RECENT NEWS

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.

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.