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NHS England staff will get rapid access to expanded mental health services tas part of efforts to deal with the second wave of coronavirus.
Over the next three years, NHS Property Services will deliver over 100 key projects that will make essential improvements to the healthcare estate.
A new trial of rapid, mass coronavirus testing has begun in hospitals and will soon be rolled out to schools, universities and care homes.
A new report by a number of medical bodies has revealed a significant shortage of consultants in hospitals across England.
NHSBT has announced that it is opening 14 more blood plasma donation centres to urgently collect plasma for coronavirus treatment trials.
A leaked NHS document shows that Greater Manchester is set to run out of beds to treat people left seriously ill by coronavirus.
The police are being called to deal with increasing numbers of incidents involving people suffering from mental health crises.
The number of hospital admissions for eating disorders is rising at a faster rate among people from ethnic minorities in England.
The UK Space Agency has backed a healthcare drone start-up founded by NHS staff, to help in the response to coronavirus.
New laws will allow more healthcare workers to administer flu and potential coronavirus vaccines safely to the public.
Professor Graham Medley has warned that England will be ‘very close’ to the peak of the pandemic in April ‘within two or three weeks’.
The CQC has warned that an under pressure social care sector is ‘fragile’ heading into a second wave of coronavirus infections.
Patients in north-east London are having to wait up to 21 weeks for a routine blood test on the NHS.
The BMA is joining health and care unions in demanding that international staff have their visas automatically renewed free of charge.
Leaving the EU’s single market at the end of this year without a deal could impede our ability to combat second wave.
There have been almost 800 excess deaths in those dying below the age of 65 from heart and circulatory diseases since the pandemic began.
Ahead of a surge in virus cases, a number of NHS trusts stood down their in-house coronavirus testing for staff in the summer.
Analysis has found a disconnect between the way NHS services have developed and the changing health needs of the population.
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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