Specialist neonatal transport services are essential parts of care provision for sick and premature babies. But, according to a report from the charity Bliss, such transfers are too often ‘understaffed, under-resourced and part time’

Nurses and other NHS staff who raise concerns about safety or the quality of patient care are promised full protection under a new national whistleblowing policy

Half of the one million children in the UK with asthma will have an asthma attack every year, with about 25,000 requiring hospital admission. This article looks at how initiatives such as creating networks of GP practices and placing hospital specialists in the community could improve the care of children with asthma.

The annual NHS staff survey is a chance to discover how front line staff feel about their working lives

Transforming care has become a buzz phrase in the health service. Since NHS England’s Five-Year Forward View was published in autumn 2014 a great deal of interest has been expressed in changing services to improve care and save money

Caring for older people in emergency departments is one of the biggest challenges facing hospitals, not only because of the number of patients involved, but also because of the wide range of long-term conditions they have

The starting gun has been fired. After 18 months of work, Lord Carter’s roadmap for hospitals to achieve £5 billion a year of spending cuts has been published

Asthma has become so common in the UK that there are, on average, at least two children with the condition in every classroom. Moreover, the familiarity of the condition may have bred complacency. The Royal College of Physicians (2014) National Review of Asthma Deaths warned that not enough was being done to reduce unnecessary admissions and deaths. The findings of the report were shocking, but perhaps unsurprising