NICE warns drug appraisals could take longer after drug manufacturers win Alzheimer's legal challenge.

A Bradford GP is being treated for shock after her husband died in a jet skiing accident in Australia.

The future face of general practice is female. Prisca Middlemiss asked an all-women team for their views.

A 'significant minority' of GPs are refusing to participate in the summary care record (SCR) programme, say researchers.

The RCN could bail out of the three-year pay deal by Christmas if inflation is 0.1 per cent higher than the government predicts, Independent Nurse can reveal.

Health secretary Alan Johnson has hit out at NHS organisations that fail to offer nurses access to continuing professional development and training.

One in four specialist nurses have been threatened with redundancy in their current post, and jobs remain at risk for one in 20, an RCN survey shows.

The RCN voted to lobby the government to establish a national standard for training and regulation of advanced healthcare assistants (HCAs) at its congress in Bournemouth last week.

A round-up of news from RCN's 2008 Congress.

All changes to the health service will be clinically driven and locally led, says the DoH.

Extended hours GP services will suffer because patients were not consulted, according to a pressure group.

NHS Employers and the GPC have reached an agreement on the maintenance of the GMS contract across the UK in the event of an influenza pandemic.

UK-qualified would-be GPs can expect to be safe in 2009 from the pressure on training places caused by the DoH's repeated failure to restrict the access of immigrant doctors to training.

The Royal College of Nursing and the charity WellChild have launched a campaign calling on the DoH to train more specialist community children’s nurses to boost care for children and young people with long-term conditions.