Antimicrobial resistance is one of the 21st century's greatest health threats. To manage this global challenge, we urgently need more data, writes Lef Apostolakis from POST

We must address all of the challenges if Artificial Intelligence is to save time, money, and lives, writes Lord Holmes of Richmond

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine (RCEM) supports the continued use of the four-hour access standard as a high-level metric to monitor emergency care system performance.

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities, is calling on Chancellor of the Exchequer Philip Hammond to match words with actions and provide emergency cash injection for the social care sector in his Spring Statement, to help providers address the ongoing recruitment crisis in the sector.

Ministers are set to implement new price capping powers to prevent a surge in drug prices in the event of a no-deal Brexit.

Our weekly Winter Flow Report (attached) provides updates on four hour standard performance at A&E, delayed transfers of care, acute bed capacity, cancelled elective operations and the number of locum staff employed within emergency departments. The report shows that in the week ending 3 March 2019, average Four Hour Standard Performance was 80.49%.

Women's Health and Inequalities Minister, Jackie Doyle-Price calls on both the NHS and wider society to do more to educate women about what's normal when it comes to their health and dispel ongoing myths to encourage an open dialogue between both men and women.

On International Women’s Day 2019 Age UK warns that women are generally being hurt the most by the lack of care and support. Alzheimer’s Society comments:

Liberal Democrat Commons Justice spokesperson Wera Hobhouse writes ahead of #InternationalWomensDay, a year on from introducing a Bill to make upskirting a specific offence, as she introduces a Bill demanding that all mothers in the UK are given a six-week post-natal mental health check.

The latest survey highlighting the public’s declining satisfaction with the NHS is ‘a sorry indictment of the government’s continuing inept stewardship of the health service’, Unite, Britain and Ireland’s largest union, said today. 

Hft, a national charity that supports adults with learning disabilities is reflecting on the achievements of the women who run, support and use its services this International Women’s Day.

The percentage of Britons who are satisfied with the performance of the NHS has fallen to its lowest in more than a decade, a new report has found.

The data for the 2018-19 Winter Flow Project at its half way point presents a portrait of conditions in Emergency Departments that continue to become increasingly challenging, says Gordon Miles, RCEM Chief Executive.

The data for the 2018-19 Winter Flow Project at its half way point presents a portrait of conditions in Emergency Departments that continue to become increasingly challenging, says Gordon Miles, RCEM Chief Executive.

The Health for Care coalition, a new group of health organisations, led by the NHS Confederation is urging the Government to act to rescue the social care system.  Millions of vulnerable people are being deprived of the care and support they need because of the Government’s failure to grasp the crisis in social care, with services in parts of the country near collapse.

Responding to data from the College’s Winter Flow Project for the week ending 24 February 2019 showing average four-hour performance at over 50 emergency departments at 79.01% – up from 76.87% the previous week.

The Royal College of Emergency Medicine is committed, first and foremost, to patient safety and the delivery of quality care for our patients on a consistent basis in Emergency Departments – the most intense environment in the NHS.

Sixteen Medical Royal Colleges and Associations have written a joint letter to the Foreign Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, asking the government to signal its support for the Colombo Declaration.

To mark Rare Diseases Day, Health Minister, Baroness Blackwood has announced the National Genomics Healthcare Strategy which will ensure that all rare disease patients in the NHS get earlier diagnosis, more targeted treatment and better care, as well as revolutionising the diagnosis and treatment of other diseases, such as cancer.

Rare Disease Day, celebrated on February 28, is an important annual reminder of the work carried out, all year round, by advocates across the UK to improve awareness of rare diseases and the challenges of living with them, says Nicola Redfern, UK General Manager, Bluebird Bio.

Lib Dem peer Baroness Parminter writes to mark Eating Disorder Awareness Week, following her Lords question on ‘Ensuring those suffering from an eating disorder can access treatment and support’

The Government’s expected Social Care Green Paper needs to set out how social care and dental services will work together in the future, says Andrew Selous MP.

The annual Mental Health Act report, published today by the Care Quality Commission (CQC), looks at the care and treatment people received when they are held under various sections of the Mental Health Act.

One of the best ways of creating a fairer society is to give the right support and care to children in the crucial first 1,000 days of their lives, writes Paul Williams