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Thousands more people with diabetes will soon have access to life changing technology to help manage their condition on the NHS.
The Royal College of Midwives has warned that NHS trusts do not have enough staff to operate a safe service.
A project trialling digital technology with disadvantaged communities has found that tackling the ‘digital divide’ is crucial to reducing health inequalities.
The BMA has reported that thousands of acutely ill mental health patients are still being sent miles from where they live for treatment.
Labour has called for legislation that would include financial and criminal penalties for companies that fail to act to ‘stamp out dangerous anti-vaccine content’.
The NHS is set to launch a network of more than 40 ‘long COVID’ specialist clinics within weeks.
NHS Digital has completed the largest known public sector data network transition programme, saving the NHS an estimated £75 million a year.
NHS Providers has urged Chancellor Rishi Sunak to give the health service what it needs to deal with the costs of coronavirus.
New data shows that the number of people waiting over a year for hospital treatment in England has hit its highest levels since 2008.
Two million people have now been reached by the service, including those who tested positive and their contacts.
Justin Madders has urged Matt Hancock to make the families of deceased NHS and social care workers aware of the Life Assurance Scheme.
The NHS is launching a renewed recruitment drive to capitalise on the ‘Nightingale effect’ as the health services contends with coronavirus.
A new consultation has been launched on proposals to ban online adverts for foods high in fat, sugar and salt in the UK.
There were 4.7 million fewer people referred for routine hospital care between January and August 2020 compared to 2019.
GP services will be cut back well into 2021 so family doctors can immunise millions of people against coronavirus at new seven-day-a-week clinics.
Health Secretary Matt Hancock has said that the NHS is ready to start providing the new coronavirus vaccine ‘as fast as safely possible’.
Health unions across the UK have written to the Prime Minister calling for a pay rise for all NHS staff before Christmas.
Up to 64 additional medical speciality training posts are being created as part of the Scottish Government response to coronavirus.
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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