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MPs in Yorkshire, the Midlands and North East have been urged to vote against the government’s social care cap amendment.
The Five Eyes intelligence alliance has urged critical infrastructure organisations within the UK, including the NHS, to increase cyber security defences.
The NHS will be barred from using goods and services linked to slavery or human trafficking under a law to be introduced by the government.
An online service enabling people to look up their NHS number quickly and easily was used 4.6 million times in its first year.
The government should commit to a strategy to remove all asbestos from public and commercial buildings within 40 years, say MPs.
A range of recommendations to develop the mental health nursing workforce have been drawn up in a major review released by HEE.
NHS Shared Business Services has won a place on a major new national framework agreement for the provision of corporate services to NHS bodies.
Increasing numbers of Britons are paying for private medical treatment because of the record delays people are facing trying to access NHS care.
NHS England bosses have advised local health services that patients in waiting rooms across England are no longer required to socially distance.
Diabetes UK has warned that thousands of diabetes-sufferers’ lives are being put at risk due to a backlog in care caused by the pandemic.
Patients with Parkinson’s disease are being given life-changing smart watches that allow doctors to remotely assess their condition.
Hundreds of people have been diagnosed with lung cancer earlier through NHS mobile trucks, part of the NHS Targeted Lung Health Check Programme.
Volunteers could be responding to urgent 999 calls in London within weeks as the LAS attempts to further tackle mounting delays.
More than 11,000 people who joined the NHS Covid-19 vaccination programme have decided to stay on in the health service in other roles.
The MHRA has given regulatory approval to the Covid-19 vaccine developed by Valneva.
New figures indicate that dozens of NHS patients have waited more than three years for hospital care in England.
HEE has launched a new drive to improve people’s access to health care through better understanding of written and digital information.
Patients with acute mental health needs continue to be sent miles away from home because there isn’t a bed available locally.
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Northwich’s Victoria Infirmary (VIN) Community Diagnostic Centre (CDC) has enabled more patients
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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