High turnover in departments like A&E can undermine even the best efforts to train staff in important care skills like safeguarding. Jessica Bradley explores how NHS services can make this vital training stick and spread good practice in protecting our most vulnerable patients.

With the half-term break coming up, are you already worrying about an email avalanche when you get back to work? Follow these tips from workplace culture expert Sophie Bryant to cut your inbox down to size and save your attention for what really matters.

NHS maternity services have been subjected to a steady stream of inquiries for more than a decade—including two this summer—but the same failings keep coming to light. Is maternity uniquely hard to manage or does the crisis point to wider defects in hospital services? Alison Moore reports.

The new Plaid Cymru government promised a fresh start for the NHS in Wales and ministers have hit the ground running. But setbacks on waiting lists and funding have made a tough gig even tougher, and a radical rethink of the health and care system more urgent. Craig Ryan reports.