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Two trusts are now processing all of their hospital referral appointments electronically via the NHS e-Referral Service.
As NHS leaders prepare for a pressurised winter period, PHE has highlighted the importance of being vaccinated against the flu.
Skin preparation, wound hygiene and sharing data on outcomes are more important than adherence to dress codes for reducing infections following surgery.
A Plymouth Hospitals NHS Trust report has revealed how two junior doctors were left to care for more than 400 patients during a night shift.
King’s Fund think tank finds 66 per cent of the public are willing ‘to pay more taxes in order to maintain the level of spending needed’ on the NHS.
Fewer people in mental health crisis are being taken to police cells thanks to a scheme which places nurses next to police on the streets.
Adults and children with medical conditions are to benefit from an innovative new research cooperative to be launched in Sheffield.
North Middlesex University Hospital NHS Trust (NMUH) has announced that it has joined the Royal Free London (RFL) group as its clinical partner.
Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust is to deliver immunisations to children and young people in schools across the North East.
The Secretary of State for Health, Jeremy Hunt, commended patient safety on his visit to Medway Maritime Hospital recently.
More than a million people at high risk of type 2 diabetes should be given intensive exercise and weight loss help by the NHS, NICE says.
Unions representing nurses and other NHS staff have written to the chancellor to demand a 3.9 per cent pay rise.
Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh NHS Foundation Trust has been instructed to improve the safety of two services by the CQC.
Clinicians at South Tees Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust have been given €1.6million to trial the effectiveness of osteoporosis equipment.
Nurses at University Hospitals Coventry and Warwickshire NHS Trust have been shortlisted for an award for its blood transfusion app.
Newcastle health researchers have received £1.7million from the British Heart Foundation to lead a new clinical trial.
The Department of Health has announced a new safety organisation that has new legal powers to investigate serious patient safety incidents.
A £10 million investment by NHS SBS has led to 48 NHS organisations signing contracts for a range of finance, procurement and employment services.
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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