Financial constraints have reduced mental health and careers support for college students and narrowed the curriculum, the spending watchdog has warned. A National Audit Office (NAO) report says core funding
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An initiative to stop the use of the continued prescribing of potentially harmful medicines to older patients will be trialled across hospitals in England. Half of older people admitted to
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Low pay and a lack of career benefits are leading to “generations of much-needed talent” being lost from staff working to educate and support society’s youngest children, according to a
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A multi-million pound Government plan to train more apprentice nurses falls short of what is needed, the Royal College of Nursing has said. The Department of Health and Social Care
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Helping frail elderly people manage multiple medicines safely is the focus of a new research project led by Dr Beth Fylan, Senior Lecturer in Patient Safety in the Faculty of Life Sciences at
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Coronavirus and the introduction of lockdown measures significantly raised mental health challenges, particularly for the most vulnerable groups, a study has found. The research, by the University of Bath and
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During the Covid-19 pandemic it has become apparent that the health of a population is not only affected by a virus but also by the resources that are available and
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A trial Covid-19 “clinic-on-wheels” testing facility is being launched in Glasgow. The Connected Mobile Health Clinic (CMHC) is designed to provide remote testing and tracking of care home residents and
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Outbreaks of coronavirus are up to 20 times more likely in large care homes, according to research. The NHS Lothian and Edinburgh University study looked at 189 care homes in
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A second wave of coronavirus infections this winter could be more serious than the first, with 120,000 hospital deaths in a “reasonable worst-case scenario”, scientists advising the Government have warned.
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