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The Christie NHS Foundation Trust has launched a new mobile phone app for patients and visitors.
A new x-ray machine to help breast cancer patients has been unveiled at Blackpool Victoria Hospital.
The first specialist dementia Admiral Nurse in Essex has been appointed at Basildon and Thurrock University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust.
Airedale NHS Foundation Trust Board has decided to establish a separate company to run its estates, facilities and procurement services.
The Acute Pain Service has updated its pain relief machines in surgical wards at Southend University Hospital.
Under an Airbnb-type scheme the NHS is piloting, members of the public could be paid for renting their spare rooms to patients.
The Royal Devon and Exeter NHS Trust is offering a new day case surgical treatment in its network of community hospitals.
The Imperial College Academic Health Science Centre has been awarded £1.3 million to develop a National Institute for Health Research London In-Vitro Diagnostics Co-operative.
Liver health care across Dorset is to be revolutionised thanks to the arrival of a new charity-funded portable liver scanner at the Royal Bournemouth Hospital.
Patients with cystic fibrosis could avoid having to travel to clinics if health professionals could monitor them using phone or video messaging.
The neonatal service at Poole Hospital has been recognised with a national award.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is marching towards becoming ’smokefree’ from the end of March next year.
An expansion of the palliative care service at NNUH has increased the number of patients who can be referred to the team and ensures the highest standards of care.
Liverpool Women’s Hospital is the first Trust outside of London to offer Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) (reflex DNA) through the NHS.
GWH's Special Care Baby Unit is one of the first in the region to use a new app which allows nurses to send photographs and updates of a baby’s progress to their parents.
Essex Partnership University NHS Foundation Trust has launched its new Perinatal Mental Health Service.
Ashford and St. Peter’s Hospitals has introduced a new ‘gold standard’ prostate biopsy procedure to provide more accurate detection of prostate cancer in men.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has appointed its first Chief Clinical Information Officer.
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