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01/03/2017 - 15:58
Shifting the balance of care: great expectations, published by the Nuffield Trust has highlighted that schemes that deliver healthcare closer to home are often better for patients but largely fail to save the NHS money.
01/03/2017 - 15:28
Skills for Health, Health Education England (HEE) and Skills for Care have announced a new End of Life Care Core Skills Education and Training Framework, with the aim of providing tailored, high-quality care and support to patients with advanced incurable illness and their families.
01/03/2017 - 11:48
Research conducted by Imperial College and published in the Lancet has suggested that early warning signs were missed in one in six heart attack deaths in England.
01/03/2017 - 11:14
Research published in Biophysical Journal has indicated that tumour cells that stick less to surrounding cells are more likely to migrate and spread to other parts of the body.
01/03/2017 - 10:50
According to a survey by YouGov for the Prince’s Trust, 24 per cent of young people have said they would not confide in someone if they were experiencing a mental health problem, with many fearing that it could affect their job prospects.
01/03/2017 - 10:17
Research published in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute has showed that looking at certain genes within nose cells via a nose swab could indicate the damage caused to cells in the lung by smoking.
01/03/2017 - 09:34
The General Medical Council (GMC) has warned that a survey has found that 1,280 out of 2,106 (60 per cent) European Economic Area (EEA) doctors are considering leaving the UK.
28/02/2017 - 14:40
The NHS European Office has claimed that the government must act now to protect patients from a Brexit backward-step on rare diseases.
28/02/2017 - 14:25
More patients are being admitted to hospital for drug-related mental health issues or poisoning than at any time in the past 10 years.
28/02/2017 - 11:15
The World Health Organization has drawn up a list of the drug-resistant bacteria that pose the biggest threat to human health.
28/02/2017 - 11:00
The levy on sugary drinks will provide £415 million, which will be allocated to schools to help with facilities for mental health.
28/02/2017 - 10:10
Without better financial planning and reforms, hospitals could join prisons and social care in a cycle of ‘crisis, cash, repeat’.
28/02/2017 - 09:48
Research suggests that vulnerable patients risk being exposed to multi-drug resistant bacteria, which are to be living in hospital sink drainpipes.
28/02/2017 - 09:31
A study has suggested that taking a blood test every four months could help women at high-risk of ovarian cancer find tumours early.
27/02/2017 - 15:47
The British Medical Association has warned that healthcare and medical research are being jeopardised by the uncertainty around the UK’s exit from the EU.
27/02/2017 - 15:29
NHS England has revealed that 500,000 NHS documents have been mistakenly put in storage instead of being sent to GPs or filed in patients’ records, after an administrative mix-up.
27/02/2017 - 12:26
Analysis conducted by the University of East London, and reported by the BBC, has revealed the locations of ‘hotspots’ of schizophrenia and other psychotic illnesses in England, using data showing the amount of medication prescribed by GPs.
27/02/2017 - 12:06
The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has criticised a dispute between Prime Minister Theresa May and NHS England boss Simon Stevens over finances, in its latest report on tackling NHS finance challenges.
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