RECENT NEWS

Almost half of all hip fracture patients in England are being denied NICErecommended pain relief as part of their care, audit results reveal.

Details of Completing the Picture 2014, the annual educational symposium for biomedical engineering and clinical procurement specialists in the UK, have been announced by Welch Allyn.

Statins may provide a new weapon to slow the progression of multiple sclerosis (MS). In a two-year trial, the drug simvastatin slowed brain shrinkage.

Smiths Medical has launched a new website for its Level 1 Hotline Blood and Fluid Warmer.

Researchers have found that low levels of sodium, known as hyponatremia, prior to transplantation does not increase the risk of death following liver transplant.

Lung cancer rates in women have risen by 73% over the last 40 years according to recently released Cancer Research UK figures.

Maquet and Pulsion have announced a collaboration to distribute the EIRUS continuous glucose and lactate monitoring solution in Europe.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) believes that the proposals to introduce a criminal sanction for wilful neglect will lead to large numbers of doctors being investigated.

According to survey findings from Healthwatch England, 18% of people admit to having knowingly used A&E for a non-emergency at some point in their lives.

According to research undertaken by the British Medical Association (BMA) public health consultants and trainees believe that the recent health reforms have failed to benefit the public’s health and more than half of specialists have considered leaving the profession.

A study led by the University of Greenwich shows that patients in intensive care units (ICUs) have a better chance of survival if there are more doctors and nurses working on the unit.

A new discovery suggests that, in the future, it may be possible to chemically reprogram and repair damaged nerves after spinal cord injury or brain trauma.

Doctors discussed the barriers that exist to delivering quality care, at the What’s A Doctor Worth? BMA event which was undertaken to inform contract negotiations.

The implementation of the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) in the NHS has had an adverse impact on training in certain medical specialties, including surgeons and doctors working in acute medicine, says an independent taskforce, commissioned by the Government.

The Public Accounts Committee has published its 46th Report on emergency admissions to hospital and chronic shortage of specialist A&E consultants. The results show that there is no clear strategy in place for tackling a lack of A&E specialists.

Surgeons and healthcare professionals in Wales are concerned over a lack of funding for bariatric surgery and obesity treatments across the country, despite the launch of an all-Wales strategy more than three years ago.

Technology that gives instant alerts about patients to healthcare staff, and allows them to communicate over a secure social network, has transformed how teams work and has significantly improved patient care, according to Dr Michael Bedford, a renal research registrar at East Kent Hospitals University NHS Trust (EKHUFT).

Bowel Cancer UK has highlighted a lack of surveillance screening and is calling for this to be addressed to ensure early detection of the disease, particularly for younger people who are at higher risk of bowel cancer.

An independent review has concluded that healthcare organisations, including hospitals and GP practices, need to embrace a new culture of candour so that patients and their families are told honestly about any harm that has been caused and what will be done to put it right,.

New research quantifying the risk of admission to hospital for self-harm has identified a raised risk of self-harm among groups of patients with certain physical illnesses.