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Dr Karen Kirkham has been appointed to help spread NHS innovations which integrate health and social care throughout England.
NHS England has accepted the advice of a new review into the safety of mesh operations and is placing an immediate curb on the treatment.
The Department of Health and Social Care is launching a £10 million research competition to fund innovations to tackle AMR in humans.
Having secured £20 billion in NHS investment and become the longest serving Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt has been promoted to Foreign Secretary.
The RCN has warned that the digital transformation of health care will remain a pipe-dream unless nurses are involved more.
The RCGP has warned that the GP workforce crisis is being worsened by inequity in the way GP undergraduate training placements are funded.
The NHS has announced plans to provide a host of new treatments that will now be routinely available for thousands of patients on the NHS.
A Pulse survey has revealed that GP vacancy rates are at the highest level ever recorded, with over 15 per cent of GP positions currently empty.
NHS Digital has revealed that the NHS Apps Library has reached 70 apps in honour of the NHS birthday.
Welsh Health Secretary Vaughan Gething has announced a new pay offer to NHS Wales’ staff.
A £36.3 million investment will see 256 state-of-the-art ambulances added to the current NHS fleet across the country this winter.
UCL has claimed that women who are at lower risk of breast cancer would be better off not being invited for NHS screening.
Simon Stevens has marked the health service’s 70th anniversary by sending a message of ‘heartfelt thanks’ to staff.
A new report has urged for faster progress towards a health service that centres on the needs of individuals and delivers value to the taxpayer.
The Mental Capacity (Amendment) Bill seeks to protect the rights of people who do not have the mental capacity to make decisions about their care.
150,000 patients in England have been involved in a data breach that the NHS is blaming on a coding error.
Paramedics will be given body cameras in a bid to reduce cases of physical and verbal abuse against NHS employees.
NHS England and the Department of Health and Social Care have launched an £8 million TV advertising campaign to recruit thousands of nurses.
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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