Without more staff, the NHS plan will fail. GPs will have to pick up the pieces
Government long-term plans for the health service promise a lot, but success depends on having enough people to implement it
Schoolchildren to be offered sleep lessons after rise in disorders
Move follows concerns about ‘hidden health disaster’ of sleeplessness among young
The NHS 10-year plan: what we already know
Changes will include a mental health overhaul and advances in diabetes care
NHS to fund surgery on unborn babies with spina bifida
From April patients will be able to have prenatal procedure to repair foetus’s spine
GPs could prescribe bingo and dancing after English trial’s success
One practice prescribing activities saw 20% cut in hospital outpatient admissions
Why prescribing playlists for people with dementia is on the money
As a GP, I know that funding is key if social prescribing is to work, writes Ann Robinson
Too many baby deaths avoidable, report into NHS finds
Each Baby Counts project analyses cases of stillbirth, neonatal death and babies born with brain damage
Couples being denied IVF on NHS over man’s age or weight
Some CCGS in England face criticism for access criteria that is not in national guidelines
Breastfeeding rate declines in England as advice goes unheeded
Only four in 10 mothers still breastfeed babies of up to eight weeks despite health guidance
Why I share my breast milk with other mothers
With NHS milk banks often reserved for premature babies, parents are turning to informal networks. It’s time to make the milk-sharing system as efficient as that for blood donation