Audit Scotland warns delayed discharges cost £440m a year and leave one in nine hospital beds occupied unnecessarily.

Dr. Jennifer Caputo-Seidler shares insights from her inaugural SHM Hill Day 2025 visit, which brought hospitalists together ...

If you or a loved one has a terminal illness, it may be time for hospice care, a type of palliative care that focuses on making you as comfortable as possible in your final phase of life.

When we think of healthcare, certain images come to mind: nurses at the bedside, doctors making diagnoses, or a surgeon in ...

Medicare Advantage SNF utilization grew to 47.6% in 2024, with shorter stays and higher occupancy, per Plante Moran's benchmarking report.

Medicare Part A is the hospital insurance component of original Medicare, the federal health insurance program designed for adults ages 65 and older and some younger people who have ...

The Maternal Care Bundle (MCB) sets best practice standards across 5 areas of clinical care, for implementation by NHS providers and commissioners across England. The aim is to reduce maternal ...

This toolkit supports integrated care boards (ICBs), their place-based partners, health and care providers to work with service users and professionals to improve the postnatal care experience and ...

The case framework explains how the new wage definition mandates that at least 50% of remuneration must qualify as wages. This directly impacts minimum wage compliance and statutory ...

Objectives Older adults can have difficulties understanding and recalling information prior to hospitalisation for elective treatment. Limited research exists regarding how older adults perceive the ...

Memory is the faculty by which the brain encodes, stores, and retrieves information. It is a record of experience that guides future action. Memory encompasses the facts and experiential details that ...