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The Department of Health has announced the successful applicants for stage 1 of the £50 million funding of capital projects to improve care environments for people with dementia.
First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government
Health Minister Anna Soubry discusses the importance of improving care and outcomes for people with respiratory disease as the introduction to the Better Value, Better Outcomes national respiratory learning event.
From today, people across England will be able to sign up for sessions to become a Dementia Friend.
Learn what it's like to live with dementia. Join the Prime Minister and become a Dementia Friend.
Healthcare professionals are being reminded of the importance of finger prick glucose testing for people living with type 1 diabetes.
The Alzheimer’s Society has released new data on the rates of dementia diagnosis in the UK.
New figures from the Alzheimer's Society show a wide variation in diagnosis rates in Britain.
The Winter edition of the personal health budgets newsletter, including an update on the pilot of personal health budgets in the NHS.
A campaign is launching today to encourage the public to adopt good respiratory and hand hygiene practices - to ‘Catch it. Bin it. Kill it.’…
Twenty one pioneering research projects to boost dementia diagnosis rates and trial ground breaking treatments have been selected to receive a share of £22million of Government funding, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt announced…
The Department of Health has made £22 million available to 21 pioneering research projects to boost dementia diagnosis rates and trial ground-breaking treatments.
The second annual report on ‘Improving outcomes: a strategy for cancer‘, published today, shows cancer survival rates are improving.
Thousands more patients are set to receive potentially life saving care as the Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt today unveiled the Government's blueprint for changes to the GP contract.
Letter from National Cancer Director, Mike Richards, to remind NHS colleagues of the Be Clear on Cancer campaigns.
The ‘Christmas to remember’ campaign was launched by actress Carey Mulligan and the Prime Minister at Downing Street this morning.
New campaign to help relatives spot and support loved ones with dementia over the festive season.
Revolutionary new cancer test could change the way cancer is diagnosed and treated.
100,000 people with long-term conditions to benefit from technology in 2013
Britain’s biggest ever project to challenge the way the public thinks about and acts on dementia A million people are needed to take part…
The Dementia Friends scheme is the country’s biggest ever project to change the way people think about dementia.
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