Health & NHS

Lesbian, gay and bisexual women are being urged to attended cervical cancer screening tests as numbers remain low.

Recommendations of ways to reduce exposure to indoor air pollution has been published in new guidance by NICE.

The RPS has welcomed the publication of the NHS Patient Safety Strategy, and says that pharmacists will take centre stage.

Category M reimbursement prices will increase by £15 million a month from August, the DHSC has said.

Increasing stress levels as 60.6 per cent of carers have reported feeling stressed in 2018-19.

People with dementia should be offered activates to promote wellbeing, according to new NICE guidance.

Pharmacists in all settings should be integrated into services aimed at preventing and managing type 2 diabetes.

Many people would talk to a community pharmacist more often than a GP about the early warning signs of cancer.

Boys aged 12 and 13 will be offered the free HPV vaccine from September for the first time.

Travellers warned of MMR risk when travelling to Europe.

Obesity has trumped cancer as the leading cause of four cancers.

NHS England approves prescribing curbs on seven more items.

Gambling addiction services being rolled out across England.

Public Health England highlights inconsistencies between national infant feeding advice and some babyfoods.

The number of adult smokers has fallen by around 1.8 million in England over seven years.

Anderson calls for decriminalisation of dispensing errors to be extended to hospital pharmacists. 

Westminster's decision to impose cuts in England triggered positive changes for the sector in Wales, the NPA conference heard.

A survey reveals 87% of pharmacists in the UK think pharmacy has been slow to take up new technologies.

A patient referral model could lead to 20.4m GP consultations being transferred to community pharmacy.

RPS chief Paul Bennett vows to work with independent pharmacists as the new NHS structures emerge.