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The north of England deserves a greater portion of NHS funding to help it close the health gap between the region and the south, argues new report.
NHS England is urging people aged 65 and over to take advantage of the NHS’s biggest ever flu vaccination programme.
IT experts will come together at the first meeting of the Healthtech Advisory Board to help transform technology in the NHS.
New research has found that noise in hospitals is a worsening problem, with levels regularly exceeding international recommendations.
Health staff should start checking people’s blood pressure at gyms and football stadiums in a bid to cut deaths from heart attacks and strokes.
The NHS should look at the reward of senior leadership roles if it wants to encourage more doctors into leadership positions.
The NHS long-term plan to bring about ‘breakthrough’ in the development of local health and care systems, says new report.
The shortlists for the 22 categories of the 2018 Health Business Awards have been announced.
NHS Digital and the LGA have awarded funding to nine social care digitisation projects to create social care of the future.
Professor Sir Mike Richards is set to lead a major overhaul of national cancer screening programmes.
An increase in NHS staff shortages from over 100,000 to almost 250,000 by 2030, presenting a major risk to the NHS long term plan.
A new report from the Medical Technology Group warns that the NHS is in danger of missing an opportunity to harness the power of technology.
Over 40,000 women in England have not received information regarding cervical cancer screening after a failure to send out letters by the NHS.
Kettering General Hospital has launched a £2.4 million refurbishment programme to improve care for A&E patients.
A Pets in Hospital initiative has been launched across elderly care wards at Birmingham's Queen Elizabeth Hospital to enhance patient recovery.
NHS England announces that wearable glucose monitors will be made available to tens of thousands more people with type 1 diabetes from April 2019.
A no-deal Brexit would deliver a ‘cost shock’ to the NHS, likely to be in the region of £2.3 billion in extra annual costs by the end of 2019-20.
The first specialist wound research centre has been officially opened at Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
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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