RECENT NEWS

Patients in Swindon with the most serious and rare forms of illness could soon benefit from a pioneering research project that aims to find cures for notoriously hard-to-treat conditions.

Researchers claim to have found a drug that relieves some of the worst symptoms of Alzheimer's disease, without any side effects.

Hospitals in Scunthorpe and Grimsby continue to operate under extreme pressure and the local community is being asked to help by choosing the most appropriate NHS service, which is not always A&E, and refraining from visiting hospital if they are suffering with diarrhoea and/or vomiting, until they have been without symptoms for at least 48 hours.

A specialist renal unit has opened at Frimley Park, making state-of-the-art inpatient kidney care available locally for the first time. The eight-bed unit enables hospital patients to receive dialysis treatment on site rather than face a transfer to another centre.

A piece of clinical training equipment which provides realistic simulations of childbirth is being trialled at Doncaster and Bassetlaw Hospitals.

An initiative run to ease the pressure on local hospitals during the busy winter period has been hailed as a success.

The lives of people with severe asthma in Sheffield and South Yorkshire are being changed for the better by teams of health professionals collaborating to deliver the latest treatments to patients.

Vulnerable patients recovering from hip fracture are facing unacceptable variations in care, warns the Chartered Society of Physiotherapy (CSP)

NHS Innovation Hub, Health Enterprise East (HEE), has announced a partnership with Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Foundation Trust (GOSH), an internationally recognised centre of excellence in child healthcare.

A new service based in West Cumberland Hospital (WCH) Accident & Emergency (A&E) department is working to help people avoid a hospital stay and reduce pressure on health and care services.

Hospital-acquired pressure ulcers – also known as bed sores – on the East and North Hertfordshire NHS Trust’s inpatient wards are now at an all-time low. In 2010, pressure ulcers were reported at the rate of one nearly every day. Just seven years later, one occurs every two weeks (in 2017 there were just 31 cases reported across the whole 12 months).

President Trump sparked strong reactions following a tweet on 5 February in which he stated the National Health Service ‘isn’t working’.

A report published on 31 January by Picker and The King’s Fund has uncovered striking associations between NHS staff and patients’ experiences in hospitals and NHS trusts’ reliance on agency healthcare workers.

On 31 January 2018 the European Commission put forward a proposal to boost cooperation amongst EU Member States for assessing health technology.

England could be the first country in the world to eliminate Hepatitis C, under ambitious plans announced by the NHS.

Researchers from the University of Glasgow have been awarded £875,000 from the Medical Research Council (MRC) to lead a multi-centre, international research project to better understand the cause of brain bleeding (haemorrhaging) in patients who have had a stroke.

The Infection Prevention Society, which represents professionals working in infection prevention and control, is requesting nominations for its annual awards programme.

SafeHeal, an innovator in the field of digestive surgery, has started its first-in-human and CE-mark clinical study of an endoluminal bypass sheath, which it claims has the potential of replacing ostomy.

Patients could find that supplies of their medicines will be disrupted when the UK leaves the EU, according to the Brexit Health Alliance in a briefing paper published today, which is calling on both sides to put patients first.

Patients at The James Cook University Hospital can now undergo hand surgery while they are awake.