Student nurses are struggling to get good practice placements because hospital wards are over-stretched and staff too busy to supervise them, according to an investigation by Nursing Times.
Unqualified care workers are routinely assessing pain in patients with dementia in nearly half of independent care homes, indicates a survey carried out by Napp Pharmaceuticals.
A mother-of-two today urged young people to be alert to the signs and symptoms of dementia, after she was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 40.
Hospital bosses had to declare an internal emergency and turn away ambulances from a packed A&E unit weeks after they closed a nearby emergency department.
Loneliness can be twice as unhealthy as obesity, according to researchers who found that feelings of isolation can have a devastating impact on older people.
The image of elderly women long outliving their husbands caricatured by the television sitcom The Golden Girls could soon be a thing of the past amid evidence that men are closing the gap.
Researchers have found evidence if evidence were needed that men have less sex after becoming a father for the first time.
The Government is considering forcing food manufacturers to add folic acid to bread to prevent babies being born with spina bifida.
They are the dinner party guests nobody wants to sit next to, lest their careful attitude to food makes us feel guilty for tucking in or they judge our meal choices.
Wye Valley NHS Trust, in Hertfordshire, paid £3,717 for one doctor to work a 30-hour shift, the highest single payment of any NHS body.
