Shadow Deputy Leader of the House of Lords, Lord Hunt of Kings Heath, warns that  the current NHS targets regime prevents patients with chronic eye diseases from receiving necessary care.

NHS England’s spending on specialised services has increased at a much greater rate than other parts of the NHS, according to today’s report from the National Audit Office. Although NHS England took responsibility for commissioning these services three years ago, it still does not have an agreed overarching service strategy, consistent information from all providers on costs, access to services and outcomes or how efficiently services are being delivered.

Conor McGinn MP writes on the devastating disease - Dementia with Lewy bodies - which affects more than 100,000 people in Britain.

The government is trying to demonise the junior doctors, in the same way that Margaret Thatcher bullied the miners, Unite, the country’s largest union, said today.

This event follows recommendations made in the APPCOG’s 2015 inquiry report Carbon Monoxide: from awareness to action and the Royal College of Physician’s & Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health’s report Every Breath We Take.

Labour MP and co-Chair of the APPG on Dementia, Debbie Abrahams MP, calls for 'profound changes' to the way our health system treats those with multiple conditions.

Ahead of World Malaria Day, Chair of the APPG for Malaria Jeremy Lefroy MP says anti-malaria aid has a tangible impact on global social and economic health.

Liberal Democrat Lords Spokesperson for the Voluntary Sector, Baroness Barker, writes ahead of her question today on revenue raised by local authorities who raise council tax to offset the cost of social care.

Police Federation response to MIND release: "One in four emergency services workers has thought about ending life"

With the publication of an Independent Mental Health Task Force report, James Morris MP is leading a Whitehall debate to maintain its momentum.

New standards from the GMC for doctors carrying out cosmetic procedures will apply to a wide range of clinicians, not just plastic surgeons, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) explained today. 

The number of claims against dental professionals exceeding a hundred thousand pounds in compensation and legal costs has quadrupled over the last decade, the Dental Defence Union (DDU), said today.

 

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) and Public Health England, have carried out analysis of the weekly and monthly death figures, after the 2015 provisional data showed the highest number of deaths in a single year since 2003 and the highest year on year percentage increase since 1968.

Whilst cases of malaria are finally on the decline, Malaria Consortium argues a long-term global programme is needed to quell dengue fever, one of the fastest growing infectious diseases.

Figures from mental health charity Mind show that almost half (46 per cent) of people with mental health problems have considered or attempted to end their own lives as a result of social factors such as debt, housing and welfare problems, or relationship breakdown, in the last two years[i] On behalf of Mind, YouGov surveyed over 1500 people online who had used mental health services in the last two years on a range of topics including issues that contributed to worsening mental health, suicidal thoughts and behaviour.

Slimming World responds to a newly released health study which reveals more adults are classified obese than underweight. 

Responding to today’s publication of the End of Life Audit Usha Grieve, Director of Partnerships & Information, from Compassion in Dying said it is "beyond doubt that NHS England must do more" to transform end of life care.

All teachers should have an entitlement to mental health training, professional counselling or cognitive behaviour therapy when suffering work-related mental ill health, the Annual Conference of the NASUWT, the largest teachers’ union in the UK, has heard today.