Around three-quarters offer face-to-face palliative care on weekdays only. However, the report found one in four fail to provide a decent quality of service at any time.
The appalling diets of the nations teenagers have been exposed by a report which shows that many are already putting themselves at risk of diabetes, obesity and heart disease.
Two articles claiming cholesterol-reducing statins may be unsafe are to be investigated and could be retracted by the British Medical Journal.
Scientists have developed a blood test that can predict whether women having early contractions will go on to give birth too soon.
The care given to people dying in hospital is “deeply concerning”, according to doctors who have carried out a review of standards in England.
Millions more people should be offered free vitamin D supplements under proposals from the government’s health advisers to tackle the increasingly widespread deficiency in the vitamin.
So far, it hasnt been the best week for the female of the species. Yesterday, researchers in the U.S. claimed there is no real evidence that a diet rich in red wine and chocolate is good for you (theyre lying, obviously).
A nurse admitted working the equivalent of 11 days in one week, including 30-hour stretches without a break.
Failings in elderly care at two Welsh hospitals could be down to a lack of dedicated wards and nurses trained to care for those with complex needs, it has been claimed.
Failures in elderly care at two Welsh hospitals highlighted in a damning report are “unacceptable”, the older people’s commissioner for Wales says.
