The Department of Health has revealed it is to scrap plans for healthy children under five to continue to be vaccinated against swine flu, just three months after urging GPs to vaccinate more than three million youngsters against the outbreak.
Positive emotions may protect against heart disease, according to a major study that found people who usually feel happy, enthusiastic and content are less at risk of ischaemic heart disease than ‘negative’ people.
A third of PCTs have been forced to cancel or reschedule GP appraisals after the NHS Appraisal Toolkit was shut down, with some offering hundreds of pounds of compensation, Pulse can reveal.
Pulmonary rehabilitation delivered in a community setting is as effective as that given in hospital, a Department of Health-funded analysis has concluded
Exclusive: The Government’s NHS Choices website has had to investigate more than 260 comments left by patients about GP practices over complaints that they are ‘offensive or unsuitable’, since launching the rating facility in October.