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01/02/2017 - 10:34
The British Heart Foundation (BHF) has warned that an estimated 620,000 people in the UK have a faulty gene that puts them at risk of developing coronary heart disease or sudden death.
01/02/2017 - 10:14
A report by the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) has concluded that the system for retrieving costs from overseas patients is ‘chaotic’ and has called for more to be done to recover the money.
01/02/2017 - 09:55
Patients with advanced forms of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, meaning they have no control over their body, have finally been able to communicate, with the help of a brain-computer interface.
01/02/2017 - 09:33
Worcestershire Acute Hospitals NHS Trust has been told it must make improvement to its services, following a warning notice by the Care Quality Commission (CQC).
01/02/2017 - 09:12
NHS Borders has abandoned a £1.87 million plan to relocate a Galashiels mental health rehabilitation unit to a former care home in Hawick.
31/01/2017 - 11:37
NICE has advised that routine appointments with family doctors can prevent falls, disability and loss of independence for the elderly.
31/01/2017 - 11:28
Cold snacks will return to the menus at Shropshire’s two acute hospitals after the trust sourced a new supplier.
31/01/2017 - 11:04
Outdated systems and disk failures were at fault for the IT failures at Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust from September last year.
31/01/2017 - 10:43
New technology is being piloted at the Countess of Chester Hospital to speed up the time it takes for neurology patients to be seen by a specialist
31/01/2017 - 10:13
Statistics from NHS England show that the number of patients placed in mixed-sex wards in England has risen by almost 70 per cent in the last year.
31/01/2017 - 09:54
Doctors have warned that a key malaria treatment has failed for the first time in patients being treated in the UK.
30/01/2017 - 11:56
Denmark's Novo Nordisk is set to invest £115 million in creating a new diabetes research centre in Oxford, with funding to span over 10 years.
30/01/2017 - 11:07
The Royal College of Midwives (RCM) has called on the NHS Pay Review Body to break the government’s policy of public sector pay restraint.
30/01/2017 - 10:54
The Royal College of General Practitioners (RCGP) has welcomed the launch of the NHS GP Health Service, a free and confidential service designed to improve access to mental health support for GPs and trainees who may be suffering from mental ill-health and addiction.
30/01/2017 - 10:42
Research from the European Cancer Congress has identified that UK prices for generic cancer drugs have risen sharply in the past five years, restricting some NHS patients from accessing treatments.
30/01/2017 - 10:13
Researchers from Middlesex University and the University of Bedfordshire are set to assist in building personal social robots which can be pre-programmed to suit the person they are aiding.
30/01/2017 - 09:55
The Medicines and Healthcare Regulatory Agency (MHRA) has launched a ‘Week of Action’ aimed at increasing awareness of unlicensed medicines which contain DMAA, a dietary supplement used as a pre-workout stimulant.
27/01/2017 - 15:00
New figures released by NHS England have shown that a total of 4,093 urgent procedures were cancelled in England last year.
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