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Over 250 global cancer and health leaders gathered at the World Cancer Leaders' Summit (WCLS) to call for a comprehensive and robust World Health Assembly (WHA) cancer resolution in 2017.

GPs and practice nurses should receive more training in mental health, according to a charity, after new research has revealed almost half have not undertaken training in it.

Latest figures calculated from The Care Quality Commission (CQC) show just 1% of all UK organisations providing care in the home have achieved its coveted ‘outstanding’ rating.

Everyone who is diagnosed with colorectal cancer should be tested for an inherited genetic condition called Lynch syndrome (LS), NICE has recommended in new draft guidance published for consultation.

Leading health experts have described the medical rationale for stroke being a disease of the brain as 'overwhelming'. The call was made by leading neurology experts in The Lancet.

The European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Disease (ESCMID) and its specialist vaccine study group, the ESCMID Study Group for Vaccines (EVASG) is calling on all pregnant women to sign up for their flu vaccine.

Cancer patients are being given a new consent form to better explain the drugs they will be given before starting treatment.

The current availability of mental health services does not meet the increasingly high demand from our ageing population according to a new Age UK report.

Coeliac UK welcomes the release of a new NICE quality standard on coeliac disease to drive standards in the diagnosis and care of people with coeliac disease but is concerned that many Clinical Commissioning Groups (CCGs) in England will not reverse blanket bans on gluten-free prescribing in some areas which leave vulnerable people at risk

Experts are calling for a "drastic improvement" in lung cancer care in order to improve poor UK survival rates, says a new report published today.

GP practices across England will benefit from NHS England's Estates and Technology Transformation Fund, which will see investment to expand and improve out of hospital care for patients, NHS England's chief executive Simon Stevens has announced.

There is a strong link between deprivation and the likelihood of recovering from mental illness such as anxiety and depression, according to official statistics published today.

Ongentys (opicapone) has been launched in the UK for the treatment of adult Parkinson´s disease patients with motor fluctuations.

The European Medicines Agency's Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) has expressed a positive opinion regarding the licence extension for Trisenox (arsenic trioxide). The extension will now cover the first-line treatment of low to intermediate risk acute promyelocytic leukaemia (APL), Teva Pharmaceutical Industries has announced.

While most health and adult social care services in England provide safe, high quality, compassionate care currently, the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has warned that pressure rising on demand, access and cost mean that this may not last.