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NHS Providers has warned that there is a real risk of the health service being overwhelmed in a winter coronavirus second surge.
Millions of people shielding from coronavirus will be advised they can spend more time outside their homes from Monday 6 July.
Health Education England has announced plans to provide greater flexibility to trainees by extending its OOPP to include all specialties.
A new saliva coronavirus test that lets people collect their own sample at home by spitting into a pot is being trialled in the UK.
Sir Simon Stevens has marked Windrush Day 2020 by committing the NHS to drive further improvements in race equality across the health service.
The RCN has outlined eight key priorities for safely rebuilding health and social care services, emphasising the need for comprehensive mental health support.
The CQC's Professor Ted Baker has warned that patient safety is at risk if the NHS winter crisis is worsened by coronavirus.
New research has suggested that as much as 88 per cent of the British public can’t accurately identify the symptoms of common cancers.
The government has announced the next phase of development in building an app that supports the end-to-end NHS Test and Trace service.
An NHS scheme, which has seen tens of thousands of people get a face-to-face appointment with a local pharmacist, is accelerating.
Matt Hancock and NHS bosses want to finalise a deal to to treat NHS patients in private hospitals and tackle its spiralling backlog.
The mobile phone contact-tracing app will not be ready before the winter and is not a priority for the government at the moment, says minister.
The Labour Party is calling for routine testing of all staff in the NHS and social care sectors to help minimise transmission of coronavirus.
A scheme to provide new antibiotics to NHS patients by offering to pay pharmaceutical companies upfront for their work will start this week.
Jo's Cervical Cancer Trust has warned that health services will come under ‘huge pressure’ to work through backlogs of missed smear tests.
Pooling hospital waiting lists, strictly segregating patients and reconfiguring departments could be required to restart routine NHS activity.
The BMA has called for the recommendations of a report into the impact of coronavirus on the BAME community to be implemented immediately.
Derek Alderson, president of the Royal College of Surgeons, has said that NHS staff must be routinely tested for coronavirus up to twice a week.
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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