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The modern hospice movement has improved the quality of palliative care greatly over the past 50 years and has helped with the research and education in its field. It has achieved this by [...]

Self Injury Awareness Day (SIAD) falls on every 1st of March and is an international event that is recognised across the world. What is the aim of Self Injury Awareness Day? Self Injury Awareness [...]

As the month of February draws to a close, so does National Heart Month and in the final week, we’ll be looking at cholesterol, which is one of the major causes of heart disease. What is [...]

Ashtons provides a wide range of training courses, including e-learning and clinical training seminars. You can now choose from 12 clinical training seminars including: Medicines management [...]

As you may be aware, February is National Heart Month and we’ll be doing a blog piece every week looking at all matters of the heart. This week we’ll be looking at managing stress and what it has [...]

The method for prescribing and administering medication in hospitals has largely stayed the same for the last 40 years with the use of paper prescription charts. However, the number and [...]

We believe that providing good communication is key to enhancing customer satisfaction. Customers have told us that they value having a single dedicated phone line and so we provide this to make [...]

Adults sleep an average of seven to eight hours a day, but the need for sleep varies from person to person and usually diminishes with age. Insomnia is a very common condition, with a one-year [...]

It is now 26 years since the then Health Secretary, Virginia Bottomley, successfully argued in favour of providing hospices with a prescribing budget, instead of using NHS prescriptions to obtain [...]

The UK Medicines Information service (UKMi) has produced a question & answer summary on the causes and symptoms of serotonin syndrome. Clinical staff should be aware of the symptoms, as early [...]