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Every acute hospital needs a liaison psychiatry service to manage the mental health needs of patients being treated primarily for physical health conditions, according to a new report.

A dramatic increase in the number of local services supporting older people who are blind or partially sighted as the UK's population rapidly ages is needed according to the Local Optical Committee Support (LOCSU).

A third of GPs are in favour of making people pay if they make unnecessary visits to accident and emergency departments.

A treatment for one of the deadliest cancers has been uncovered by British researchers, who say it can wipe out the disease in less than a week.

More than 20,000 extra GPs, nurses and other NHS staff are needed if the Prime Minister wants his plan for longer surgery opening hours to work, the head of the Royal College of GPs has warned.

NICE has announced that EYLEA should be recommended as a treatment option for visual impairment due to macular oedema secondary to central retinal vein occlusion (CRVO).

The pressures of working in overcrowded A&E units have led hundreds of doctors to quit the NHS for Australia, according to a Guardian newspaper report.

The government has been accused of exaggerating the quality of hospital food, after it was revealed that fewer patient meals meet the standards set for prison food than is claimed by the Department of Health.

National charity PAPYRUS Prevention of Young Suicide is appealing to young people to watch out for each other at the start of the New Year.

Thousands of patients who cost the NHS millions of pounds every year by missing their hospital appointments have been slammed as 'reprehensible'.

Registered dietitian at Wiltshire Farm Foods, Helen Willis, looks at how the named doctor concept could impact on older people's health.

Malnourishment among the older population is to be confronted head on by a new government-funded venture.

Leading members of the medical community have called for greater focus on nutrition within the diagnostic process after a UK opinion poll of people aged 50+ revealed that 86% want more advice about how lifestyle factors such as exercise and nutrition may help those living in the early stages of Alzheimer's disease.

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The DPP-4 inhibitor Onglyza® (saxagliptin), has received a positive recommendation from the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group