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27/01/2017 - 14:21
A review of England’s 44 STPs, led by the BMA, has found that claims to save £26 billion are 'unrealistic'.
27/01/2017 - 10:56
Patients with incidental mental health conditions are receiving poor care due to a failure to integrate physical and mental healthcare, a report has claimed.
27/01/2017 - 10:43
Sir Mike Richards, the Care Quality Commission’s Chief Inspector of Hospitals, has announced that he will be retiring this summer.
27/01/2017 - 10:16
A survey of more than 1,000 doctors has found that 41 per cent have fallen asleep at the wheel of their cars after having worked night shifts.
27/01/2017 - 10:06
Doctors have renewed their calls for England to have similar organ-donor rules to the ‘opt-out’ system proving successful in Wales.
27/01/2017 - 09:56
The number of nurses from the European Union coming to the UK to work has dropped significantly, new figures show.
27/01/2017 - 09:39
The Royal College of Surgeons has complained about proposed cost-cutting plans to ration hip and knee replacements to only those with ‘sever pain’.
27/01/2017 - 09:20
Three London mental health trusts have joined forces to boost nurse recruitment, following funding for a nursing development programme.
26/01/2017 - 14:28
A year after the launch of the Scan4Safety project, data has shown how the six selected NHS trusts are leading the world in GS1 standards adoption, improving patient safety and financial efficiency.
26/01/2017 - 10:51
A study conducted by the University of Leeds, University of Oxford and Public Health England (PHE) has found that the main cause of the Clostridium difficile (c.diff) epidemic in 2006, was a result of the overuse of antibiotics.
26/01/2017 - 10:29
New research funded by Cancer Research UK has been announced which will investigate new ways of bringing improved cancer diagnostic tests to GPs, resulting in a quicker more effective cancer diagnosis rate.
26/01/2017 - 10:02
Researchers at Stanford University have designed an artificial intelligence (AI) system which is able to identify skin cancer in photos as accurately as specialist doctors.
26/01/2017 - 09:43
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has told University Hospitals of Leicester NHS Trust which runs Leicester's hospitals, that it must make improvements after it was rated as ‘requires improvement’ following an inspection.
26/01/2017 - 09:29
An audit of the ambulance service in England, carried out by the National Audit Office (NAO), has cautioned that the emergency crews are finding it increasingly difficult to cope amid rising demand, the recruitment crisis and wider NHS pressures.
26/01/2017 - 09:13
A report conducted by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH) has raised concern over the health of children in deprived UK homes.
25/01/2017 - 15:20
Statistics from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that Glasgow has the lowest life expectancy of any region in the UK, with 1,448
25/01/2017 - 14:25
Former Prime Minister David Cameron has called for more funding to be allocated towards dementia research, after being appointed the mew president of Alzheimer's Research UK.
25/01/2017 - 10:07
New guidance from the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE) has proposed that children and young people should be taught the importance of keeping a good general hygiene to tackle antimicrobial resistance.
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