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Disposable Medical Instruments (DMI) has launched a new website, full of the latest company news and product updates. The site gives visitors the most up to date information about everything DMI has to offer, and outlines the many ways the company can support clients by offering a menu of services including cleanroom packing and EtO sterilisation, with all work carried out at its UK facilities.

Nearly two-thirds of NHS Trust finance directors and more than half of clinical commissioning groups (CCG) finance leads say the quality of patient care in their area has deteriorated over the past year, according to the latest Quarterly Monitoring Report from The King’s Fund.

A national review by the Care Quality Commission (CQC) has found that people from certain groups in society are experiencing poorer quality care at the end of their lives than others because providers and commissioners do not always understand or fully consider their specific needs.

New statistics for 2015/16 published by NHS England show that the number and percentage of patients waiting more than 28 days to have their cancelled operations rescheduled has hit the highest level in a decade. This affects patients who have had their operation cancelled at the last minute due to non-clinical reasons such as beds or staff being unavailable.

An estimated 12.6 million people died as a result of living or working in an unhealthy environment in 2012 – nearly 1 in 4 of total global deaths, according to new estimates from WHO.

A new test to identify patients at risk of sudden cardiac death is being developed by researchers at the University of Leicester and Leicester’s Hopsitals, supported by a £183,000 grant from national charity Heart Research UK.

Almost three million (2,998,273) hospital bed days have been lost between June 2010 and January 2016, at a cost of £910 million, according to a new report by Age UK.

Enrolment has begun in the first of two multinational clinical trials of an intravenously delivered investigational antibody for preventing HIV infection.

The Auditor General has released a report on operating theatres in Wales, and concluded that there is ‘considerable scope to improve theatre utilisation, reduce late starts and minimise cancellations’.

Dr Bill Kirkup CBE has been appointed by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman to lead investigations for some of the most serious and complex cases brought to the Ombudsman by members of the public, such as avoidable harm and deaths.

A new best practice pathway for the use of non-oral treatments in Parkinson’s has been devised by clinicians to make the referral process for these therapies more explicit.

People working in the NHS who raise concerns about the safety or quality of patient care will be supported wherever in the NHS they work, under the new standardised national whistleblowing policy.

Up to 100,000 people in England will be offered places on a nationwide programme to stop them developing Type 2 diabetes. Healthier You: the NHS Diabetes Prevention Programme will start this year with a first wave of 27 areas covering 26 million people, half of the population, and making up to 20,000 places available.

NHS England has launched a healthcare incentive scheme for hospitals, family doctors and other health service providers to prevent the growing problem of antibiotic resistance.

The Government and national leaders need a radical new approach to inspire an NHS workforce that is too often stressed, stretched and disaffected, according to a new report published by the Health Foundation.

Speaking at an event to mark International Women’s Day, a leading surgeon has warned that the quality of care patients receive could be affected – unless society and the medical profession do more to attract women into surgery.

This year’s varied programme at ‘Completing the Picture’ will address the productivity and patient safety challenges that the NHS faces over the next 5 years, and how digital technology and medical devices will be essential in overcoming many of the issues.

A survey of over 200 healthcare professionals working in UK hospitals has revealed that over two thirds (65%) are completely confident or have no concerns about the reputation of the hospital they work in; while 17% of respondents said they were concerned or very concerned about their hospital’s reputation.

Details have been announced for ‘Completing the Picture’ 2016, an annual educational symposium for healthcare professionals who use, manage, maintain or purchase medical devices

The National Performance Advisory Group, a trading division of the East of England Ambulance Service NHS Trust, will be hosting a clinical engineering conference on 13 September 2016, at the Holiday Inn, Stratford upon Avon.