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A Leeds GP is urging more doctors to make the time to talk to their patients about the benefits of physical activity.
A recent survey has suggested that NHS staff are uncomfortable with multinational ‘big tech’ companies analysing anonymised patient data.
Staff, patients and visitors to Lincolnshire hospitals will no longer be able to smoke on hospital grounds next year.
The number of hospital beds has fallen to its lowest level ever, despite the head of the NHS warning that bed closures have gone too far.
Ruth May, the Chief Nursing Officer for England is spearheading a drive urging NHS staff to get vaccinated against seasonal flu.
The review has found that for most people, the balance of benefits and possible side effects of the yellow fever vaccine remains overwhelmingly favourable.
Primary school clinics will be rescheduled as soon as possible and children in high risk groups are asked to visit their GP if their school session has been delayed.
Labour says that the scrapping of the NHS bursary in 2016 meant students were faced with £9,000 a year in tuition fees.
More than 10,000 EU nationals have left the NHS since the Brexit referendum in 2016, including almost 5,000 nurses.
Doctors have supported a proposal to reduce visits to patients' homes, saying they 'no longer have the capacity' to offer them.
The Conservatives have promised to spend more than £1.6 billion on dementia research, if elected on 12 December.
Labour’s election manifesto outlines plans for the average public service worker to benefit from a pay rise in April 2020.
An independent report into maternity safety in the NHS has been blocked from publication until after the General Election.
A digital sepsis alert system has helped create shorter hospital stays and increased odds of receiving timely antibiotics.
The Conservatives are pledging an extra £1 billion per year for social care in England over the next five years.
Five-year survival rates for low-grade glioma patients after surgery had increased from 82 per cent in 2006 to 100 per cent in 2017.
New polling has claimed that the NHS has overtaken Brexit as the most important electoral issue for adults in the UK.
NHS Blood and Transplant has signed a deal with BT to provide a technology and communications solution for England’s NHS blood donor network.
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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
Adveco, the commercial hot water specialist, announces the launch of live metering of domestic ho
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