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This week, NHS Test and Trace returned 97.2 per cent of in-person test results the next day after the test was taken.
New Ucas data shows that a record number of students were accepted onto medicine courses last year amid the coronavirus pandemic.
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 in the UK have received their first dose of a coronavirus vaccine.
Firefighters in Hampshire are the latest group to join the NHS staff in helping deliver coronavirus vaccinations.
Military personnel are joining forces with North West Ambulance Service clinicians to support the response to some non-emergency patients.
NHS Supply Chain is helping hospital trusts across England to adopt innovative new digital solutions such as AI and business analytics.
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.
A survey has found that Black, Asian and other minority ethnicity doctors still don’t feel protected from coronavirus in the workplace.
Sir Simon Stevens has marked the one year anniversary of the first confirmed coronavirus patients being treated in the UK.
The NHS has now offered the coronavirus vaccine to residents at every eligible care home with older residents across England.
Record funding to support NHS Scotland through the pandemic has been delivered in the 2021-22 Scottish Budget.
The government urgently needs to deliver on its manifesto commitment to fix the failing social care sector, says Health for Care.
A survey from the Royal College of Psychiatrists has found that mental health hospitals in England are operating at capacity.
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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UK Building Regulations highlight toxic gas and smoke from layers of paint built up over multiple redecorations as a major cause of permanent ill health or death in a building fire.
Their concern rose with discovery the flame retardant paints most widely used paint along escape routes have been ones which to this day counter-productively use emission of heavy toxic gas to smother flames which rapidly spread along walls if layers of paint delaminate in a fire.
Northwich’s Victoria Infirmary (VIN) Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has enabled more patients
Adveco, the commercial hot water specialist, announces the launch of live metering of domestic ho
Sarah Greenslade, public affairs and communications officer at the British Parking Association looks at some of the problems and innovations in healthcare parking
It’s easy to assume that the comms team is there to handle press enquiries and the occasional social media storm – but the reality is that strategic communications can make a measurable impact across the entire organisation, from operational to financial, when done properly