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02/08/2016 - 12:00
NHS Bolton Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and Bolton NHS Foundation Trust are piloting a new scheme aimed at redirecting inappropriate accident and emergency attenders to a more appropriate point of care.
02/08/2016 - 09:38
A High Court judge has ruled that NHS England can fund a preventative drug that can be used to combat HIV, after health bosses previously argued the responsibility did not lie with the NHS.
01/08/2016 - 14:24
Figures obtained by The Times have shown that patients are being put at risk by a shortage of paramedics that has led to firefighters being sent to manage serious injuries, heart attacks and strokes.
01/08/2016 - 12:58
Figures uncovered by the Sunday People have shown the number children under the age of 14 being diagnosed with anorexia has more doubled in the last five years.
01/08/2016 - 10:26
A report by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation has found the effects of poverty to have cost the UK an average of £78 billion per year, with the NHS bearing the brunt of the costs.
01/08/2016 - 10:02
A report by Macmillan Cancer Support has shown that cancer patients are twice as likely to survive for at least a decade after being diagnosed, compared to the 1970s.
01/08/2016 - 09:31
NHS England has announced it has been working with Health Education England (HEE) to recruit English-speaking medical students in Europe in a bid to boost the number of successful applicants for GP training in England.
29/07/2016 - 10:36
A series of NHS England support packages will seek to address systemic staffing and financial pressures on doctors in England.
29/07/2016 - 10:22
A new £30 million General Practice Development Programme will help practices find ways to free up GPs’ time.
28/07/2016 - 11:38
A report published by the Picker Institute Europe has called for more support for staff in the maternity service to deliver ‘person-centred care’ to women who are giving birth.
28/07/2016 - 10:45
Public Health England (PHE) has published its annual hepatitis C report for 2016, showing deaths from the disease in the UK have fallen.
28/07/2016 - 10:23
A study published in the Lancet has found that an hour’s ‘brisk exercise’ each day can offset the risks of early death associated with working at a desk for more than eight hours a day.
28/07/2016 - 09:59
According to official figures published by Health Education England (HEE), around 83 per cent of GP training posts have been filled in England, the first time the number has increased in three years.
27/07/2016 - 10:25
Basic eye and smell tests could be used to identify dementia years before people experience memory symptoms, research has suggested.
27/07/2016 - 10:01
US researchers have suggested that late menopause may increase a woman's risk of developing type 2 diabetes.
27/07/2016 - 09:43
The BBC has discovered that spending on high-cost overtime has risen by more than a third in the past two years.
26/07/2016 - 10:39
The Advisory Committee on the Microbiological Safety of Food has recommended that pregnant women should no longer be told they cannot eat raw on lightly cooked eggs.
26/07/2016 - 10:18
A woman in Spain has given birth to a baby with microcephaly as a result of being invected with the Zika virus.
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