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Emergency care services in England are performing as badly in the summer as they have in previous winters.
NHS nursing vacancies will top 51,000 by end of the Brexit transition period in 2021, the equivalent of 45 hospitals’ worth of nurses.
An increasing number of patients are facing long waits for key NHS tests as UK hospitals struggle with staff shortages.
A new campaign is calling for the government to prioritise funding for nursing higher education in England.
New study claims that seven in every eight children given tonsillectomies were unlikely to benefit from the operation.
An NHS trust will stop providing chemotherapy at one of its hospitals because it has too few specialist cancer nurses to staff the unit.
New research finds that white doctors are more likely than black or minority ethnic medics to be promoted to consultant level.
The Health Secretary is urging the public to take greater responsibility for their own health to tackle the rising toll of obesity and cancer.
A new study has claimed that removing foreign objects from ears and noses costs NHS hospitals in England almost £3 million each year.
A neurology hotline for GPs in north west England has seen £100,000 a year reinvested back into the NHS.
A report by the British Medical Association has revealed that one in five NHS doctors were victims of bullying or harassment last year.
The Health Secretary has outlined new measures to protect NHS staff in an attempt to reduce the thousands of assaults that take place every year.
Despite confirmation of a budget increase in real terms next year, a think tank has warned that wider spending is set to fall.
A social media project has led to a 13 per cent increase in first time attendances for breast screening in Stoke-on-Trent over four years.
Chancellor Philip Hammond has delivered his 2018 Budget, confirming the extra £20.5 billion for the NHS over the next five years.
Leaders from health and social care have urged the Chancellor to tackle the substantial funding gap facing adult social care in his Budget.
A new opt-out system for organ donation has been approved by MPs in the Commons, meaning hundreds of lives could be saved each year.
A 18-month pilot which will see orthopaedic treatments being carried out away from a Plymouth Hospital has been questioned.
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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