Building literacy for better health in Middlesbrough
Our ability to read, write and communicate in everyday situations has a huge influence on our wellbeing and health.
Our ability to read, write and communicate in everyday situations has a huge influence on our wellbeing and health.
Despite 90% of patient interactions with the NHS occurring in primary care, traditionally, the medical school curriculum has been dominated by secondary care.
90,000. That’s the number of live vacancies on any given day in adult social care across England and highlights the recruitment and retention challenges facing our sector.
We challenged writers to create a dystopian future in which society had failed to act on the social and commercial determinants of health.
The evenings are drawing in, and NHS minds are once again focusing on the impending winter pressures.
The NHS presents an economic dilemma. On the one hand we boast one of the best performing and most highly efficient health care systems in the world, yet on the other we see services and the staff tha...
In Dr Fisher’s consultation room, work and its relationship with physical and mental health is linked to a range of patient complaints. In her latest blog, she explores how making more employment good...
With the 70-year anniversary of the NHS, July has been a month for combining celebration for what the NHS continues to achieve with calls for further debate and action to ensure health and care servic...
A new data linkage study examines drivers of children's use of health care services such as who they live with and the health of their parents, particularly their mental health.
In its 70th year, the NHS faces a particularly virulent form of a recurring problem: workforce shortages. The risk is that current critical shortages become endemic in the system.