Poll finds overwhelming majority of public across all parts of the country support assisted dying proposals. 52% of people would feel more positively towards their MP if they supported assisted dying, compared to just 6% who would feel more negatively.

It is vital that parents and carers have the skills and knowledge to spot when their baby or child is sick, writes Sarah Newton

Women across England and Wales will get vital mental health support as part of a major new programme launched by mental health charity Mind and Agenda, the alliance for women and girls at risk.

The Government will not appoint a new disabilities minister until after the Brexit crisis has been resolved, the Tories vice-chairman has said.

Slimming World welcomes the publication of Cancer Research UK’s report Paying the price: new evidence on the link between price promotions, purchasing of less healthy food and drink, and overweight and obesity in Great Britain.

Compassion in Dying responds to the Court of Protection judgment on the case of Mrs Rushton, which was made public yesterday (26 March 2019):

The Government is being accused of driving a staff retention crisis as more than 200,000 nurses have quit the NHS since 2010, a new analysis from Labour has found.

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has published data showing the prevalence of mental health problems among young people in England. The numbers suggest that certain groups of are at greater risk of developing a mental health problem in childhood and adolescence, including people who live in social housing, those whose parents have a mental health problem and those whose families need support from benefits.

Waiting times set a patients’ expectation for when they should begin treatment, but they do nothing to inform a comprehensive treatment programme. President of the Royal College of Anaesthetists, Professor Ravi Mahajan, says the quality of care should not be measured by time based targets alone, but also include post-operative outcomes and the quality of life after surgery.

Hft, a charity supporting adults with learning disabilities, has responded to a consultation by the National Data Guardian for Health and Social Care by calling for information to be consistently provided in accessible formats.

Shadow SNP Spokesperson for Inclusive Society, Brendan O’Hara, writes following his Westminster Hall debate this week on the effect of leaving the European Union on the UK's health and social care sector. 

Dignity in Dying responds to the news that the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) will drop its longstanding opposition to assisted dying and adopt a ‘neutral’ position, following the UK’s largest every survey of medical opinion on this issue.

Research from Mind reveals that emergency services staff and volunteers are over twice as likely to say that their service encouraged them to talk about their mental health, compared to four years ago. 

NHS Trusts that move resource from disadvantaged to advantaged areas have a moral and statutory duty to evidence how they are narrowing health inequalities, writes Lucy Allan 

Dignity in Dying has today published a new report on the network of anti-choice activists that is working together to attempt to silence the Royal College of Physicians (RCP) over its recent survey on assisted dying.

BSNA members are disappointed that Channel 4 televised a misleading episode of Dispatches on 18th March 2019, with many inaccuracies and assertions likely to unduly concern parents who, whether due to medical need or personal choice, feed their children infant formula.  

BANT (British Association for Nutrition and Lifestyle Medicine) continues to support the Government’s plan to ban pre-watershed junk food advertising as part of the childhood obesity strategy.

A study published on 15th March showed associations of dietary cholesterol or egg consumption with higher incidences of mortality and cardiovascular disease. BANT would like to take the opportunity to comment on the research since the consumption of eggs and links to heart disease have been controversial for decades.

Social media addiction may need to be classed as a disease to combat a "crisis" in young people's health, MPs have said.

Junk food advertising on TV and online could be banned before 9pm in a bid by the Government to crack down on childhood obesity.

Nearly eight years ago, Guy Opperman collapsed suddenly in Central Lobby. Rushed to hospital after being assisted by two colleagues, doctors told him he had a brain tumour. Having survived and raised tens of thousands of pounds for charity, the minister wants to prove that you can always get back on the horse. He talks to Sebastian Whale

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is delighted to announce that Dr Katherine Henderson has been elected as its next president.

The NHS has released their latest set of data to show how they are performing in England when it comes to treating people for mental health problems where they live. Regularly publishing these data forms part of its commitment to delivering promises outlined in the Five Year Forward View for Mental Health, including greater transparency and monitoring of progress.

Responding to today’s figures showing another decline in emergency care performance, President of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine, Dr Taj Hassan said: “Both these figures and the fact that this crisis is going unnoticed while the country is consumed by Brexit is deeply disappointing.