Campaigning and opinions

The Health Secretary today has announced the reconfiguration of South London Healthcare NHS Trust, following the report by the Trust Special Administrator.  

Commissioned by Brook and Family Planning Association (FPA), this new report Unprotected Nation looks at how NHS efficiency savings in contraception and sexual health services could cost the NHS more in the long term. 

New professional standards for cosmetic practice are published today (29 January) by the Royal College of Surgeons (RCS).

The Lancet Neurology has published research today suggesting that taking the anti-epileptic drug valproate during pregnancy affects the IQ of children up to the age of six.

Sands, the stillbirth and neonatal death charity, has launched a post mortem consent package developed to provide information and guidance about post mortems for health professionals seeking consent, and for bereaved parents whose baby has died before, during or shortly after birth.

This week marks Cervical Cancer Prevention Week, and is a European-wide initiative.

The Faculty of Sexual and Reproductive Healthcare (FSRH) and the Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) welcome the findings of the cross-party parliamentary report The Morning After: A Cross Party Inquiry into Unplanned Pregnancy.

The Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists (RCOG) welcomes Everyone counts: planning for patients 2013/14 .  This document sets out how patient-centred improvements will be made in the NHS, through joint-planning between the NHS Commissioning Board, Clinical Commissioning Groups, Health and Wellbeing Boards and other related agencies.  

Today the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) publishes new guidelines, Ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage: Diagnosis and initial management in early pregnancy of ectopic pregnancy and miscarriage.

Women in England and Northern Ireland receive their first invitation for cervical screening at the age of 25. In Scotland and Wales, however, they are currently first invited at the age of 20.