RECENT NEWS

National charity Kidney Cancer UK has published the results of its 12th annual patient survey, revealing the stark reality of a kidney cancer diagnosis in the UK. The findings of the report show that one in five (20%) kidney cancer patients are now diagnosed at the most advanced stage of the disease, reflecting the growing mortality rate over recent decades, increasing by 73% since the 1970s.

The Central Sterilising Club (CSC) will consider risk at its Annual Scientific Conference. This year’s Kelsey Lecturer is Professor Didier Pittet. As WHO’s global ambassador for “Clean Care is Safe Care,” he led on the adoption of alcohol-based hand hygiene across the world. But how safe is safe care when applied to decontamination practice?

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) says that the government has failed to tackle the issue of clinical negligence – despite repeated warnings for over two decades.

​Artificial intelligence (AI)-supported mammography identifies more cancers during screening and reduces the rate of breast cancer diagnosis by 12% in the years following, finds the first randomised controlled trial of its kind involving over 100,000 Swedish women published in The Lancet journal.

​Nuffield Health and GE HealthCare have launched a major new diagnostic hub at Nuffield Health The Manor Hospital in Oxford. Equipped with the latest generation of imaging technology from GE HealthCare, the hub will expand access to provide faster, more accurate and advanced diagnostics for people from the local community.

A team led by researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden, has succeeded in identifying biomarkers for Parkinson’s disease in its earliest stages, before extensive brain damage has occurred.

​NHS England has announced it is to lower the threshold for a home-screening kit to trigger urgent cancer testing from February 2026, with the NHS checking thousands more people identified with even smaller traces of blood in their stool samples.

Cancer scientists at City St George’s, University of London have made a groundbreaking discovery of a new ‘molecular signature’, which drives drug resistance in an aggressive type of breast cancer known as HER2-positive breast cancer.

The NHS is committed to ‘making the patient king’ - but how person centred is the health service in England? A new report by Picker brings together, for the first time, the findings from the national patient and staff experience programmes it is commissioned to deliver, on behalf of the Care Quality Commission and NHS England.

Alzheimer Europe has launched the “The Prevalence of Dementia in Europe 2025” report, which provides updated prevalence figures for the number of people living with dementia both for Europe as a whole, as well as individual countries.

Doctors may soon be able to tell just how sick a heart failure patient really is by using a routine MRI scan, thanks to new research from the University of East Anglia.

Specialist medical equipment provider, Central Medical Supplies (CMS), has appointed David Good to the newly created position of National Sales Manager. In his new role, David will be responsible for leading and coaching the CMS sales team, which operates throughout the UK.

Patients facing suspected lung cancer could get answers sooner under a new NHS pilot using artificial intelligence and robotic technology to help doctors reach hard-to-detect cancers earlier, with fewer invasive tests.

A fresh Scottish Government pledge that ‘innovation will have a pivotal role in ensuring women and girls have access to the best quality care’ has been backed by a health innovation specialist.

The Government has announced that it is taking action to make it easier for people living in rural and coastal communities to see a cancer specialist, as part of plans to tackle the current postcode lottery.

The UK Health Security Agency and Sleep Cycle have announced the beginning of a 12-week research collaboration to understand if privacy-preserved data collected through a sleep app can support traditional respiratory disease surveillance systems and early detection of respiratory virus patterns.

As sustainability targets and financial pressures continue to reshape operating theatres and sterile services, Surgical Holdings Academy is hosting a free webinar that will critically examine the true cost of sterilisation containers. The online session, titled “Containers: Circular Economy or False Economy?”, will take place on Thursday 29 January 2026, from 12:00–13:00 GMT.

The UK has some of the worst health outcomes for young children in Europe. But a new report by the Health and Social Care Committee says that improving access to health visitors and Family Hubs, while boosting vaccine uptake could help improve the lives of infants in England.

A toxin secreted by cholera bacteria can inhibit the growth of colorectal cancer without causing any measurable damage to the body. This is shown by a new study by researchers at Umeå University, Sweden.

Researchers from Helmholtz Munich and the Technical University of Munich (TUM) have developed “fast-RSOM”, a new imaging technology that can capture detailed images of the smallest blood vessels directly through the skin – without the need for invasive procedures.