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28/11/2016 - 12:35
The BBC has reported that NHS trusts are being paid up to £200,000 annually to advertise personal injury lawyers on patient advice leaflets.
28/11/2016 - 12:15
The Howard League for Penal Reform has raised concern over the rise of suicides taking place in prisons in England and Wales.
28/11/2016 - 11:58
Research conducted by Dr Tamas Szakmany, lead clinical for the South Wales Critical Care Network, has identified variation in the way sepsis is treated across hospitals in Wales.
28/11/2016 - 11:43
Research conducted by Oxford University's Centre for Evidence-Based Medicine has found nearly all add-on treatments offered by UK fertility clinics to increase the chance of conception and birth through IVF are not supported by high quality evidence.
28/11/2016 - 11:21
Twenty areas across England are set to receive a portion of £40 million of NHS England funding to provide more support for pregnant women and new mothers with severe mental health problems.
25/11/2016 - 10:44
According to a report by Pulse, commissioners are considering a move to allow GPs to carry out more urgent home visits, to help reduce A&E pressures, under new NHS England plans.
25/11/2016 - 10:29
New analysis from Cancer Research UK has shown that the rate of oral cancer (cancer of the lips, tongue, mouth, tonsils and the middle part of the throat) has risen by 68 per cent in the UK, over the last two decades.
25/11/2016 - 10:12
Research carried out by the University of York has outlined that the spread of lung cancer in the body is akin to the pattern of collapsed tents adrift in the wind.
25/11/2016 - 09:58
A report on investments in North East Hampshire and Farnham, Surrey Heath and East Berkshire has highlighted that up to £69 million is set to be invested in frontline NHS services in southern England.
25/11/2016 - 09:39
A study conducted by Duke University and published in Science has suggested that being at the bottom of the social class can have a direct affect on the way the body defends itself from ill health.
24/11/2016 - 11:26
Health and social care leaders have condemned Chancellor Phillip Hammond’s Autumn Statement as a missed opportunity to announce new investment in care.
24/11/2016 - 11:05
The Department of Health (DH) has published the latest hospital waiting time statistics showing a rise in hospital waiting times in Northern Ireland.
24/11/2016 - 10:50
A study, published in Current Biology, has suggested predatory bacteria, a bacteria which feeds off other bacteria, could be a new way to fight superbugs.
24/11/2016 - 10:31
A study conducted by Harvard Medical School and St George’s University of London and published in the New England Journal of Medicine has raised concern over findings which indicate that the death rate from abdominal aortic aneurysms more than three times higher in England than in the US.
23/11/2016 - 12:05
Somerset CCG is launching a drive to prevent GPs from prescribing drugs for minor illnesses, with a restriction on products such as throat-sprays, hair removing cream, and coughs and cold remedies.
23/11/2016 - 11:54
Data from the Office for National Statistics (ONS) have shown that the number of excess winter deaths in 2015-16 have halved to 24,000.
23/11/2016 - 10:28
IMNOVID or Pomalidomide, a drug which has been used to help treat patients will blood cancers in Scotland, Wales and Ireland has been given the green light for use in England.
23/11/2016 - 09:57
Cancer Research UK has issued a report warning that pathology department in NHS hospitals around the UK are struggling to cope with rising requests for cancer tests.
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