The NHS should train medics to prevent autistic people from feeling they get inadequate treatment, an inquiry has found. The Westminster Commission on Autism called on Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt
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A new national study of perinatal mental health care in Scotland has shown a geographically mixed level of service in hospitals and in the community. The report, by the Mental
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Parents of children who died on a cardiac ward have slammed an independent review into the hospital which cared for them as a “cover-up and a whitewash”. The review found
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When considering admitting patients over the age of 65 for acute hospital care, alternatives such as hospital at home, admission to a local community hospital or extended stays and treatment
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Jeremy Hunt said he is “seriously considering” a bid for the Conservative leadership as he called for the public to be given a say on Britain’s terms for leaving the
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More than a third of elderly patients who are dying receive “invasive and potentially harmful” treatments in their last weeks of life, according to the biggest review of its kind.
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Nursing regulators have been implored to ensure that all nurses are “fully competent to deliver high-class care” following changes to the English language test requirements for nurses trained outside the
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The official Leave campaign’s call to spend £350 million a week extra on the NHS with money saved from contributions to the European Union was a “mistake” and cannot be
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Leading midwives have expressed fears over the impact Brexit will have on NHS finances. The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) said that while the full impact of the decision to
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Brexit could have a “huge impact” on the NHS workforce, a leading auditor has warned as figures show that one in every 20 NHS workers in England come from the
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