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Patients could have quicker access to more cutting-edge treatments thanks to collaborations to fast-track the approval process.
New research has found that migrants who need NHS care are being denied treatment for an average of 37 weeks.
Government advisors have said that shielding is not being reintroduced in England, despire rising coronavirus cases.
Researchers are calling on more people from Black, Asian and minority ethnic backgrounds and the over 65s to volunteer for clinical studies.
NHS Nightingale hospitals in Manchester, Sunderland and Harrogate are being asked to get ready to take patients.
Clearer additional coronavirus measures are needed to avoid communities suffering the paralysing and economic impact of local lockdowns.
Health and social care staff and volunteers across the UK have been celebrated in the 2020 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Legal action has been launched over the government’s failure to disclose details of its spending on contracts related to the coronavirus pandemic.
More than £400 million will be committed over the next four years to eradicate dormitory accommodation from mental health facilities.
Guidance has been issued to GPs setting out how they can order more flu vaccines this flu season.
Famous faces are backing a major new campaign urging anyone concerned about cancer to get checked and to keep routine appointments.
A payroll platform that enables NHS employees to access their pay as they earn is being rolled out free of charge to all NHS organisations.
An alliance of London university labs will add capacity for tens of thousands more coronavirus tests over the coming months.
Thousands of patients are going without vital NHS treatment as hospitals are still struggling to get services back to normal.
Rough sleepers face an increasing dilemma between staying outside or squeezing into crowded shelters where coronavirus hygiene will be limited.
Two Select Committees have launched a joint inquiry into lessons to be learned from the response to the coronavirus pandemic so far.
Sir Simon Stevens has announced that those suffering ‘long covid’ symptoms will be offered specialist help at clinics across England.
New figures highlight that an estimated 350,000 patients were forced to move to a new GP surgery over the past year due to closures.
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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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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