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NHS workforce data for August shows the number of doctors in the NHS in England rose to a record 121,726 last year.
Exeter's Nightingale Hospital will receive its first coronavirus patients, transferred from Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Foundation Trust.
People are consistently reporting poor experiences of NHS community mental health services with few positive results.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak has announced a £6.3 billion cash increase in NHS spending in 2021-22, compared to 2020-1.
The National Audit office has found that price rises for personal protective equipment earlier this year cost taxpayers about £10 billion.
Matt Hancock has announced a new drive to reduce unnecessary bureaucracy and locking in positive change seen during the pandemic.
A new system of volunteer reservists for the NHS in England, modelled on Armed Forces reservists, is being proposed through a new law in Parliament.
A poll of 1,715 members of the public shows that 82 per cent of those surveyed said they supported a pay rise for nursing staff this year.
More than £10 billion of additional funding is needed just to tackle the growing backlog in care left in the wake of coronavirus.
A new report has revealed how NHS facilities can implement small changes to better support communities’ health and well-being through social prescribing.
The Health Foundation has revealed the scale of funding increases needed to meet the demands of coronavirus and secure the nation’s health long term.
Student nurses are calling for paid contracts to be reinstated for those on placement in hospitals in the UK.
The government has been urged to protect staff working in rehabilitation services from redeployment as health and care services cope with coronavirus.
Doctors have warned that NHS intensive care units are so routinely understaffed patients are at risk of poor care.
Chancellor Rishi Sunak is expected to announced a £500 million package to support mental health services.
NHS Confederation has said that joint working across health and care should be embedded in law and encouraged through a new statutory duty.
The RCOA has warned that a million patient operations could be delayed because of widespread shortages of anaesthetists in the NHS.
NHS Providers says the national lockdown should end as planned next month only if it's clear the NHS can cope with the pressures of the pandemic.
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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
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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