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Yorkshire Ambulance Service NHS Trust is to be the first ambulance service to introduce a dual-fuel non-emergency patient transport vehicle to its fleet.
The government has announced an extra £76 million a year over the next three years to build homes for those who need extra support.
Data collected by the CQC has shown that more than 200 patients killed themselves in mental health units between 2010 and 2016.
New research has claimed that vaping can damage vital immune system cells and can be just as harmful as smoking.
Public Health Minister Steve Brine says that bowel cancer screening in England should start 10 years earlier at age 50.
The Association of British HealthTech Industries has highlighted the significant contingency planning that is underway within the HealthTech sector
The Royal Papworth is to explore new opportunities for the digital transformation of a range of back and middle office functions.
NHS England previously said it would pay for ibrutinib only to treat patients who have relapsed within three years
The Welsh Assembly backed the legislation in June, which now passes into law
NHS England’s GP Patient Survey 2018 shows eight out of ten patients rating their overall experience of their GP surgery as good.
Microsoft is partnering with the British Heart Foundation (BHF), the NHS and New Signature in order to map all the defibrillators in the UK.
Fall is ‘most likely’ due to increased use of new antiviral medications now available
Marketing authorisation holders and Qualified Persons for Pharmacovigilance (QPPVs) will be allowed to remain in the UK and will be allowed access to EU markets.
A total of 1,311 GP practices across the capital now use the Electronic Prescription Service, which sends patients’ prescription directly from their doctor’s surgery to their pharmacist.
The new opt-out system will presume adults to be organ donors unless they have specifically recorded their decision not to be.
The Dr Foster research unit at Imperial College has found that sepsis deaths have risen by more than a third in England's hospitals in two years.
The Royal College of Midwives is supporting the universal provision of baby boxes in the UK, which could reduce the risks associated with unsafe co-sleeping.
The new NHS ten year plan must break from previous initiatives and place community services at the front and centre of improving care for the public.
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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