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Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust had to turn patients away from its A&E units 13 times in one week, including four times in one day.
Grantham & District Hospital A&E Emergency Care Centre would not be safe to reopen overnight, an NHS report has recommended.
A struggling children’s services organisation has spent £7.7 million on interim agency staff in a year, it has been revealed.
A new report has found that two-thirds of COPD patients in Wales receive the flu jab - one of the most high-value treatments to stop exacerbations of the disease.
NICE’s updated advice says current evidence on the safety of the vaginal mesh shows there are serious, but well-recognised safety concerns.
NICE has said that children born preterm should be offered developmental check-ups to help identify any problems or disorders early on.
NHS Digital has published data that shows the levels of prescribing antipsychotic drugs to dementia patients for the first time.
The NHS needs to ‘future-proof’ its care workforce by improving working conditions, boosting training and retention and becoming a ‘model employer’ for staff, new report says.
The first primary care provider and third sector organisation have connected to the new Health and Social Care Network.
The NHS will become the first in the world to publish estimates of how many patients may have died because of failings in their care.
66 per cent of men met national aerobic activity guidelines in 2016 compared to 58 per cent of women, new figures have revealed.
A former heart surgeon has returned to Northern Lincolnshire and Goole NHS Foundation Trust to transform the way information systems in the hospitals work.
Lack of social care funding is turning wards into waiting rooms as new figures show dementia patients are delayed up to 10 times longer than those without the condition.
A team of researchers at the NIHR Leicester Biomedical Research Centre has been awarded €6.5 million from the Horizon 2020 European Commission Fund.
Cold weather combined with loneliness could be lethal in the coming months, NHS England’s chief nursing officer has warned.
The chief executive of NHS England has welcomed signs of progress in tackling discrimination among health service staff, but warns of ‘hard work’ still left to do.
The SMC has approved the use of three new medicines for use by NHS Scotland, including a new treatment for breast cancer.
Jim Mackey has claimed that NHS leaders were ‘bloody stupid’ to expect £4 billion of government investment in last month’s Budget.
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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