healthcare

The Government has announced £180m of grant funding for small and medium sized (SME) firms and academics to develop health breakthroughs.

The World Health Organisation (WHO) and Alzheimer's Disease International have reported on dementia onset worldwide, urging Governments to invest in long term care provision.

Diabetes UK has warned half of people with the condition are not meeting their blood pressure target.

Integrating social care with general practices, community nurses, hospitals and social services can improve the quality of care for patients, a study by the Department of Health has found.

Jelf has created the position of director of healthcare in what the employee benefit consultancy calls a "period of ambitious growth".

AXA UK has completed the acquisition of specialist on-line health insurance provider, Health-on-Line.

Questions have been tabled in the House of Lords' asking the government for its assessment of key elements of the private medical insurance (PMI) market.

The British Medical Association (BMA) has called for the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) to extend its private healthcare market review to include insurers' fee schedules.

Cancer charities have slammed the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (Nice) decision to reject a drug that prolongs the life of prostate cancer suffers for being too expensive.

Workplace stress has reached a four-year high with British workers being the most stressed compared to colleagues in some of the world's biggest economies, a new report has found.