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Military support to the National Testing Programme will be handed over as the government pursues a long-term plan to deliver coronavirus tests.
Close to 2,500 patients were discharged from mental health units across England at the beginning of the coronavirus lockdown.
The government is to announce that GPs will be encouraged to prescribe cycling as a way for patients to lose weight.
Only 19 families of NHS and social care workers who died from coronavirus have been approved for the government's compensation payment.
The NHS has launched a new scheme offering help towards the costs of caring for children or family members of doctors.
The BMA is backing calls for UK and EU Brexit negotiators to find compromises which will not jeopardise medical research.
The NHS is at risk of a slower and more fraught path to recovery than most due to its starting position going into the pandemic.
The BMA has welcomed the government’s flu vaccination programme, but stressed that people must be encouraged to be immunised.
The government has announced that providers will work to vaccinate more than 30 million people during this flu season.
A network of coronavirus-testing walk-in centres are to be set up to persuade more people to come forward for testing.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has called for additional investment to significantly improve mental health facilities.
The number of paramedics in England taking time off with mental health conditions has almost tripled over the last decade.
Eight directors of public health from the north-west of England have written to Boris Johnson calling for any anti-coronavirus obesity plan.
A new NHS service has been launched to help people across the UK sign up for information on the new Covid-19 vaccine trials.
A newly built £100 million intensive care unit has been closed after it failed fire safety checks.
Sir Paul Nurse has argued that all health and care staff should be routinely tested for coronavirus once or twice a week.
A new report details the long-term investment needed in nursing higher education in England to help address the shortages of nursing staff.
The UK will be living with coronavirus for many years to come and even a vaccine is unlikely to eliminate it for good.
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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