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In July NICE published new guidelines on safe staffing for nursing in acute hospitals. You can read these guidelines on the NICE webiste.

Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham has given a speech on health and social care at the Labour Party conference, in which he largely reiterated Labour's commitement to integrated care and repealing the Health and Social Care Act. In his…

Children who start toilet training before age 2 have a three times higher risk of developing daytime wetting problems later, according to new research at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center. The study, involved 112 children ages 3 to 10.…

Men with a specific pattern of baldness at age 45 have a 40% increased risk of later developing aggressive prostate cancer, according to a new study published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology. Increasingly, evidence is suggesting that…

Prostate cancer is the second most common cancer in men around the world, but a new study suggests that eating 10 or more portions of tomatoes a week significantly lowers the risk of developing this disease. The study, a first of its kind…

Scientists have given us many reasons not to smoke, but now, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania provide evidence that, in white women with specific genetic variations, smoking causes early signs of menopause - up to 9 years…

Continence Advisor or Continence Physiotherapist - Do you know who does what? You've probably heard your GP mention Continence Advisors and Continence Physiotherapists before, but do you really know who does what? Although nowadays both…

If you would like to view a helpful video about how pelvic floor muscle exercises can help with SUI, especially after childbirth please click here to view it. Video shown with the permission of Women’s Physiotherapy Services, Cambridge…

NICE have published a guideline on bladder cancer.  This guideline offers evidence-based advice on the diagnosis and management of bladder cancer in adults (18 years and older) referred from primary care with suspected bladder cancer, and…

The results of a clinical study were recently published, looking specifically at the use of anticholinergics (cumulative) and the development of dementia for people over the age of 65. 1   Results from the study showed that the long-term…