Nearly all in-person test results returned next day

This week, NHS Test and Trace returned 97.2 per cent of in-person test results the next day after the test was taken.

Record number of students accepted onto medicine courses

New Ucas data shows that a record number of students were accepted onto medicine courses last year amid the coronavirus pandemic.

techUK publishes Ten Point Plan for Healthtech

Technology trade association techUK has published its Ten Point Plan for Healthtech to accelerate the digitisation of the health and care sector.

More than 10 million people receive first vaccine dose

More than 10 million people in the UK have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.

Firefighters lend support in delivering vaccinations

Firefighters in Hampshire are the latest group to join the NHS staff in helping deliver coronavirus vaccinations.

Military lend support to NWAS coronavirus response

Military personnel are joining forces with North West Ambulance Service clinicians to support the response to some non-emergency patients.

NHS Supply Chain launches Medical IT framework

NHS Supply Chain is helping hospital trusts across England to adopt innovative new digital solutions such as AI and business analytics.

Largest ever enterprise email migration completed

NHS Digital has successfully moved 2.1 million NHSmail mailboxes over to Microsoft’s Exchange Online platform.

Valneva’s coronavirus vaccine is currently in phase I/II trials and will still need to meet the necessary safety and effectiveness standards before it is rolled out at the end of the year.

Additional testing is being made available in locations where the COVID-19 variant first identified in South Africa has been found, to help monitor and suppress it, while enabling a better understanding of the new variant.

All households will a receive a leaflet explaining the change in the law around organ and tissue donation in Scotland this February.

BAME doctors still don’t feel protected from coronavirus

A survey has found that Black, Asian and other minority ethnicity doctors still don’t feel protected from coronavirus in the workplace.

Stevens thanks staff after ‘year like no other’

Sir Simon Stevens has marked the one year anniversary of the first confirmed coronavirus patients being treated in the UK.

Coronavirus jab now offered at every eligible care home

The NHS has now offered the coronavirus vaccine to residents at every eligible care home with older residents across England.

Record funding delivered to support NHS Scotland

Record funding to support NHS Scotland through the pandemic has been delivered in the 2021-22 Scottish Budget.

Ministers must no longer delay promise of fixing social care

The government urgently needs to deliver on its manifesto commitment to fix the failing social care sector, says Health for Care.

Lack of beds leaving mental health patients without treatment

A survey from the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found that mental health hospitals in England are operating at capacity.

Health and care staff urged to get coronavirus vaccine

Leading health and social care professionals have joined forces to urge their frontline colleagues to get the first dose of the coronavirus vaccine over the coming weeks.

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