RECENT NEWS

A dedicated team of clinical staff at East Kent Hospitals are using social media to help them care for vulnerable patients.

None of the major political parties is pledging to spend enough money on the NHS in England to close its funding gap, the Nuffield Trust has warned.

Almost two thirds (64%) of adults in Britain think that taxes should be increased as a way of funding the NHS, according to a new poll carried out by independent charity the Health Foundation.

The first high energy proton beam therapy system to be installed in the UK has arrived at The Rutherford Cancer Centre, South Wales.

Phil Walmsley has been appointed as the new director of operations for Weston Area Health NHS Trust.

Bowel Cancer UK, in partnership with the Royal College of Surgeons of England, has announced £500,000 funding for bowel cancer surgical research.

The Royal College of Surgeons (RCS) has called for a review of safety standards in private hospitals.

Patients living with a poorly understood chronic voice disorder which causes involuntary muscle spasms, impairing speech and swallowing, can now receive treatment at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust.

The majority of Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships (STP) are failing to take into account the needs of infants, children and young people, according to a review undertaken by the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health (RCPCH).

England’s chief inspector of hospitals has rated the services provided by Chesterfield Royal Hospital NHS Foundation Trust as ‘good’ following an inspection by the Care Quality Commission in February.

Dr Martin Easter has been appointed chief scientific officer for Hygiena International.

A specialist physiotherapist at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Teaching Hospitals has taken up a new role as a Research Fellow to complement the Trust’s clinical research activities and to help develop the next generation of researchers.

Sir Hugh Taylor has been appointed as the new chair of the Health Foundation.

Almost 80% of members of the Royal College of Nursing have voted to pursue a ballot for UK-wide strike action this summer.

Scientists have published ground-breaking scans of newborn babies’ brains which researchers from all over the world can download and use to study how the human brain develops.

NHS England says hospitals are now returning to normal following last Friday's (12 May 2017) cyber attack, which saw almost 50 Trusts targeted.

NHS Providers has called on politicians to address rapidly growing concerns over the NHS workforce in the general election campaign.

Poverty and low income is seriously affecting the health of UK children according to paediatricians – and any new Government must tackle health inequalities or risk storing up health problems for future generations.

A speacialist NHS centre helping to transform future care for rare disease and cancer patients through the sequencing of a whole genome – or the full blueprint of a person’s DNA – has recruited its 1,000th participant just 16 months after becoming operational.

More than 50% of British people visiting hospitals do not understand how to clean their hands properly, according to a recent YouGov poll.