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Sheffield Children’s NHS Foundation Trust has successfully gone live with its Electronic Prescribing and Medicines Administration (EPMA) system provided by System C in the Paediatric Critical Care Unit (PCCU).

For the first time, NICE has recommended an innovative new treatment to help stop babies, children and young people who are undergoing cancer treatment from losing their hearing.

Mölnlycke Health Care, a world-leading MedTech company specialising in wound care solutions, announced an investment of USD 8 million in Siren. The healthcare tech company Siren is on a mission to help reduce the risk of diabetic foot ulcers by early detection of potential injuries through temperature-sensing textile technology.

The 5th Annual Operating Theatres show is coming to London on the 11th March 2025 and will tackle some of the biggest challenges facing surgical teams - from the elective surgery backlog, to sustainability.

​The proportion of patients being diagnosed with cancer at an early stage in England has risen to its highest ever level, according to new NHS analysis.

A 'revolutionised' NHS App is among a raft of proposals aimed at giving patients greater power over how and when they receive elective treatment.

As part of a Managed Equipment Service (MES) contract and in collaboration with North Cumbria Integrated Care Trust (NCIC), Ergéa has supported the development of a state-of-the-art endoscopy unit at Cumberland Infirmary in Carlisle.

​In a new paper, published in Nature Reviews Gastroenterology & Hepatology, eight scientists have examined the evidence on using probiotics to restore the gut bacterial community during and after antibiotic treatment.

Giving inexperienced clinicians “just-in-time” training with an expert just before they carry out a procedure boosts their success rate and could improve patient safety, finds a study in The BMJ.

Government advisers and university leaders recently joined the launch of a major new research hub, led by UCL and the University of Cambridge, that aims to harness quantum technology to improve early diagnosis and treatment of disease.

Research published in the Neuron journal could help neurologists prescribe personalised treatment to people living with multiple sclerosis (MS), in the future, after scientists studied more than half a million brain cells.

New legislation is expected to address the research sector’s need for a more efficient, streamlined and adaptable regulatory framework for clinical trials.

Analyses of self-tests for human papillomavirus (HPV) can be used to divide HPV-positive women into three risk groups, according to a new study from Karolinska Institutet and Queen Mary University of London published in PLOS Medicine. This method could be important for enhancing cervical cancer screening.

Whether you reach for the TV controller, or a favourite book, your choice could have implications for your long-term brain health, say researchers at the University of South Australia.

Major investment for hospices has been announced by the government with the aim of ensuring that hospices can continue to deliver high quality end of life care.

East Suffolk and North Essex NHS Foundation Trust will partner with Sodexo to deliver its soft facilities management services across the Trust’s two acute hospitals – Colchester and Ipswich, and community services in East Suffolk and North Essex. These include Aldeburgh, Felixstowe and Harwich Hospitals, and Bluebird Lodge in Ipswich.

​ For the second year running all Nuffield Health hospitals performing joint replacement surgery in England and Wales have been awarded the highest ‘Gold Quality Data Award’ by the National Joint Registry (NJR) for their commitment to patient safety.

A host of the biggest names in medicine have received special recognition as the RCSEd concludes the year.

NHS Trusts are losing millions of pounds to staff sick days, unnecessarily. That’s the message from healthcare leaders at Alder Hey Children’s NHS Trust, University Hospitals of Liverpool Group and analytics firm Strasys, who have joined forces to urge health boards across the country to review their workforce management practices.

An injection given during some asthma and COPD attacks is more effective than the current treatment of steroid tablets, reducing the need for further treatment by 30%.