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21/09/2016 - 09:31
Gloucestershire Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has taken out an emergency loan of £20 million to cover its £11 million deficit.
21/09/2016 - 09:20
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) has branded the NHS as ‘underfunded, underdoctored and overstretched’ in a new report.
20/09/2016 - 15:52
According to new research my the Royal Voluntary Service, older people supported after a stay in hospital are less likely to be readmitted and are more likely to report an improved quality of life.
20/09/2016 - 10:50
Public Health England has released a statement urging school leavers to get vaccinated against meningococcal disease (MedW), after figures showed less than a fifth of young people had received the vaccination so far.
20/09/2016 - 10:22
According to a report by the BBC, there have been over 2,000 alleged sex offences in adult care, nursing and residential homes reported to the police service over the last three years.
20/09/2016 - 09:59
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has forecasted that a GP deficit in the UK will happen by 2020.
20/09/2016 - 09:42
Sir Malcom Grant, chairman of NHS England, has said, in an interview with the Times, that NHS doctors are to be made to declare their income from private work, under plans to boost transparency in the sector.
20/09/2016 - 09:25
According to a study published in the journal Preventative Medicine, outdoor exercise delivers an estimated £2.2 billion of health benefits to adults in England annually.
20/09/2016 - 08:46
Smoking rates in England have fallen to the lowest on record, with the availability of e-cigarettes a likely reason for the drop.
19/09/2016 - 11:54
The group Justice for Health is mounting a legal challenge to take the junior doctor dispute to the High Court, in an attempt to stop the government imposing the new contract.
19/09/2016 - 10:12
Lib Dem health spokesperson Norman Lamb has announced plans to set up a ‘New Beveridge Group’ of health experts to consider the case for a dedicated tax.
19/09/2016 - 09:55
The British Lung Foundation has said it will invest 25 per cent of its research budget into Idiopathic Pulmonary Fibrosis (IPF), claiming the incurable condition was currently ‘severely underfunded’.
19/09/2016 - 09:34
The Local Government Association (LGA) has has called on the government to legally compel food manufacturers to include ‘traffic light’ nutrition labels on packages.
19/09/2016 - 09:21
According to figures obtained by BBC Radio 5 live, the number of obese people being rescued by the fire service because they are too large to move on their own has increased by over a third since 2013.
16/09/2016 - 11:32
Patients in Wales are being urged to take more control of decisions about the care and treatments they receive, as part of a new medical movement.
16/09/2016 - 10:30
A study published has emphasised that hundreds more cervical cancer patients could be saved if all those eligible went for screening.
16/09/2016 - 10:16
The NHS has made savings of more than £5 million by taking a variety of sustainable measures, according to a new report from the NHS Sustainability
16/09/2016 - 09:58
An increasing rise in waits for care services is putting extra pressure on the NHS in England, hospital bosses have warned.
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