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The introduction of inclisiran on the NHS has been approved, providing the potential to save up to 30,000 lives over the next 10 years.
A new campaign has been launched to encourage older people to access treatment for mental health conditions.
The NHS is missing out on tens of millions of pounds from housing developers because councils are failing to ask for the funds.
The NHS is spending millions encouraging patients to give feedback but the information gained is not being used effectively to improve services.
Heart and circulatory disease deaths attributed to particulate matter air pollution could exceed 160,000 over the next decade in the UK.
More than one million people fail to turn up to appointments at GP surgeries every month, at a cost of more than £200 million a year.
Over 100,000 patients have had appointments with expert pharmacists in the last 10 weeks, relieving pressure on GPs and A&E departments.
UCL warns that the UK will fall even further behind other wealthy nations for lung cancer survival rates without major investment.
Female GPs earn an average of £40,000 a year less than their male colleagues – one of the worst gender pay gaps for any profession.
A survey of mental health care professionals has laid bare the terrible impact of a shortage of mental health staff in the face of rising demand.
The Care Quality Commission has rated Barking, Havering and Redbridge University Hospitals NHS Trust as Requires Improvement.
A quarter of children and young people referred to mental health services in England last year were not accepted for treatment.
A GMC survey has sound that SAS and LE doctors have been bullied, undermined or harassed at work in the last year.
Growing pressures at hospitals across the NHS over the last month have led to long delays for patients seeking emergency care.
Patients are going blind because of long waits to see eye doctors, with inadequate capacity within hospital eye services blamed.
New research has claimed that almost half of women in Britain have poor sexual health.
The Royal College of GPs has warned that family doctors are under intense pressure and general practice is running on empty.
New figures show that more than 1,000 sexual assaults have been reported on mixed-sex NHS mental health wards in the last three years.
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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
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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