New research based on a study at Bradford Teaching Hospitals, shows that hospital inpatients are, on average, likely to miss out on almost 10% of their medication doses. The study, will be presented at the Royal Pharmaceutical ...

A new study suggests that patients can play an important part in reducing medicines wastage by ensuring unused medicines are removed from their repeat prescriptions. Unwanted medicines returned to community pharmacies by patien ...

The Royal Pharmaceutical Society is working in partnership with the charity No Smoking Day to help thousands of smokers to kick the habit and stop smoking on Wednesday, 9th March 2011. This year's "Time to Quit?" campaign will ...

Health Minister, Michael McGimpsey said that a continued lack of funding had resulted in disappointing increases in waiting times.

PSNC is regularly contacted about Local Pharmaceutical Services (LPS) Contracts, mainly as a result of the Essential Small Pharmacy LPS, but also in relation to other LPS Contracts.

The government has confirmed it is planning to scrap the NHS Direct telephone service in England and replace it with an alternative service.

90 per cent of people do not think people with dementia in Northern Ireland are getting enough help and support, new research by Alzheimer's Society found today.

Professor Sir Michael Rawlins, chairman of the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), has suggested that instead of developing complex schemes such as rebates to increase patient access to their innovativ ...

Responding to the consultation on the draft 2011 fees rules for the General Pharmaceutical Council, the National Pharmacy Boards have expressed concern about the lack of data presented by the GPhC to explain the fees they have ...

Mums-to-be who are at-risk of developing hypertension during pregnancy should take a small amount of aspirin every day to ward off the condition, latest NICE guidance suggests.

Written complaints about NHS hospital and community services in England has seen the biggest annual rise since records began over a decade ago.

New figures released today by the Health Protection Agency show that 15 to 24 year olds, particularly young women, continue to be the group most affected by sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in the UK.

Teens are more likely to have chronic headaches or migraines when they are overweight, smoke cigarettes, or get little or no exercise, new research shows.

Tens of thousands of patients are still being placed in mixed sex accommodation every year without clinical justification, new data released by the Department of Health suggest.

An experimental drug called olaparib has been shown to shrink tumours in women whose advanced cancers were caused by faults in their BRCA genes.

Family doctors across Northern Ireland were recently calculating the true cost of a £3.6 million cut in funding to general practice.

Parents who smoke in front of their children or feed them junk food are consigning the younger generation to a lifetime of heart disease, diabetes and even premature death, warns a GP leader.

Following NICE guidance when prescribing drugs to treat conditions such as heart disease and diabetes could help in the drive to save £20 billion in the health service by 2013.

GPs' lack of involvement in maternity care is undermining the care of pregnant women and their families, according to a report published for The King's Fund's Inquiry into the Quality of General Practice in England.

The NPA is to provide meningitis vaccination training at no extra cost to members that sign up to the NPA's flu vaccination training course in September 2010. The NPA is working with The Health Station to allow members to provi ...

Children in England aged 6-11 years with the most severe, allergic asthma are being denied a pioneering treatment that could free them from crippling daily asthma symptoms. The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excelle ...

Providers of drug treatment services must be clear from now on that the long-term ambition for addicts seeking help is successful rehabilitation, under plans set out by National Treatment Agency for Substance Misuse.

A test using a patient's breath could be developed to detect lung, breast, bowel and prostate cancers, a team of scientists have discovered.

The future of Dr Foster Intelligence, one of the UK's main providers of information, analysis and targeted communications to health and social care organisations, is under review, the Department of Health and Dr Foster Holdings ...

Preventing diabetes and depression could cut cases of dementia, a new study suggests. Boosting levels of education and increasing fruit and vegetable consumption would also have a big effect, according to a study published in t ...