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A group of MPs is urging doctors to offer blood tests to people with one or more potential symptom of blood cancer.
Calls for cuts to NHS’s Continuing Healthcare funding packages could put patient safety at risk, the Commons public accounts committee has warned.
One in 10 nurses leave the NHS in England each year, new figures reveal.
Rising A&E attendance rates are driven by patients’ long term health conditions, and are not related to lack of GP provision.
A ‘revolution’ in the way health and social care is delivered in Wales is urgently needed to prevent further decline of services.
Kings Fund reveals that physical health services are still receiving larger budgets, five years after the government promised ‘parity of esteem’.
Undergraduate medical students are being urged to help in hospitals in order to relieve pressure on the NHS.
Childbirth services at a North East hospital are to resume following a suspension due to staff shortages.
The heads of 12 health unions have joined forces to make a plea to the Health Secretary to give the NHS an emergency funding boost.
The CQC has rated a north London mental health and community trust as ‘requires improvement’ overall following an inspection.
More and more European Union-trained ambulance staff are quitting the NHS, raising fears of a Brexit drain from the service.
New figures show that there were almost 43,000 hospital operations to remove teeth in teenagers and children last year alone - 170 a day.
Humber NHS Foundation Trust has improved its overall CQC rating from ‘requires improvement’ to ‘good’ in less than 16 months.
Welsh hospitals face being under the highest state of pressure for almost a third of a year, the Conservatives have said.
The Chief Inspector of Hospitals has found a significant improvement in the quality of services for patients during an inspection of the Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust.
The Chief Medical Officer has written a letter to NHS staff urging them to get vaccinated as soon as possible to reduce the spread of flu.
Public health England statistics have shown that seasonal flu levels have continued to increase in the last week across the UK.
Nine of the 10 ambulance services in England have declared the second-highest level of alert in response to the NHS winter crisis.
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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