justice spokesperson Wera Hobhouse writes ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, a year on from introducing a Bill to make upskirting a specific offence, as she introduces a Bill demanding that all mothers in the UK are given a six-week post-natal mental health check.

The latest survey highlighting the public’s declining satisfaction with the NHS is ‘a sorry indictment of the government’s continuing inept stewardship of the health service’, Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said today. 

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities is reflecting on the achievements of the women who run, support and use its services this International Women’s Day.

The percentage of Britons who are satisfied with the performance of the NHS has fallen to its lowest in more than a decade, a new report has found.

The data for the 2018-19 Winter Flow Project at its half way point presents a portrait of conditions in Emergency Departments that continue to become increasingly challenging, says Gordon Miles, RCEM Chief Executive.

The data for the 2018-19 Winter Flow Project at its half way point presents a portrait of conditions in Emergency Departments that continue to become increasingly challenging, says Gordon Miles, RCEM Chief Executive.

The Health for Care coalition, a new group of health organisations, led by the NHS Confederation is urging the Government to act to rescue the social care system.  Millions of vulnerable people are being deprived of the care and support they need because of the Government’s failure to grasp the crisis in social care, with services in parts of the country near collapse.

Responding to data from the College’s Winter Flow Project for the week ending 24 February 2019 showing average four-hour performance at over 50 emergency departments at 79.01% – up from 76.87% the previous week.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is committed, first and foremost, to patient safety and the delivery of quality care for our patients on a consistent basis in Emergency Departments – the most intense environment in the NHS.

Sixteen Medical Royal Colleges and Associations have written a joint letter to the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, asking the government to signal its support for the Colombo Declaration.