NHS gets new tzar to improve trauma and orthopaedics services

The Department of Health has announced the appointment of a new 'trauma tsar'. Nursing Times revealed in October that the government was to create the post.

Smoking ban cuts heart attacks

The smoking ban has caused heart attack rates to fall more quickly than expected, a Department of Health study has revealed.

Patients to have choice of where to die - Nursing Times

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'Design Bugs Out' project aims to tackle hospital infections

Prototypes of innovative new designs for existing hospital furniture and equipment, aimed at helping the fight against MRSA and other healthcare-associated infections (HCAIs), will be unveiled today by the Design Council

Cancer sufferers' partners face mental health risk

Men are more than a third more likely to develop mental health problems so serious that they require hospital treatment if their partners have breast cancer, research has suggested.