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The British Medical Association will conduct a consultative ballot of consultants in England next month, to determine whether they would be prepared to take future industrial action.

The government has announced a new plan to give older people more tailored support at home in an attempt to curb unnecessary trips to hospital and improve ambulance response times.

The latest NHS data shows that the core issue facing the NHS is “very high demand and too few GPs,” according to Beccy Baird, Senior Fellow at The King’s Fund.

The government has rejected five of the recommendations from the Women and Equalities Committee report on menopause including the recommendation to consult on making menopause a protected characteristic under the Equality Act 2010 and pilot a specific menopause leave policy.

The first personalised immunotherapy treatment will now be routinely available for patients with an aggressive form of blood cancer following new guidance from the National Institute for Care Excellence (NICE).

The Health Secretary, Steve Barclay, has announced that the government will publish a Major Conditions Strategy, which aims to narrow health inequalities and gain an extra five extra years of Healthy Life Expectancy (HLE) by 2035.

Historically, GPs have been poor at attending and writing reports for Initial Child Protection Conferences. This audit of GP reports submitted for Initial Child Protection Conferences shows how various changes contributed to an improvement in the quality of the reports.

Improving home energy efficiency by retrofitting homes with insulation could see population health improve markedly in England and Wales, according to a study published in The Lancet Planetary Health.

The health and social care committee have recently published a new report which evaluates how England’s healthcare system responds to reports about harmful side effects from medicines and medical devices.

A new vision to fix the 'broken' social care system has been proposed by the Archbishops’ Commission on Reimagining Care which aims to rethink attitudes to care and support by investing in communities and giving unpaid carers a better deal.

Almost a third of patients who are eligible for cervical screening, around 4.6 million, are not taking up invitations for the life-saving test.

The Royal College of GPs has warned that pharmacists and the services they provide must not be seen as ‘GPs on the cheap’ as new report calls for “urgent action” to deliver on the potential of pharmacy teams.

The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling for wholesale reform of the pay review body after a new report suggests that the government has interfered with the process for over a decade.

More than 95% of beds were occupied across adult general and acute hospital wards last week, according to the latest NHS figures.

Adults taking antidepressants should be weaned off their medication ‘in stages’, according to new guidance from the National Institute of Care Excellence (NICE).