RECENT NEWS

Doctors and surgeons of tomorrow can now spend dedicated time entirely focussing on their skills in endoscopy, thanks to the introduction of a new training programme at Heartlands Hospital, part of University Hospitals Birmingham NHS Foundation Trust (UHB).

A new modelling study, published in 'The Lancet HIV' journal, highlights the alarming potential impact of significant reductions in international funding for HIV prevention and treatment programmes.

CHEC, a community healthcare provider delivering specialist services in partnership with the NHS, is celebrating the completion of its first cataract surgery training initiative for NHS registrars.

​The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP) has announced the 'AfPP Robotics Symposium – Advancing Surgical Innovation: The Future of Robotics in Healthcare', a premier event dedicated to exploring the transformative role of robotics in modern surgery.

State-of-the-art robotic surgery to improve treatment for gynaecological conditions is helping to accelerate the vital bridging of the gender health gap, insists a formal NHS partner. InnoScot Health believes that the enhanced precision and minimally invasive approach of robotic-assisted surgery (RAS) is “proving particularly effective for improving gender equity in the accessibility of surgery” with gynaecology being a much-needed beneficiary.

Patients across Kent are set to benefit from a groundbreaking digital transformation aimed at improving prehabilitation and elective recovery.

The UK Health Security Agency (UKHSA) has published its view on the pathogen families that could pose the greatest risk to public health, in a bid to focus and guide preparedness efforts against these threats.

People living with dementia are set to benefit from government-backed research designed to help them live more independently in their own homes.

​Skills for Health, the sector skills council for healthcare, has launched a new quality assurance audit service to replace its long running Quality Mark programme.

A technique to improve the precision of prostate cancer surgery means that almost twice as many men preserve their erectile function compared to those undergoing standard surgery, according to results from a clinical trial led by researchers from UCL and UCLH.

Three third-year Operating Department Practitioner (ODP) students from Sheffield Hallam University have embarked on a three-week work placement with The Association for Perioperative Practice (AfPP). The placement provides them with a unique opportunity to gain insight into the professional body that supports perioperative practitioners across the UK.

A new government initiative to send top doctors to support hospital Trusts in areas where more people are out of work and waiting for treatment is cutting waiting lists faster, new data shows.

Guy’s and St Thomas’ NHS Foundation Trust has formed a strategic partnership with US healthcare organisation Cedars-Sinai. The partnership between the leading academic medical institutions aims to combine expertise in patient care, leading edge research and medical innovation.

EMS Healthcare has supplied state-of-the-art mobile research units that are set to break down barriers to health and care research participation in two coastal regions of England.

Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust is to feature in an episode of BBC Panorama highlighting examples of innovation which improve patient experience and care while also alleviating pressures in the NHS.

New research to be presented at this year’s European Congress on Obesity (ECO 2025, Malaga, Spain, 11-14 May) shows that people with obesity at similar BMIs display significant differences in body composition in different body compartments according to their age group, such as higher body fat especially in central regions and lower muscle mass in arms and legs.

A t-shirt that monitors a patient’s vitals after urological surgery for cancer could help people return from hospital sooner to recover at home. The device, worn for around two weeks under clothes for three-hour windows each day, enabled patients to feel safer and more reassured than a control group in a pilot study of 70 individuals.

The NHS in England is increasingly relying on workers from countries with significant healthcare staffing shortages since EU recruitment became more difficult post-Brexit, instead of training and retaining enough domestic staff. Medicines companies are also warning of drug shortages more often.

A phase I clinical trial for a ground-breaking therapeutic innovation against respiratory infections has begun at the Clinical Investigation Centre of the Academic Hospital of Tours, France. The drug ‘FLAMOD’ is a treatment which aims to stimulate the body’s own defences rather than directly target the bacteria.

Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust has announced the acquisition of Health Call Solutions. Health Call, which provides the patient engagement platform (PEP) for five North-East acute Trusts, will become the first PEP supplier to be majority-owned by a single NHS provider.