A Conservative MP has blasted activists who left a coffin outsider her constituency office as they protested hospital cuts.

Research released today by mental health charity Mind reveals serious problems with the planning around discharging people from mental health hospitals. 

Cutting edge collaboration between Medicines Discovery Catapult and the University of Leeds takes microbubble technology one step closer to use in patients

Jeremy Hunt has warned Facebook to "stay away from my kids" after the social media giant announced it was offering accounts to children under 13.

The Health Secretary has announced that 300 extra radiologists will be taken on in England, in a boost for the NHS. 

Thousands of families experience the impact of cardiac arrest each year but if those around them knew what to do, the chance of survival could increase to up to 70%, says Dr Lionel Jarvis, Chair of St John Ambulance.

NHS England held their regular Board meeting yesterday, but this one was never going to be your standard “apologies for absences” and jugs of warm water affair, says Dods Political Consultant Bruce Reilly.

For the last ten years, the gap between the employment rate of disabled people and non-disabled people hasn’t closed, says Scope CEO Mark Atkinson.

Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, praised the work of Alzheimer’s Society which he said was ‘moving the needle on dementia and Alzheimer’s.’

The UK’s largest Clinical Research Facility (CRF), Manchester, has been strengthened by the election of Mark Samuels to its Governance Board. Mark is Chief Business and Strategy Officer at the Medicines Discovery Catapult.

In his presentation to the NHS England Board this morning Simon Stevens said that in the context of having to make difficult decisions about NHS funding, ‘we need to protect the planned investment that we have in mental health’.

The Government's new employment strategy for disabled people ‘Improving Lives: the Future of Work, Health and Disability’ was published today.

Compassion in Dying wanted to explore some of the barriers that prevent people from receiving the care and treatment that’s right for them, says Chief Exec Sarah Wootton.

The Government has laid out new plans to get one million more disabled people into work over the next ten years.

A Slimming World survey, conducted with Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, of over 1,800 slimmers reveals of the dangers of buying slimming pills online.

MPs in the State of Victoria in Australia have today (Wednesday 29th November 2017) passed a Bill that will allow terminally ill adults the option of an assisted death in their final months of life. 

The NHS is to bring in thousands of foreign nurses for time-limited placements to ease staffing shortages in English hospitals, health officials have said. 

As leaders of the professional bodies for midwives and obstetricians, Royal College of Midwives (RCM) the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) welcome this refreshed Maternity Safety Strategy and the targets and commitments it contains.

An innovative new publication from Compassion in Dying launches today (Tuesday 28th November 2017), using the authentic voices of dying people to empower others to make informed decisions about their care and treatment.  

Mothers who have faced a full-term stillbirth or life-changing injuries to babies could be given the right to an investigation by a coroner, under plans to be announced by Jeremy Hunt.

We need to build on the Prime Minister's excellent initiative and her praiseworthy Race Disparity Audit to help tackle institutionalised racism in the NHS mental health system, says Lord Boateng.

Labour has accused the Government of breaking its manifesto pledge to increase NHS funding by £8bn in real-terms over the next five years.

Yesterday's Budget saw people with dementia see their need for better care being pushed aside, says Alzheimer's Society.

NHS bosses say they have been forced into difficult decisions on where to prioritise spending – after Philip Hammond offered the health service less than half the Budget boost it asked for.