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The Royal College of General Practitioners has backed new NICE physical activity guidance and urged employers to swiftly implement the recommendations in some capacity to tackle sedentary behaviour in the workplace.

Ahead of this year's Learning Disability Today Conference, Jim Blair, consultant nurse learning (Intellectual) disabilities, Great Ormond Street Hospital, looks at some of the more common health problems faced by people with learning disabilities.

Good care costs less when it starts with best practice. Robert Dunlop, Clinical Director, of Elsevier Clinical Solutions looks at how clinicians can deliver better care for better value using the right clinical decision support tools.

GPs should be informing patients about the symptoms of atrial fibrillation and teaching them how to check for an irregular pulse using the fingertip approach, according to a new paper published by the European Society of Cardiology.

A new evaluation from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has found that Sure Start, a programme targeted at parents and children under the age of four living in the most disadvantaged areas, has major health benefits for children.

A new NIHR-funded study found that rates of non-suicidal self-harm rose in England between 2000 and 2014, from 2% of the population to 6% and suggested that the increase could lead to self-harm becoming normalised for young people. 

Jamie Prangnell, managing director of Appadoodle, shares his story of working with a mental health trust and young people themselves in developing a series of 'game-style' apps that aim to help improve young people's chances of recovery.

RCGP Scotland has called for 11% of Scottish NHS funding to be allocated to general practice to help tackle health inequalities, improve GP recruitment into areas of deprivation which traditionally struggle to attract GPs, and reduce pressure on vital hospital services.

A precision cancer drug that's designed to kill cancer cells that carry a fault in the BRCA genes could hold some advanced pancreatic cancers at bay for a short time after chemo, according to new clinical trial results. 

NHS England and NHS Improvement have published the interim NHS People Plan that sets a vision for how people working in the NHS will be supported to deliver care and identifies the actions it will take to help them.  

The following article provides an evidence-based practical guide to managing recurrent pregnancy loss with a focus on issues that are useful for patient management.

New research from Queen Mary University of London has shown that drinking coffee, including in people who drink up to 25 cups a day, is not associated with having stiffer arteries.

Less than 10% of heart failure patients comply with advice on salt and fluid restrictions, daily weighing, and physical activity, according to a study presented at the Heart Failure 2019 Conference.

The Royal College of Psychiatrists has called on NICE to update its antidepressant withdrawal advice to reflect the wide range of experience patients have with antidepressant withdrawal after it listened to the experience of patients and other clinicians including GPs.

The number of fully-qualified GPs in England has fallen by 1.5% over the past year, but the headcount of nurses and non-clinical staff has increased in the same period, according to figures published by NHS Digital.