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A number of NHS organisations are to implement new processes to simplify the NHS research set up process and cut delays.
North Bristol NHS Trust has launched a new maternity app to help expectant parents access necessary information through their pregnancy journey.
An Intergenerational Commission report argues that the struggling social care system could be ‘rescued’ with a funding boost of £2.3 billion.
LBC has revealed that the number of hospitals operating at the highest emergency alert level has nearly doubled in the last year.
NHS England says new and expectant mothers in England will be given better access to mental health care more quickly and easily by next year.
HIMSS has announced the appointment of Dr Charles Alessi and Bruce Steinberg with the aim of continuing the transformation of health through technology.
The BMA is to lead a project seeking to develop a vision for what an improved health and care system could look like.
The Care Quality Commission has announced that Ian Trenholm has been appointed as the organisation’s new chief executive.
University Hospital Southampton has revealed that infection rates have plummeted as a result of the hospital’s good hand hygiene education.
Approximately 450,000 were not sent invitations for a final test for breast screening between their 68th and 71st birthday since 2009.
As part of the NHS’s 70th birthday celebrations, health staff who have ‘gone over and above the call of duty’ will receive UK-wide recognition.
Labour has said that the Conservative Party’s controversial decision to refuse foreign doctors visas is directly damaging NHS patient care.
90 per cent of councils have cut spending on sexual health, alcohol misuse and weight management services.
Addenbrooke’s Hospital has announced that it has become the first in the UK to bring state-of-the-art liver technology into routine use.
Professor Don Berwick has said that the NHS is better placed to ‘truly integrate care’ than any other global health system.
NHS Supply Chain has reported that its £300 million cash-releasing target has been achieved five months ahead of plan.
Professor Tony Young led a delegation of leading doctors to witness demonstrations of space technology that could be adapted for use in the NHS.
Work is underway on a new energy centre at South Tyneside District Hospital that will enable the trust to reduce carbon emissions.
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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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