RECENT NEWS

A scheme that has helped keep more than 1000 nurses, midwives and other clinicians in the NHS will be rolled out to cover staff working in general practice as well as hospitals, according to NHS England.

National charity, Mesothelioma UK, has awarded a grant for £25,000 for research that explores clinical decision-making in treatment pathways for mesothelioma patients at Oxford University Hospitals, Royal Berkshire, and Buckinghamshire NHS Foundation Trusts.

One in three people in England, 21 million, are set to further benefit from improved health and care, as three new areas were announced as ‘integrated care systems‘ (ICS).

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has been named the national winner of the NHS Future Award at the NHS Parliamentary Awards at the House of Commons on Wednesday 10 July 2019.

Independent multi-disciplinary organisation The Bowel Interest Group is organising a national webinar on Bowel Independence Day (10th July 2019) to communicate clinical best practice and recommended pathways on the taboo issue of bowel dysfunction.

The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) has taken another step in supporting UK HealthTech companies do business in the US. Following its 2017 launch, the ABHI US Accelerator will be expanded to support 30 companies drive their operations in the US.

Nurses who are helping patients at the end of life that arrive at the emergency department get home for a dignified death were crowned winners of the Emergency Nursing award at a prestigious UK nursing ceremony.

The London Clinic, a private hospital and charity on London’s Harley Street, is the first and only UK hospital to participate in a landmark international phase 3 clinical trial of a treatment called intraoperative radiotherapy (IORT) for glioblastoma multiforme, a brain cancer with a high mortality rate.

The world-famous Nobel Prize winner Malala Yousafzai opened this year’s British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) conference in Birmingham with an address aimed at inspiring women maxillofacial surgeons.

A 10-year-old girl who suffered a stroke is the youngest person to receive life-saving surgery using a newly installed state-of-the-art imaging system in the Interventional Radiology suite at Addenbrooke’s Hospital.

Camstent, the company applying proprietary bacteria-phobic polymer coatings to medical devices, has announced the appointment of Mark Harwood as CEO. Mark is a respected figure with an exceptional track record in the medical device sector.

The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) has announced it will be taking key members of its senior leadership team to Medica 2019, in a bid to offer knowledge, expertise and support to all of its UK exhibitors.

A new wound care product is said to be the first wound dressing created from wood-based nanofibrillar cellulose to receive regulatory approval and be awarded a CE mark.

The British Association of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgeons (BAOMS) has welcomed new study findings from the two-year Cancer Research UK-funded study in Scotland that the HPV vaccination for boys may substantially reduce head and neck cancer.

A recently-opened unit at Poole Hospital – which provides an outpatient alternative to inpatient care – has helped improve patient service in the seven months since it opened.

A report published by the General Medical Council (GMC) identifies some of the factors likely to account for the disproportionate referrals of black, Asian and minority ethnic (BAME) doctors to fitness to practise procedures.

​Cantel and Lyngsoe Systems have won a seven-year contract to supply NHS Lothian with new software to help manage and track sterile assets across the Health Board.

Lec Medical is delighted to announce that it has transferred its UK manufacturing site from Buckley in North Wales, to a purpose-built facility at the main Glen Dimplex Headquarters in Prescot, Merseyside.

A new breakthrough test offering a potentially more convenient and less invasive way to diagnose adrenal insufficiency - a decrease in cortisol production - is to be pioneered in a clinical trial at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

Research by Transforming Healthcare Consultancy (THC) has revealed that 25% of NHS Acute Trusts are not compliant with standards that ensure that Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are fit-for-purpose and user-friendly.