RECENT NEWS

British Medical Auctions (BMA) has announced that Founder and CEO Markus Grad will step down from the business after ten years of leadership, innovation and growth.

Theatre teams are being asked to help drive improvements to sustainability, by sharing their insights into the opportunities for reducing waste, associated with procedure packs. The data collected will help contribute to the development of more sustainable solutions.

AfPP’s Annual National Conference 2026 will take place on 7-8 August at Wyboston Lakes Resort in Bedfordshire, bringing together perioperative professionals for two days of learning, insight and shared best practice. For those working across perioperative practice, it offers a valuable opportunity to hear from expert speakers, explore current challenges and developments, and connect with peers from across the profession.

The number of patients in England waiting for an NHS diagnostic test has reached 1.92 million, an 83% increase compared with pre-pandemic levels, according to a new report.

A consultant gastroenterologist from Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust and Professor of Gastroenterology at the University of Sheffield has been elected as the President Elect of the British Society of Gastroenterologists, one of the world’s leading gastroenterology organisations.

New data reveals that e-scooter crashes are causing large numbers of young adults to require reconstructive plastic surgery, with the majority of incidents happening at night-time, and many of the injuries preventable.

​Thousands of men with prostate cancer are to be offered high-powered ‘precision’ radiotherapy on the NHS to target the disease more effectively, helping reduce side-effects and spare them 15 courses of treatment.

In a new report on support for people with, or at risk of, frailty, the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) voices concern that GPs might not be prioritising care for this group, with limited capacity taken up with delivering NHS England’s priorities on improving patients’ access and digital access to general practice.

A group of MPs have called on the government to intervene over what they describe as the “rationing” of continence products across the NHS, warning that thousands of patients are being left without adequate support, and may be costing the health service more in the long run.

A new way of designing antibiotics could support the discovery of new treatments for drug-resistant infections. It could also help revive antibiotics that have lost effectiveness because bacteria have evolved over time to survive the drugs meant to kill them.

A major new national study is launching to transform care for people living with aortic stenosis, a serious heart valve condition that affects tens of thousands of people in the UK. The research will investigate whether two established heart failure medicines can improve recovery after aortic valve replacement, the standard treatment for severe aortic stenosis.

NICE has recommended mirvetuximab soravtansine (also called Elahere and developed by AbbVie) for treating folate receptor-alpha-positive platinum-resistant epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or primary peritoneal cancer. Until recently, there have been limited treatment options for this type of ovarian cancer when it stops responding to standard chemotherapy treatment.

New findings from the landmark FLOW trial, presented at the 63rd ERA Congress, show that once-weekly semaglutide significantly improved health-related quality of life in adults with type 2 diabetes (T2D) and chronic kidney disease (CKD), equivalent to around eight additional days in full health per year.

Men at highest risk of prostate cancer will benefit from research to find the best screening strategy and more treatment choices under a major new £20 million package. A landmark prostate cancer screening trial will be expanded so that for the first time, all eligible Black men will be invited to take part.

A Mount Sinai-led research team has demonstrated that autoimmunity is responsible for the often-debilitating and confounding symptoms of long COVID in a subset of people.

A consultation has begun on draft guidance recommending 4 specialist liver preservation machines for routine NHS use, which could help more of the 600 people in England waiting for a life-saving transplant.

​The chair of the NHS’s groundbreaking new online hospital trust has been named as business leader and former supermarket chief executive John Browett. NHS Online, which will provide virtual specialist care for patients through the NHS App and video consultations, has now been formally established as the Online NHS Trust.

Patients travelling overseas for cosmetic limb lengthening can face serious complications that place additional pressure on NHS services, according to new research published in The Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.

​New data published by the UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) shows a fall in sexually transmitted infections (STIs) in England, with overall diagnoses down 8.3% — a positive sign that system-wide efforts to tackle STIs are making a real difference. Among the most encouraging findings, syphilis diagnoses in gay and bisexual men have fallen to their lowest level since 2016 — an 18.7% decline from 6,349 in 2024 to 5,164 in 2025.

Eastwood Park Training and Mangel Klicks are delighted to announce the formation of a trading partnership for the delivery of high level advanced Clinical Engineering training across the countries of Ghana, Botswana, Nigeria and Mauritius.