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NICE guidance can reduce health inequalities

Primary Care Trusts are being urged to follow NICE guidance in a bid to reduce health inequalities across England

NICE’s Vidaza ruling angers patient groups

NICE's decision not to approve Celgene's Vidaza for a range of bone-marrow diseases has angered UK cancer patient support organisations

New cervical cancer diagnosis guidance

The UK Department of Health has published new guidance to help GPs in the early diagnosis of cervical cancer in young women

Tories claim Labour/NHS IT deal fixing

The Conservative Party have claimed that the government are trying to fix a deal for its £12.7bn NHS IT programme ahead of the next general election

UK junior doctors suffer training squeeze

A BMA survey shows that almost half of UK doctors are missing out on essential training since the implementation of the 48-hour week in 2009

BMA push to stop big business hold on NHS

Doctors' leaders are campaigning to stop the increasing profits being made by commercial companies from their provision of NHS care in England

MPs call to stop funding homeopathy

An influential House of Commons committee has said that all public funding of homeopathy should be stopped

Social conditions and health ‘linked’

Inequalities in socio-economic conditions cause inequalities in standards of health, according to a major new report commissioned by the government

Film showcases Scotland’s GP services

Promoting the best of general practice, BMA Scotland has launched an online video following one GP in Glasgow's typical day

Blood clot guidance could save 10,000 lives

Assessing patients for their risk of developing blood clots as soon as they are admitted to hospital could save 10,000 lives each year

UK Life Sciences Super Cluster launched

A Life Sciences Super Cluster to deliver the next generation of medicines and technologies to patients with chronic diseases has launched in the UK

NICE updates chronic heart failure guidance

The UK's NICE has published draft recommendations on the management of chronic heart failure in adults

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