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Maternity care that involves a midwife as the main care provider leads to better outcomes for most women, compared with shared care or medical-led approaches, according to a systematic review published in The Cochrane Library.

Dr George Kassianos, RCGP Immunisation Lead and President of the British Global & Travel Health Association, documents recent ambitious changes to our immunisation programme and warns that, once again, GPs will be shouldering the main burden.

Death rates following hip replacement surgery fell by half in England and Wales between 2003 and 2011, according to research based on the National Joint Registry.

Family doctors feel increasingly fed up, overworked, tied up in red tape and worried that €œdubious€ Government targets are stopping them treating needier patients, a survey has found.

The latest data pack from DFE, on improving permanency arrangements, is an extensive and useful one. CareKnowledge editor Jim Kennedy looks into how it could impact on placement stability.

A team of Indian doctors have performed two surgeries while live streaming the procedures to their students using the revolutionary Google Glass device.

Napping for more than 30 minutes at a time can raise the chances of developing type two diabetes, according to the results of a study of more than 27,000 people in China.

Hard-up NHS hospitals are doing record numbers of private operations to stay afloat with figures showing their income from private patients rose 12% last year.

More hospitals in England are likely to be put in special measures, the health secretary has said as he unveiled the rescue plan for failing trusts.

Doctors and managers are becoming increasingly sceptical about the NHS's ability to meet the government's £20billion efficiency savings target by 2015, according to a report in onedica.com.

Doctors in a Worcestershire hospital have set out their intention to keep a full A&E and maternity services at the Alexandra Hospital in Bromsgrove. 

General practitioners should give up their independent contractor status and become NHS employees according to the Head of the Department of Primary Care & Public Health at Imperial College London.

An eye movement test to assist diagnosis of major adult psychiatric disorders has been devised by researchers from the University of Aberdeen.

Family doctors feel increasingly fed up, overworked, tied up in red tape and worried that €œdubious€ Government targets are stopping them treating needier patients, a survey has found.

A team of German doctors have performed liver surgery with the aid of a tablet computer in what has been described as one of the first surgeries of its kind.