RECENT NEWS

Making continuity of care an ‘essential requirement’ for GP practices could reduce the risk of a delay in diagnosing serious health conditions, and ease significant pressure on GP’s workload and welfare, says HSSIB’s latest report.

NHS Supply Chain has announced that Michelle Johnson has been appointed as Clinical Executive Director and will be joining the organisation on 4 December 2023.

Surgeons at Guy’s and St Thomas’ opened their operating theatre to health professionals from across the country when they beamed live surgical cases to a prestigious conference.

Taking place at the Hilton Metropole, Birmingham, the IDSc annual conference provided an update on training and competency within the decontamination sector. As part of the commitment to driving improvement and ensuring patient safety, the IDSc has been working hard to address the recommendations of a recent report by the Health Services Safety Investigations Body (HSSIB) on the decontamination of surgical instruments.

Circle Health Group has entered into a new partnership with biotechnical company Contura International. The partnership will see the Arthrosamid injection become available to patients across the UK.

A FREE webinar on the methods used by leading Medical Engineering teams to improve cybersecurity in NHS Trusts is taking place on Tuesday, December 5, 2023 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM GMT.

CMR Surgical (CMR) – the global surgical robotics business – has announced it has entered into a strategic collaboration with Ledidi, a Norwegian software company, to develop a state-of-the-art platform to host CMR's clinical registry, further strengthening CMR’s focus on data-driven clinical practice.

The Radiography Team at the Royal Orthopaedic Hospital is celebrating winning two categories at the Radiology Awards 2023. The team won the Radiology Fellowship of the Year category and the Best NHS Trust for Delivering Radiology Services.

Leeds Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust and Global Healthcare company, Johnson & Johnson MedTech have revealed a new strategic collaboration to drive forward health innovation plans in West Yorkshire.

Careology and Nuffield Health have extended their partnership to provide people undergoing cancer treatment access to advanced digital cancer care technology at 12 Nuffield Health hospitals across the UK.

A new report conducted by the office of Baroness Bennett of Manor Castle has gone live shedding light on the issue of under delivery of antibiotics when administered via an IV administration set and the role this plays in the global AMR crisis. The findings demonstrate how residual volume of antibiotic that remains in the line of the IV administration set can result in patients receiving an under delivery of up to 30% of the prescribed dose, leading to possible resistance within patients owing to the accumulative effect.

The NHS is to expand the use of a research platform behind the roll-out of new COVID-19 treatments to help drive life-saving advances for other major diseases.

Thousands of men’s lives could be saved, as a major new prostate cancer screening trial is set to get under way in the UK, backed by £42 million from the government and Prostate Cancer UK.

Brandon Medical, a UK-based medical technology company, and Device Technologies, a medical solutions provider across Asia Pacific, have announced their collaborative venture to introduce cutting-edge medical equipment to Australia, New Zealand, and South East Asia.

The Institute of Decontamination Sciences conference and exhibition will take place on 28-29 November 2023 at the Hilton Birmingham Metropole Hotel - a must attend event for all healthcare professionals that have day-to-day operational responsibilities for medical device decontamination.

The NHS has pledged to eliminate cervical cancer by 2040. Speaking at NHS Providers’ annual conference, NHS chief executive Amanda Pritchard outlined how the health service can achieve the goal by making it as easy as possible for people to get the lifesaving Human Papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and increasing cervical screening uptake. England is among the first countries in the world to set this elimination ambition within the next two decades.

The loss of a dedicated National Cancer Control Plan in England and Wales has been a “major misstep” at a time when the NHS is facing massive workforce shortages and cancer services have struggled to recover after the COVID-19 pandemic, caution leading cancer experts in a Policy Review published in The Lancet Oncology.

New analysis from the Royal College of Nursing warns that the government’s target to recruit 50,000 nurses to the workforce to tackle the crisis facing the NHS is 'inadequate'.

Health services across the UK must adapt to rapid changes in how doctors are choosing to progress their careers, the General Medical Council (GMC) has commented in a new report.

Artificial intelligence (AI) is being rolled out to help identify patients at risk of needing to go to hospital, so that community NHS teams can get to them first and reduce pressures on A&Es.