A joint report by the Scientific Advisory Committee on Nutrition and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health has recommended adopting World Health Organisation child growth standards in the UK.
The standards are based exclusively on breastfed infants and encourage breastfeeding for the first six months of a baby's life.
The number of medical students need to double in the next decade to avoid “an absolute disaster”, the new head of the Royal College of Physicians has told HSJ.
The variation in the rates of cancers diagnosed in A E departments across England is narrowing according to the latest data but some areas still have rates nearly double other parts of the country.
The coming winter is likely to be even more difficult than the last due to system wide demand/capacity gap, but the NHS long term plan offers a ray of hope to enable service transformation, says Claire Helm
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Financial penalties are being lifted from high-profile standards including cancer and elective waiting times, so far without attracting much attention. How is this happening? And will it work, asks Rob Findlay
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