Training on ethics, communication and conflict management should be more widely available to healthcare staff – or even made compulsory – to help avoid distressing disputes about the care of critically ill babies and children, according to new guidance ..read more

Four more healthcare professionals have been arrested on suspicion of poisoning patients on a stroke unit in Blackpool ..read more

Hospital staff could in future be held legally accountable for “preventing and tackling” youth violence, under latest government plans ..read more