To mark World Aids Day (1st December 2018), Marc Thompson of the Terrence Higgins Trust talks about progress on reducing new cases of HIV in the UK. ‘We have come a long way to achieving our aspiration of getting down to zero new cases of HIV in the UK although we haven’t got there yet. […]
Use of practitioner-led complementary and alternative medicine (CAM), such as acupuncture, massage, osteopathy and chiropractic treatment, rose from 12 per cent of the population in 2005 to 16 per cent of the population in 2015, according to a survey led by researchers at the University of Bristol’s Centre for Academic Primary Care. However, access to […]
As NHS workers, we’ve all felt uneasy or isolated at times travelling home late, or in the wee hours. On November 8th the Suzi Lamplugh Trust, founded in 1986, by Diane and Paul Lamplugh, parents of murdered estate agent Suzie Lamplugh, held National Personal Safety Day encouraging people, particularly lone workers, (as their daughter Suzie […]
The Chancellor had several key questions to answer at this Budget, so that patients could understand how he would be ensuring the health and care system has the resources it needs. Instead, he has produced a Budget that tells patients nothing. We already knew that he had committed to five more years of below-trend growth […]
It’s time to act on secondary breast cancer which is the stage when breast cancer spreads to other parts of the body and sadly becomes incurable. It’s the main cause of the 11,500 deaths from the disease every year in the UK. With secondary breast cancer still taking lives on a heart-breaking scale, we need […]
The growing workload crisis in NHS primary care could be helped by the systematic integration of community health workers at scale, a study shows. Published by the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, the modelling study was led by researchers at Imperial College London. Using a model introduced in Brazil’s Family Health Strategy, they […]
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Wellcome launches a £20,000 photography prize to showcase powerful stories about health and invites doctors, researchers, clinical photographers and other health professionals to submit their entries A new international photography prize for pictures that tell stories about health issues and encourage a more diverse view of what research and health mean has been launched by […]
Back in the 1970s breastfeeding rates were incredibly low. Only around 28% of women in the UK breastfed their babies and that figure included mothers who stopped after the first few feeds. At that time so many mothers formula fed that pregnant women might never have seen a breastfeeding baby, and they often had the […]
Giving blood saves lives. […]
Children’s young skin is sensitive and precious, and it is natural for parents to worry that any damage will leave visible scars. From babies exploring their new world to school children in the playground, accidents and injuries are commonplace. In fact, more than two million children under the age of 15 experience accidents in and […]