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University Hospital Southampton (UHS) has become the first NHS trust in the UK to implant a novel device to treat patients with severe acid reflux disease using robotic surgery.

The next government must make halving the 18-year healthy life expectancy gap part of a commitment to improve the health of the nation, the leader of the NHS Confederation has said.

Researchers from King’s, with doctors at King’s College Hospital NHS Foundation Trust, have successfully used a new robot system to improve treatment for debilitating eye disease.

NHS Trusts are determined to do everything they can to help health services to be even more productive but need support from government and national bodies to unlock their full potential for improvement, NHS Providers have said.

Surgeons are calling on the next Government to commit to a £6.4 billion annual funding increase to upgrade NHS facilities to reduce NHS waiting lists to pre-pandemic level. The call comes as NHS performance data shows the waiting list for consultant-led hospital treatment in England rose to 7,572,563.

​NHS staff continue to face significant demand for urgent care, with new figures showing that A&Es in England managed their busiest ever month for attendances in May.

Following a decade of developments, and entries from more than 250 teams around the world, the £8m Longitude Prize on AMR has been awarded by Challenge Works (part of innovation agency Nesta) to the PA-100 AST System from Sysmex Astrego.

​Kidneys play a critical role in overall health by removing waste products from the blood. When they fail to sufficiently filter out foreign elements, several serious, life threatening medical conditions can result. A new study suggests that chronic kidney disease may also be linked with tooth loss.

The British Thoracic Society (BTS) has published a Position Statement on Sustainability and the Environment: Climate Change and Lung Health, which sets out the Society’s stance on how the impact of climate change and the carbon footprint of respiratory healthcare can be assessed, reduced and mitigated.

Over half a million (549,000) more people in England have been identified by the NHS as being at risk of developing type 2 diabetes in a year, NHS figures show.

The Royal College of Radiologists (RCR) has published its 2023 clinical radiology and clinical oncology workforce census reports, which reveal dangerous shortages of doctors essential in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer, and other conditions including stroke.

A new community diagnostic centre (CDC) has been completed by MTX at Clatterbridge Hospital on Merseyside using modern methods of construction to deliver the project faster, greener, safer and more cost effectively.

The Association of British HealthTech Industries (ABHI) is set to welcome several of the UK’s leading HealthTech innovators on a major trade visit to Florida this week, as part of its flagship US Accelerator programme.

94% of doctors responding to a Medical Defence Union (MDU) survey say they want political parties to include plans in their manifestos to support the health and wellbeing of the NHS workforce.

BIOHIT HealthCare is attending BSG LIVE'24 at ICC Birmingham from the 17th to the 20th of June, where it will be showcasing its broad range of gastrointestinal diagnostic solutions, as well as hosting an educational symposium.

England’s top doctor has backed calls from NHS Blood and Transplant (NHSBT) for O Positive and O Negative blood donors to urgently book appointments to donate in one of the 25 town and city centre NHS Blood Donor Centres in England, to boost stocks of O type blood following a cyber incident in London.

Three quarters of family doctors are experiencing debilitating moral distress because they cannot access medicines they know their patients need, a new survey has found.

Surgitrac has unveiled its new and improved website, redesigned to provide a more dynamic, informative, and responsive online platform – where customers can learn more about the manufacturer of single-use and reusable, ophthalmic surgical instruments and procedure packs.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA), together with public health agencies in Scotland, Northern Ireland and Wales, are investigating an increase in the number of Shiga toxin-producing E.coli (STEC) cases in the UK in recent weeks.

An immunotherapy drug given before surgery instead of chemotherapy meant that significantly more patients with a certain genetic profile were cancer free after surgery, according to clinical trial results presented by researchers at UCL and UCLH.