Nurses face three-year competency checks
Nurses and midwives will face competency checks every three years involving feedback from patients under a new code of conduct to put compassion back into the heart of nursing.
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Award-winning slimmers who lost 32 stone between them reveal how they transformed their lives
The trio each won £1,000 as part of this year’s Rosemary Conley National Slimmer of the Year Award.
Daughter’s dying moments recorded on mother’s answerphone
A grieving mother received an answerphone message recording her daughter’s dying moments hours after doctors had misdiagnosed her deadly pneumonia.
Sex as good as sport for burning calories
If getting out of bed for a walk or a game of tennis to shed the Christmas pounds feels too much like hard work, scientists have discovered that staying in bed could be just as beneficial.
Spoon-fed babies more likely to be overweight
Babies who are spoon-fed by their parents during weaning have a higher chance of becoming overweight, according to a new study.
Anger at ‘shabby truth’ of meetings between ministers and drinks industry in weeks before minimum alcohol pricing was axed
David Cameron today faced claims the government caved in to pressure from the drinks industry to ditch plans to impose minimum alcohol pricing.
Five mysteries of the brain
For centuries, the brain was a mystery. Only in the last few decades have scientists begun to unravel its secrets.
Mental health staff to be based in police stations
Mental health nurses are to be based in police stations and courts in 10 areas of England as part of a pilot scheme aimed at cutting reoffending.
The ‘tyranny’ of NHS inspection
Last week saw the publication of data from the inspection of GP surgeries – which found maggots in two – and a new hospital inspection regime is currently being introduced in England, in the wake of the Stafford Hospital scandal.
Canadian mom falls off her horse and wakes with a SCOTTISH accent that she says has changed her life for the better
A Canadian woman who fell off a horse and awoke with a Scottish accent is now to write a book about how the bizarre accident changed her life.