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Health and Social Care Secretary, Wes Streeting, has ordered a full and independent investigation into the state of the NHS, to uncover the extent of the issues facing the nation’s health service. Mr Streeting says he wants a ‘raw and honest’ assessment that will deliver ‘the hard truths’.

A leading NHS Trust chair recently joined healthcare leaders to debate how data has helped break the cycle of past people management, as a route to improving productivity and performance.

Labour is returning to power with a huge parliamentary majority, following a landslide general election victory. Central to the new government’s agenda is the future of the NHS. The Labour party’s campaign stated that it has “saved the NHS before” and it “will do so again”.

Twelve years ago, cancer researchers at University of California San Diego identified a molecule that helps cancer cells survive by shuttling damaging inflammatory cells into tumour tissue. In new research, they show that the same molecule does the same thing in lung tissue infected with COVID-19 — and that the molecule can be suppressed with a repurposed cancer drug.

A teenager who is the first patient to take part in a UCL-sponsored clinical trial to use deep brain stimulation (DBS) to treat epilepsy has seen his daytime seizures reduce by 80%.

BIOHIT OYJ has announced that its GastroPanel Quick Test NT has been nominated as the best new clinical diagnostic product in the prestigious SelectScience Scientists’ Choice Awards. This nomination celebrates how this breakthrough diagnostic test is transforming gastroscopy workflows by swiftly triaging patients at the point of care.

Once again, EBME Expo has continued to shine a light on the vital contribution that clinical engineers have in ensuring patient safety, efficient healthcare delivery, and uptime of medical technologies. This year’s Expo proved to be yet another successful event – attracting large numbers of clinical engineers, healthcare professionals and procurement managers, to the Coventry Building Society Arena.

Dementia risk factors associated with cardiovascular health may have increased over time compared to factors such as smoking and having less education, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

A more accurate way to scan for tuberculosis (TB) has been developed by UK and US researchers, using positron emission tomography (PET).

​A team at Lawson Health Research Institute is the first in Canada to perform a transplant using a technique called abdominal normothermic regional perfusion (A-NRP), which could lead to more organs being available for transplant.

The Steriwave nasal photodisinfection, developed by Canadian life sciences company Ondine Biomedical, is now available through the NHS Supply Chain, making it significantly easier for NHS hospitals in England and Wales to purchase.

Healthcare workers in the North East recently attended a seminar with a difference – as one of the world’s leading pain scientists and its most renowned pain educator, Professor Lorimer Moseley, hosted an event in a Newcastle comedy club.

To bring complex interventional procedures in-house and increase patient throughput, Forth Valley Royal Hospital has installed the Alphenix Sky+, making it the first hospital in Scotland to benefit from Canon Medical’s most advanced ceiling-mounted imaging system, placing it at the cutting edge of diagnostic innovation

Medexs UK, a leading innovator of ultra clean ventilation systems and air handling units for hospital operating theatres and healthcare facilities, has announced the appointment of Tom Ford as the new General Manager, effective June 2024.

A health provider in Devon that introduced point-of-care testing (POCT) for patients presenting with an acute sore throat suspected to be Streptococcus A (Strep A), found that up to 65% of those who would have been ordinarily prescribed antibiotics did not actually require them.

Millions of women are being urged to come forward for cervical screening as figures show a third of eligible under 50s didn’t take up the potentially lifesaving offer.

​Spire Healthcare has been recognised for its commitment to excellence in high-quality CPR training.

CSJ and BIOHIT HealthCare are pleased to announce an upcoming webinar on the Current and future trends in inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) therapeutic drug monitoring (TDM), which will take place on the 3rd of July at 12:30-1:30pm BST.

The UK government’s failure to fortify all flour and rice with the vitamin folic acid “will result in more deaths and birth defects every year that could have been prevented,” argues Professor Sir Nicholas Wald in The BMJ.

Patients with pancreatic cancer who received chemotherapy both before and after surgery experienced longer survival rates than would be expected from surgery followed by chemotherapy, according to a new study from researchers at Yale Cancer Center (YCC) and Yale School of Medicine.