Alcohol Treatment Services – report by House of Commons Committee
New report from the House of Commons finds that 82% of the 600,000 dependent drinkers in England are not in...
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NHS England launches intercultural dementia care guide
The new guide is designed to help healthcare workers provide the very best dementia care for people from a wide...
Hospice at home can enable people to have a good death in the place of their choosing – alert by the NIHR
New research finds that hospice at home services allowed almost 3 in 4 (73%) people to die in their preferred...
Understanding unlicensed medicines – report by the All Wales Medicines Strategy Group
The new report contains useful guidance for prescribing unlicensed medicines in secondary care, as well as information for patients and...
How can mental healthcare services meet the needs of people from ethnically diverse groups? – Alert by the NIHR
This new alert summarises recent research where evidence was explored about how ethnic inequalities are created and sustained in mental...
NHS England publishes teenage and young adult cancer clinical network specification
The new network aims to help service users to access the right care in the right place and at the...
How to reduce medications for people with multiple long-term conditions
Factors identified to help clinicians deprescribe include clarity on how and when to prescribe outside of guidelines, as well as...
General practice and secondary care: working better together – a report by the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges
This report provides over 50 examples of where local collaboration has helped reduce unnecessary workload in both clinical settings
Press release: The MHRA has announced it will be the first drug safety regulator in the world to pilot its own genetic ‘biobank’
The biobank will operate alongside the MHRA’s Yellow Card reporting site and will contain genetic data and patient samples.
NICE publishes decision aid to guide patient discussions regarding discontinuation of benzodiazepines or z-drugs
This aid is designed to help patients who have been prescribed a benzodiazepine or z-drug for anxiety or sleeping problems,
‘Learning Disabilities: policies to reduce inpatient care’ a report by the House of Commons Library
In February 2023, there were 2,045 people with a learning disability or autism receiving inpatient care, of which over half...