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Hospitals in England, Wales and Northern Ireland have not hit key targets for cancer, A&E and planned operations for 18 months.
The Royal Derby Hospital’s accident and emergency team has been named ‘Emergency Department Clinical Team of the Year’ by the RCEM.
The latest Care Quality Commission’s (CQC) A&E patient experience survey has shown great improvement since the last carried out two years ago.
The CQC's national 2016 A&E patient survey has shown significant improvements for the A&E departments in both the CIC and WCH for the second year in a row.
An innovative nursing app called Care Clox has been shortlisted for a third national award.
NHS North Cumbria CCG has secured £755,000 to support the international recruitment of 25 GPs to west, north and east Cumbria.
Bodies representing health, travel and transport organisations and interest groups in South Tyneside and Sunderland have agreed to work together.
The number of women having a home birth has fallen to a 15-year low, raising concern that some are being denied due to a shortage of midwives.
The NHS medical correspondence scandal has deepened with the revelation that a further 162,000 documents went missing.
Under new NHS guidelines, health professionals in England are to be told to ask patients aged 16 or over about their sexual orientation.
A ‘worst case scenario’ Brexit where healthcare arrangements end between the UK and the EU could cost the NHS up to £500 million a year.
Supersized chocolate bars and sweet ‘grab bags’ are to be banned from hospital shops, canteens and vending machines, says NHS England.
Hundreds of patients are to have access to a head and neck cancer drug after a new deal, NICE says.
Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt is considering the idea of stopping walk-in patients from attending hospital emergency departments.
Following ‘disappointing’ staff take-up rates, NHS leaders are writing to all 1.4 million staff to say they must have the winter flu jab.
An NHS Confederation poll of over 130 senior leaders has found that over 90 per cent are ‘concerned’ about their ability to cope this winter.
Norfolk and Suffolk NHS Foundation Trust has been placed back in special measures.
New King’s Fund analysis has revealed that the number of nurses employed by the NHS has fallen for the first time since April 2013.
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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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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