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Multiple patients are admitted to hospital with inhalers that they are using incorrectly or are unable to use. This audit looks at patients who are prescribed inhalers for COPD.

The health secretary, Thérèse Coffey, is expected to delay or cancel the publication of an action plan to tackle smoking, according to The Guardian.

The British Medical Association (BMA) is calling on the government to recognise that preserving the health of the population is essential to economic prosperity.

The Scottish government has been warned to make changes or risk losing up to half of the crucial junior doctors as current issues in the NHS are leaving them feeling demoralised, undervalued and exhausted.

There has been a significant reduction in the most severe cases of Long Covid since the introduction of vaccines in the UK, according to new research.

Since the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic the NHS has had to transform the way it has been working with older people living with frailty. This study investigates the effect of telephone triage on persons awaiting comprehensive geriatric assessment in the secondary care setting.

Thousands of new general practice staff members will be recruited this winter to free up GPs to see more patients, according to new NHS England plans.

The Care Quality Commission (CQC) and Healthwatch England are asking patients with chronic and long-term conditions to give feedback on their care to enable the NHS to spot issues and identify where services may need more help.

The 300,000 members of the Royal College of Nursing (RCN) will receive strike ballot papers in the post today (Thursday) after years of being "pushed to the edge" with patient safety paying the price.

The government must do more to engage with health leaders if strike action is to be avoided this winter, the British Medical Association (BMA) has said.

People who are diagnosed with early onset dementia are nearly seven times more likely to take their own life, according to new UK study.

The BMA junior doctors committee has voted to go to a ballot for industrial action in early January due to the government’s continual failure to value them and "reverse years of pay erosion". 

The Inequalities in Health Alliance (IHA) has written to the health secretary Dr Thérèse Coffey insisting she commits to publishing the Health Disparities White Paper by the end of this year.

NICE has conditionally recommended five wearable devices for patients with Parkinson’s disease, which will enable the NHS to better collect data on patients’ symptoms.

Researchers from University College London (UCL) have developed a blood test which may be able to predict people’s likelihood of developing Long Covid.