New guidelines from government encourage companies to reduce the levels of sugar and salt in commercial baby foods.

Threat of nurse redundancies and ongoing uncertainty around incoming cuts to ICBs is placing significant strain on the ...

A new survey has revealed the significant blame and stigma that people with type 1 and type 2 diabetes can face in the UK.

Adolescents who experience sleep problems are more likely to self-harm, according to a study of over 10,000 teenagers.

England’s most senior nursing leader has penned a letter outlining a new series of actions aimed at reducing sexual misconduct ...

Teenagers who experience menstrual symptoms such as heavy or prolonged bleeding are more likely to miss more school and achieve less.

District nurses in Scotland have today staged a protest outside the offices of NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde (NHS GGC) in a dispute over their job grades and pay. The rally comes as around 130 local ...

Chickenpox is an extremely contagious disease, caused by the varicella zoster virus. It has never been on the UK routine vaccination schedule, commonly being seen as a childhood ‘rite of passage’ that ...

It is important to show that GP nursing ‘is not a basic role’ but in many ways a profession that is ‘enhanced and advanced’ ...

General practice nurse Jane Coomber asks why is it such a difficult role to get into and what more can we do to support practice nurses?

Only a quarter of general practice nursing staff have been told by their employer how much they will be receiving as a pay ...

The NMC caseload for FtP referrals at screening – the initial stage of the process – has fallen to its lowest level in five years ...