A new study that hopes to improve the success rate of research trials for treatments in Alzheimer’s disease is announced today (Monday 22 August 2016) by the Medical Research Council and National Institute for Health Research. 

Leading weight management organisation Slimming World responds to the Government's newly published Childhood Obesity Strategy.

Oscar-nominated actress Carey Mulligan has today been appointed by the Alzheimer’s Society and Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt as the first ever UK Global Dementia Friends Ambassador.

NHS Blood and Transplant is uniting with donor organisations and launching a campaign to urge more people to become donors.

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  Blood services around the world join Missing Type campaign to reverse decline in new donors.

  
  


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  Survey reveals 30% drop in new donors across 21 countries last year compared to decade ago

  
  


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  NHS Blood and Transplant says younger and more diverse blood donor community needed in England

  
  


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  Campaign launches 16th August 2016

  
  

The NHS is facing a crisis. Hospital trusts seem powerless to halt spiralling numbers of healthy patients being stuck in hospital beds because they can’t be discharged. 

Doctors are feeling the pressure from the current adversarial climate where complaints and claims are common, but the Medical Defence Union (MDU) revealed that it is defending more negligence claims successfully.

Responding to publication of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence’s (NICE) latest quality standards for Obesity Clinical Assessment and Management, Slimming World, the largest group-based weight loss organisation in the UK and Ireland, warns that surgery is not a quick fix for obesity and that expert support and compassion are key.

Today’s review of GP indemnity by the Department of Health and NHS England, should provide GPs with relief from the unsustainable increases in the cost of indemnity driven by spiralling litigation, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said today. 

Study led by senior lecturer at the University of Hertfordshire reveals new insights into the pathophysiology of Spinal Muscular Atrophy.

Research presented today (Wednesday 27 July) at the Alzheimer’s Association International Conference 2016 has shown that the drug LMTX may slow down brain shrinkage in some people with mild to moderate Alzheimer’s disease by up to a third. It also improved cognition and the ability of some people with Alzheimer’s to carry out their daily activities when taken over a 15-month period.

The new international development secretary Priti Patel is being asked what steps are being taken for the 200 NHS workers and academics, who risked their lives in combating the deadly Ebola virus disease, to receive the more than £4,000 bonus that was paid to colleagues working for Public Health England (PHE). 

Margaret Ritchie MP has tabled an Early Day Motion demanding that the government ensures renters up and down the country are properly protected from carbon monoxide poisoning.

The NHS Litigation Authority, the body which pays compensation on behalf of English hospitals, has reported its provisions for hospital clinical negligence claims have almost doubled since last year to £56.4 billion, reaching record levels.  

The Department of Health and its partners are still some way from implementing a plan to put the NHS’ finances in England on a sustainable footing, according to three reports issued by the Comptroller and Auditor General today. These concern the accounts of the Department of Health, NHS England and the Consolidated Accounts of the NHS foundation trusts.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has welcomed the expansion of the GMC’s provisional enquiry scheme aimed at speeding up the GMC’s fitness to practise procedures. From 1 July cases where doctors are involved in a single clinical incident will be included, further reducing the impact of GMC investigations. 

The College fully recognises that the recent dispute over the junior doctors contract has not been solely about terms and conditions, but is a reflection on a number of long standing concerns about the direction of medical training in the UK.

A new report launched by Teenage Cancer Trust at a parliamentary event last week examines the transformative and viable impact of cancer education in secondary schools. 

New findings reveal NHS initiative to get vulnerable people online has dramatically improved their health and wellbeing and reduced demand for front line services.

In reaction to the reappointment of Jeremy Hunt as Secretary of State for Health, Janet Morrison, Chief Executive of Independent Age, the older people’s charity said:

Ahead of addressing the Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee on unsafe hospital discharge practice in the NHS, CEO of Independent Age Janet Morrison urges the Government to confront the issue head on. 

On the day of his debate, Democratic Unionist Party​ MP Jim Shannon calls on the Government to consider the key to advancing blood cancer treatment. 

Ahead of the Westminster Hall debate on blood cancers and the Cancer Drugs Fund, Dr Alasdair Rankin, Director of Research at  Bloodwise, the UK’s largest blood cancer charity commented: