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The Royal College of Psychiatrists says that mental health trusts have less money to spend on patient care in real terms than they did in 2012.
The Royal College of Psychiatrists has claimed that a study has ‘finally puts to bed the controversy’ surrounding anti-depressants.
New NHS Improvement financial figures have shown that the health service has nearly 100,000 positions unfulfilled, representing one in 12 posts.
NHS management consultants are causing a service already under pressure to be less efficient rather than making things better.
A state-of-the-art ultra-high field MRI machine is set to transform clinical research at St Thomas’ Hospital, London.
The CQC has rated Aintree University Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as ‘requires improvement’ following a ‘deterioration in the quality of services’.
The Guardian claims that NHS Improvement has delayed publishing new information about the health service’s poor finances.
Professor Keith Willett has said that health and local government leaders must remake the NHS and local authority partnership.
SBRI Healthcare has revealed the companies to benefit from £8.7 million funding to help develop novel technologies aimed at future-proofing GP services.
The latest Hospital Standardised Mortality Ratios show that Scotland’s patient safety programme has cut hospital mortality by over 10 per cent.
Target Ovarian Cancer has said that only a third of women would see a doctor when they experience stomach bloating.
GPs were allocated just four per cent of the £20 million winter resilience funding given to NHS organisations this year.
NHS Digital has announced new plans to enable NHS staff to communicate with each other through better integrated systems.
NHS staff are warning that government investment into mental health services for children and young people is failing to reach frontline services.
Wayne Bartlett-Syree has warned that patients are at risk of harm because ambulances are stuck at A&E units and cannot respond quickly enough to 999 calls.
NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde has cut the waiting time for a first appointment from one year to an average of just six weeks.
Reports have suggested that hospital bosses in Sheffield have spent nearly £350,000 on translators in the NHS over the past year.
Researchers from the University of Warwick have taken initial steps towards what they claim could become a new blood and urine test for autism.
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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.
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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